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DrGonzo · Post by **DrGonzo** » Fri Oct 09, 2015 7:56 am

jsp1979 wrote:
Honestly, that pic looks like a mess. It looks like a design I would come up with...and that's far from a compliment.

Geist is one of my favourite plugins ever, but this looks like a horrible mess. I dearly hope that this is not the end result. This MUST be a fake.

/C

samsam · Post by **samsam** » Fri Oct 09, 2015 8:29 am

sugo wrote:
Muziksculp wrote:Shouldn't this topic be posted under the 'Instruments' Section of the forum ?

Maybe a moderator can move it.
Why?
I put em here, because its a sequenzer!

Every synth with a sequencer is a Host? belongs in Instruments with all thre other Geist posts,

Man, that is a f**king hideous GUI.

Hank the Knife · Post by **Hank the Knife** » Fri Oct 09, 2015 8:41 am

GUI is half empty and half cluttered. Most bizarre GUI I've ever seen in that aspect.

auron · Post by **auron** » Fri Oct 09, 2015 9:26 am

I am not interested in a beautiful gui, but what bothers me most are those tiny knobs like s1,s2 in the mixer page and additionally the whole gui looks cluttered as well. Actually in Geistv1 and Dcam Synth Squad there are those tiny things as well, i don't know why fxpansion often puts so much effort into possibilites of a plugin and on the other side neglects gui and , whats even worse, the updates.

Bathrobe · Post by **Bathrobe** » Fri Oct 09, 2015 10:14 am

You should have seen the first skins of Strobe 2. Equally hideous.
I´m sure the finished version of Geist2 will be beautiful.

I just hope that it will be scaleable by mousedrag and Mac Retina optimized.

sugo · Post by **sugo** » Fri Oct 09, 2015 11:07 am

samsam wrote:
sugo wrote:
Muziksculp wrote:Shouldn't this topic be posted under the 'Instruments' Section of the forum ?

Maybe a moderator can move it.
Why?
I put em here, because its a sequenzer!
Every synth with a sequencer is a Host? belongs in Instruments with all thre other Geist posts,

Man, that is a f**king hideous GUI.

Anyway

emef · Post by **emef** » Fri Oct 09, 2015 11:17 am

i'm surprised at all the GUI hate here, i think it looks great
guess i must be one of those terrible fxpansion fanboys i keep reading about

samsam · Post by **samsam** » Fri Oct 09, 2015 11:23 am

Oh look, thread's turned up in the instruments section. That'll confuse people, what with Geist being best known as a sequencer-cum-audio editor.

Dasheesh · Post by **Dasheesh** » Fri Oct 09, 2015 11:31 am

Love the new minimalist look they are shooting for but it's too busy. There is too much on the screen to have to shift through. Only what you are working on should be in the window. Tuck all those tabs and windows you are not working on out of sight, but they still have to be easy to get too. Maybe on a second page. Somehow you need to be able to grab what you want to work on and bring it into the workspace with out all the rest of the clutter. That's the problem. When I choose an engine or pad or parameter or what ever it is I want to work on, the rest of that clutter has to go away somewhere where I can just come and go through workspaces as I please. It's too cluttered...and then to have that minimal approach with all that clutter on screen feels forced. Maybe when you choose what you are working on it blows up into fullscreen and then you can send it back and forth through workspaces if that makes sense. I'm no expert, just giving what I would like to see in version 2.

Wopelka · Post by **Wopelka** » Fri Oct 09, 2015 11:45 am

So so about the GUI. But far more important as far as I'm concerned, what are the expected new features?

sinkmusic · Post by **sinkmusic** » Fri Oct 09, 2015 11:51 am

transmod.

reusenoise · Post by **reusenoise** » Fri Oct 09, 2015 12:25 pm

These is the GUI every drum machine should have (imho)

Kinh · Post by **Kinh** » Fri Oct 09, 2015 12:44 pm

deastman wrote:I'm going to withhold judgment until this is released. I never really ended up getting much use out of Geist 1. I bought Ableton Live shortly after buying Geist, and it has a good enough native workflow that I've never really felt the need to go back into Geist at all.

Thank you for this comment. As an Ableton user I was gonna buy Geist. You've just saved me $250.

ENV1 · Post by **ENV1** » Fri Oct 09, 2015 1:18 pm

Im sure you will see this kind of UI more and more. People want 'scalable vector UIs', its hot, its new, new sells, so there you go.

Unfortunately the whole thing has a flaw: Things have to be kept simple so the up- and downscaling process doesnt make the UI look like a blurry mess. The result is unicolors and simple shapes everywhere, otherwise the UI might not be able to 'survive' the scaling process without the whole thing looking like crap on sizes other than 'native'.

To be honest; i wouldnt do that. I much prefer the attractiveness of a UI that is made using static images that can be as complex as i wish them to be in terms of both colors and shape. As a developer that has to take increasingly extreme screen resolution differences into account i would therefore not go vector, but instead offer my UI in 3 fixed sizes (small/medium/large) so that it can be used on all screens without having to make quality compromises in the 'looks' department.

Lotuzia · Post by **Lotuzia** » Fri Oct 09, 2015 1:28 pm

reusenoise wrote:These is the GUI every drum machine should have (imho)
......

It all depends on what you can do with the drum machine actually. If it has a sequencer, or not. More or less advanced synthesis. Btw wich synthesis method ? Display samples waveforms, loops, slices, or not ? Interactive and live playing abilities, or not ? And a myriad of other things. Really, things are not always so simple that there's an universal answer for everything.

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