KVR Audio

kinwie · Post by **kinwie** » Tue Oct 25, 2016 2:00 pm

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Tue Oct 25, 2016 2:03 pm

fmr · Post by **fmr** » Tue Oct 25, 2016 2:06 pm

shroom81 wrote:This skin for Diva is the best!

Looks great

Is it available in the usual repository?

DJErmac · Post by **DJErmac** » Tue Oct 25, 2016 2:08 pm

Orbit-50 wrote:
I also always love firing up Largo. I really love the classy pencil sketch theme of this plugin. Easy on the eyes and kind of trippy compared to the average plugin. Joy to use.

I forgot this one because I don't own a licence for it, but this is indeed one of the best GUI I know.

DJ Warmonger · Post by **DJ Warmonger** » Tue Oct 25, 2016 2:09 pm

thecontrolcentre wrote:

+1 to LuSH. That is, in large mode, otherwise it's difficult to read some labels.

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Tue Oct 25, 2016 2:10 pm

DJErmac wrote:
Orbit-50 wrote:
I also always love firing up Largo. I really love the classy pencil sketch theme of this plugin. Easy on the eyes and kind of trippy compared to the average plugin. Joy to use.
I forgot this one because I don't own a licence for it, but this is indeed one of the best GUI I know.

Yep. Also, because the important modulation options are right in the respective sections, and not somewhere hidden in the matrix. U-he synths do feature that too though, and it makes working really fast.

e@rs · Post by **e@rs** » Tue Oct 25, 2016 4:26 pm

fmr wrote:
shroom81 wrote:This skin for Diva is the best!

Looks great Is it available in the usual repository?

You have to buy it.

electro · Post by **electro** » Tue Oct 25, 2016 4:34 pm

shroom81 wrote:This skin for Diva is the best!

The Volta skin is great.

Another great GUI is the original L1 from Waves.

Cinebient · Post by **Cinebient** » Tue Oct 25, 2016 4:39 pm

https://s17.postimg.org/d0224a0xb/settings.png
Sausage Fattener....

Jace-BeOS · Post by **Jace-BeOS** » Tue Oct 25, 2016 4:49 pm

.jon wrote:
Jace-BeOS wrote:
layzer wrote:
Jace-BeOS wrote:I'm happy to see no representation from the "flat and minimal" camp
you mean the pre-school friendly, after thought, rough draft is sufficient ones?
Yes. There are a ton of GUIs like that on mobile. Some vectorial GUIs on mobile are usable, but most look like copy/paste from everyone else. There's no distinctiveness. A few have such a usable set of controls and/or brilliant utility that I will buy it and enjoy it fine enough (like Fugue Machine), but I actually decided I wouldn't purchase any apps with GUIs that feel like a mockery of everything humanity should've learned by now of UI design.
Almost all fake 3D GUIs look much worse, but your opinion is common for those who have learned nothing of UI design.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha...

Jace-BeOS · Post by **Jace-BeOS** » Tue Oct 25, 2016 4:56 pm

rod_zero wrote:Yeah, skeumorphism is the one that goes against good UI most of the time.

Maybe you should do some reading on what skeumorphism is. http://gizmodo.com/skeuomorphism-will-n ... 1642089313

Skeumorphism has a place and is often necessary. It can be done well or done badly. Even in Apple's ugly post-6-iOS, skeumorphism is plenty present (just because it's not photorealistic doesn't mean it isn't skeumorphism).

Eliminating skeumorphism for the sake of hating skeumorphism, is ignorant design.

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Tue Oct 25, 2016 4:56 pm

Ugh... the whole point of consistent GUI design on mobile devices is that they shouldn't be too distinct from each other. You know, it makes it easy to handle software of different origin, when it more or less looks the same. That's why Android has its own design scheme and guidelines, but also Windows, MacOS, Linux in most cases... i wouldn't know why software has to be distinctive looking, it's much better when you have a coherent design, so you don't have to work yourself in, with every single new program.

Jace-BeOS · Post by **Jace-BeOS** » Tue Oct 25, 2016 5:00 pm

Orbit-50 wrote:
I also always love firing up Largo. I really love the classy pencil sketch theme of this plugin. Easy on the eyes and kind of trippy compared to the average plugin. Joy to use.

The forms in this are very nice, as is the layout, but the contrast is a bit of a problem, especially with low resolution text. I really wish software companies would embrace high-PPI displays already. I know Windows devices need to be sold with high-PPI displays in order for anyone in the industry to take serious notice...

Dasheesh · Post by **Dasheesh** » Tue Oct 25, 2016 5:10 pm

SMH this is going to go down hill so fast. You kids have awful taste.

NUGEN

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Unfiltered audio

honorable mention and shout out to tone boosters bus compressor

Jace-BeOS · Post by **Jace-BeOS** » Tue Oct 25, 2016 5:17 pm

chk071 wrote:Ugh... the whole point of consistent GUI design on mobile devices is that they shouldn't be too distinct from each other. You know, it makes it easy to handle software of different origin, when it more or less looks the same. That's why Android has its own design scheme and guidelines, but also Windows, MacOS, Linux in most cases... i wouldn't know why software has to be distinctive looking, it's much better when you have a coherent design, so you don't have to work yourself in, with every single new program.

You can have distinctiveness without throwing away common design schemes in an OS. I'm a fan of software using the native API, UI objects, and behaviors as much as possible. It's bad form to constantly reinvent the wheel and to create inconsistent behaviors. The hotdog gimmick GUI does not break conventions when it offers a set of non-OS knobs because the knobs are familiar as knobs immediately (and I presume they operate like knobs operate, but I've never used that plugin).

More importantly, the distinctiveness I'm looking for is that which should exist between controls, labels, decorations, and displays so that people can easily tell what everything IS. The minimalist flat trend makes it hard to tell what is a control and what is not. It has reduced touch (and mouse) targets to ridiculously tiny surface areas, created greater likelihood of touching the wrong object, and negatively impacted users' ability to intuit how a control is meant to be operated (if they can tell it IS a control).

For example of that last point: iOS 7 destroyed Apple's unique mobile take on drop-down list boxes by removing all sense of depth; where there was once a clear design of a wheel to spin, they now just look like solid white spaces with text, not something you can figure out how to interact with unless you were already familiar with this control and presumed that it still behaved the same as it used to. This "design" a result of keeping the functional skeumorphism (it's still operated like a wheel) while stripping the visual skeumorphism (the visual cues). This is the absolute worst way to do UI design. It wasn't a "re-design" at all. It was a skinning process where the new visuals ruined the originally intended function. It takes prior experience to know WTF is going on there and new users are faced with cognitive clutter (yes, flattening a UI creates clutter while it claims to remove it), not knowing WTH they are looking at or what to do with it.

Favorite UI - most pleasing to the eyes...