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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon oxesoft

Rework user interface

Open suhr opened this issue 9 years ago • 8 comments
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There's a room for improvement.

Some possible improvements:

  • Switch programs via a list or arrows, add a dialog with folders and categories to load/save banks/programs.
  • Draw envelope curves
  • Modulation matrix: connect values with lines to form circuit (FM8 style)
  • Add a midi keyboard (yes, very please)
  • Make UI less ugly (not a UX issue, but still)

Look at Helm and Dexed (both are free software) to see how a good UI can look like.

suhr avatar Jan 20 '16 05:01 suhr

I am with you - lot of space for improvements. The Project looks dead :-(

Harald-Koschinski avatar Mar 16 '17 21:03 Harald-Koschinski

Harald, the project is not dead. It is just stable. There is many many people using it. There are infinite possible improvements. I know a lot of them, but aggressive changes can transform it in another software, breaking all DAW projects saved with the current version. You are welcome to contribute with patches.

oxesoft avatar Mar 17 '17 00:03 oxesoft

Hello Daniel, I am very sorry for my wrong statement. Congratulations to your excellent work. There was no answer to the above comment since over a year and I saw no activity around the project - no discussions. Maybe a fork to "V2" is a way to have a stable system and improvements in an unstable brunch.

Harald-Koschinski avatar Mar 17 '17 11:03 Harald-Koschinski

Also, consider HiDP screens, viewing this interface is impossible at 4K

Lucretia avatar May 13 '19 17:05 Lucretia

I like the UI appearance, it looks clean. The only problem I see it everything are very tiny on it, even on non 4K screen. Having it x 1.5 would be great

farvardin avatar Apr 26 '20 09:04 farvardin

Agreed! Scaling between 100% and 300% would be very useful! :)

Audiojunkie avatar Nov 17 '23 23:11 Audiojunkie

Agreed! Scaling between 100% and 300% would be very useful! :)

@Audiojunkie

while not ideal, I've just tried to make a version which double the UI size. There are still a few glitches (LCD & mod matrix letters) but it looks functional: https://github.com/farvardin/oxefmsynth

It's a bit too big this way, but it fits a 1280x1024 screen at least

farvardin avatar Nov 18 '23 18:11 farvardin

damn, I've just seen this PR which hadn't been integrated :(

https://github.com/oxesoft/oxefmsynth/pull/28/commits

Anyway, I won't need to have the GUI at x3 size, x2 is enough...

Since it's quite tricky to compile it (the VST 2.4 is no longer legally available from steinberg), I've put a version there:

https://github.com/farvardin/oxefmsynth/releases/tag/latest

farvardin avatar Nov 18 '23 20:11 farvardin