GUI "request" regarding D16 Drummachines
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 2:56 pm
Hi there,
First of all congrats to the D16s for their great "classic boxes" plugs (nithonat and shioitor are on my whishlist) :p
There is something that really annoys me though, and I'm curious to hear what other users and D16s think about it : the sequencer UI of your virtual drummachines. I understand the idea was to emulate the hardware original's seq with the instrument selection pot (though I know there is another way to select instruments), the steps button that control only one instrument at a time, part selection button etc... my question is : what the point to emulate these hardware "limitations"?
what was (and still is) a great UI in the original hardware boxes (though dictated by hardware "cost" limitation) became a bloody pain in the ass to use and "visualise" in virtual emulations IMHO. why not take advantage of what is possible with virtual instrument GUI. Come on... instrument selector to access its step button edition?
wouldn't it be more userfriendly, simple and intuitive to have some kind of a grid seq where you can visualise and edit ALL the instruments steps on one simple display. If I remember well the original 707 (or was it the 505?) had some kind a little grid seq display. Upcoming Audiodamage drumsynth has exactly that kind of "in-built" grid-seq-display I would love to see in your drummachines :
http://www.analogindustries.com/images/ ... enshot.png
Again this request has nothing to do with your drummachines sequencer "features" (which are absolutely great), only their sequencer UI.
keep up the good work!
cheers
First of all congrats to the D16s for their great "classic boxes" plugs (nithonat and shioitor are on my whishlist) :p
There is something that really annoys me though, and I'm curious to hear what other users and D16s think about it : the sequencer UI of your virtual drummachines. I understand the idea was to emulate the hardware original's seq with the instrument selection pot (though I know there is another way to select instruments), the steps button that control only one instrument at a time, part selection button etc... my question is : what the point to emulate these hardware "limitations"?
what was (and still is) a great UI in the original hardware boxes (though dictated by hardware "cost" limitation) became a bloody pain in the ass to use and "visualise" in virtual emulations IMHO. why not take advantage of what is possible with virtual instrument GUI. Come on... instrument selector to access its step button edition?
wouldn't it be more userfriendly, simple and intuitive to have some kind of a grid seq where you can visualise and edit ALL the instruments steps on one simple display. If I remember well the original 707 (or was it the 505?) had some kind a little grid seq display. Upcoming Audiodamage drumsynth has exactly that kind of "in-built" grid-seq-display I would love to see in your drummachines :
http://www.analogindustries.com/images/ ... enshot.png
Again this request has nothing to do with your drummachines sequencer "features" (which are absolutely great), only their sequencer UI.
keep up the good work!
cheers
as you may have noticed, I just linked to a picture displayed by one of AD guys on his own blog... 