does an updated version of the adobe audition theme exist in stash? all i see is the old one. that theme was dope as in hip hop dope and not the drug dope nor the name calling of a dummy a dope.
There are many things to acknowledge about Reaper but GUI is not one of them. It is not bad and there are some decent choices out there. Unfortunately, so far, none of them made me feel like I’m driving some esoteric Lamborghini. On the contrary, often it makes me feel like I’m pushing a Lamborghini quality engine in a baby’s pushchair up a Himalayan sized mountain.
GUI does not have to be fancy – it has to be elegant, streamlines and functional. Very easy to say –insanely difficult to achieve. Especially, if one would consider vast differences in tastes and workflow preferences. We’re 75% visual creatures. In fact, we exist largely because our fathers liked the way our mothers looked :-) All of that to say, is that a great looking GUI is often the most decisive factor for adopting new workflows and new ways of thinking.
Perhaps we need to start a brand new thread with our suggestions for 2017, and be more specific about it. Just saying “I want it to be better” is not very helpful.
I always like to give a mention to cincikat69 who designed some very nice console style GUIs. I've used a Neve one as my primary theme for quite a while now and paid a very low price for it. Worth checking out.
This is always the response. "If you don't like it, don't use it" lol some people.
Anyway nobody will ever take the GUI seriously at least anytime soon. Tons of threads, tons of logical factual feedback that gets lost in the shuffler and everyone attacks the messenger instead of the issue.
Reaper will never leave the Vegas 1.0 Windows XP Old timey Geocities look until people start giving a shit about LOOKS and PRESENTATION instead of just amazing features. BOTH are important. But whatever. I gave up. Arguing with Reaper fanbois are kinda like the special Olympics: even if you win, you're still retarded.
Have a good one!
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I always like to give a mention to cincikat69 who designed some very nice console style GUIs. I've used a Neve one as my primary theme for quite a while now and paid a very low price for it. Worth checking out.
Complaining and whining are two entirely different things. If something is painful - one has to scream!
Equating complaining with being a loser can only come from a loser. I don’t mean EpicSounds here – I mean the dude in this video. He complains a lot about complaining while sounding like a psychopath
When I complain people who care about me take notice and I often get help. Complaining – is dealing with the reality! At least one of the ways…
Complaining and whining are two entirely different things.
You know what one difference is? Embellishing in order to get people to look your way vs. leaving the emotion out and properly explaining the true need - even that doesn't guarantee anything either but it will always get more consideration (even when you aren't aware of said consideration).
The moment someone tries to sell a need as a true need, then coats it with embellishments and emotional generalizations, they are sort of shooting themselves in the foot. no one here, just explaining the difference.
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You know what one difference is? Embellishing in order to get people to look your way vs. leaving the emotion out and properly explaining the true need - even that doesn't guarantee anything either but it will always get more consideration (even when you aren't aware of said consideration).
The moment someone tries to sell a need as a true need, then coats it with embellishments and emotional generalizations, they are sort of shooting themselves in the foot. no one here, just explaining the difference.
Agreed. Though, in some cases, leaving emotions out is a very difficult task.
This is all in "general" , not necessarily about this thread. I don't think I'd scream in pain about some GUI...but then again, maybe I would :-) It depends on the design.
So if I have understood right what some of you are implying is something like:
Complaining about the complainers is cool, but .... complaining is not cool. Besides, we can deduce that some of you believe that they really have some kind of "complaining radar" to decide who is complaining or whining, this is cooooool dudes, this is better than changing any GUI or adding expression maps !!!!!! Anyway those special judges (the ones who preserve the cool Reaper spirit) don't give a s###! This sounds epic ...
I always like to give a mention to cincikat69 who designed some very nice console style GUIs. I've used a Neve one as my primary theme for quite a while now and paid a very low price for it. Worth checking out.
+1 ... I've used the Triton of his for quite a while ... his themes alone should put a choke-hold on those few habitual whiners.. but of course, that's wishful thinking
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I mean, there are difference between airing grievances, complaining, whining, making an observation, or offering constructive criticism. The issue is that saying "Reaper needs a better GUI" can be interpreted as being any one of those things. We need more information in order for us to make the distinction in your meaning. If you think Reaper needs a better GUI because you feel it impedes productivity, then that's probably a legitimate criticism if it is well supported. If you think it needs a new GUI because you think it's ugly, that's most certainly just a grievance or a complaint. If you think Reaper needs a new GUI because you feel entitled to one, then that is definitely just fucking whining.
The dude in that video just sounds like an intellectually bankrupt psycho who wants to sound profound while appealing to the "common man" by using gratuitous amounts of profanity. But he's really not saying anything of substance at all. Just based on that one clip, if you applied his type of thinking to any legitimate social movement in the twentieth century, surely both women and minorities would still be subservient in Western culture. It makes no sense to think this way.
I always like to give a mention to cincikat69 who designed some very nice console style GUIs. I've used a Neve one as my primary theme for quite a while now and paid a very low price for it. Worth checking out.
But... The site is having the same problem as the REAPER ecosystem. Page load times of 20 seconds are not really acceptable anymore.
And that's the problem I face on a daily basis when trying to be a missionary for REAPER. The info is out there, but it's dispersed over the forum, the stash and a number of other resources. I follow this forum on a daily basis and whenever I get a question about REAPER, I have to spend quite some time finding what I need to answer that question.
I do realise that isn't a problem for the power users on this forum. They know, or they know where or who to ask. But it is a big problem for the user who wants to switch. Most of them haven't got the time to search through a big forum like REAPER's. Unfortunately, Google isn't the answer either, as a lot of resources are badly indexed - or even not indexed at all.
The way the program looks without themes is a symptom of the same ailment. Themes are fine. They are perfect for the power user. But the beginner shouldn't even install themes, imho, as they will render support by others a lot harder.
And then there's the high dpi problem, that will probably make a complete redesign unavoidable in the future. I find this as ridiculous as the next guy. But it IS happening. And pretty soon, all laptops will have high dpi displays...
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Whatever term you use for it, pointing out a problem without providing any real alternative is a waste of everyone's time and absolutely deserves the response posted by EpicSounds.
I spent a few minutes going back through this thread and the two others linked by Lokasenna and determined that there is no concrete alternative suggested. All we have is the following:
Good:
Pro Tools (Albert C's lookalike theme mentioned twice)
Studio One 3
Bad:
green (mentioned 2 or 3 times)
The rest of the criticism is variations of expressing dislike. (Which is fine, no one has to like it, but doesn't help fix why it's disliked.)
The issue is that even when directly asked, repeatedly, to provide examples of things liked or disliked, in Reaper or elsewhere, no answer is provided by OP. The question is either ignored or outright deflected. There is simply not enough to go on.
This is not a personal attack. This is observed behavior.
I would suggest OP provide some examples elements he would like to see: glossy, flat, white, black, skeumorphic, non-skeumorphic, color wheels, etc; or perhaps link to the exact themes he finds preferable; or post a screenshot of Studio One 3 and Reaper with similar functionality highlighted, and some explanation of why one is preferable to the other.
The dude in that video just sounds like an intellectually bankrupt psycho who wants to sound profound while appealing to the "common man" by using gratuitous amounts of profanity.
When I see something like that, I explore more about that person to find out what they are about and where there might be some value I could be missing - I did just that. As far as being profane, he's trying to get through to those who are in that audience and need to 'hear' it the most but won't unless it's jagged enough to get their attention. I wouldn't read a thing into it beyond that.
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Saying you don't like something, then saying you also don't like anything from the dozens of alternatives that others have come up with, makes it sound like creating something that person will find useful is an impossible task. If someone has useful input or constructive criticism, great. But asking for changes with no alternatives or ideas is simply written flatulence.
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This is really amazing, every week some users ask for changes, for instance a nicer gui ... and suddenly other users say he doesn't need that, he should try another DAW, who the f€~# are you?
If you don't need it just don't write.
I don't need a nicer GUI so I won't say anything about the subject,
... but let the people who support this idea express themselves and ask whatever they want.
It's the correct response. Reaper didn't come with a guarantee that Cockos would create a UI that is perfect for you, and on your timeline. The "some people" you mention are the ones who actually understand how things work. You bought a product. If you didn't like it, why did you buy it? And if you really don't like it, the best thing to do is to buy something else that you do like.
The OP offered no ideas, advice, or insight. Sitting around complaining is not productive. It accomplishes nothing.
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This is always the response. "If you don't like it, don't use it" lol some people.
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Reaper is really more about lots of customizable options, and ways to tailor it to your needs, than it is for the developers to make what they believe is the best universally.
It has a decent GUI, if you want a better one, there are lots of options out there, or you can customize it yourself. That's really the reaper way.
I don't know any other DAWs where you can change the GUI. That's the trade off.
What the complaint SHOULD be, and something I think everyone in this thread will agree with:
- It would be awfully swell if we had theming access to the remaining GUI elements so that we aren't stuck with a hodgepodge of the theme, stock Reaper, and UI stuff from your OS.
- Too many things share theme settings; colors in the MIDI editor being a great example. It makes it difficult to get a good, consistent look.
Back on topic:
I like Paulie 5 theme. It is 90% there. Here is what I want:
I want to be able to grab a track meter, disconnect it from GUI by dragging it, stretch it anyway I want. See picks, rms, detailed numbers reading, and be able to color it separately from a chosen theme. When I'm done with that track, I can click away the meter and it would snap back to the original track and size but still keep the color (or not). Using separate metering plugin for this would not be as fast, or intuitive. Also, in this theme, I'd like to have my track metering (not mixer metering) to be horizontal, right under the fader rather then beside it. More gradient colors in these meters would definitely not hurt.
Also, in "ADD FX" menu-box I'd like to select a group of plugins and give them a certain color highlight; top 10 plugins wold be blue, then next 10 red etc, etc. It would greatly simplify selection of plugins when there is a gazillion of them. It would be nice if assigning these colors could be possible in both sections of this menu-box - on the left and on the right.
I'm not in my studio to make more detailed requests.
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These are really great looking themes.
But... The site is having the same problem as the REAPER ecosystem. Page load times of 20 seconds are not really acceptable anymore.
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For those of you who either dont now or have forgotten, Cinci reached a point with his debilitating ailments that he is no longer able to create music (which is how he got to reaper in the first place) and is only just keeping it together to work on his themes and maintaining the site. Cut the guy some slack.
While I agree with what this guy is saying, it's kinda hilarious that this guy is basically complaining himself (about complainers!) and comes off as an epic douche while doing so. And the audience doens't seem much better. That whole scene comes off as some weird 700 club for brogrammers.
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Forgot to add that I just checked the OPs posting statistics and it would appear that more than half of the threads he has started refer to crap themes, terrible gui, etc., without offering a single suggestion as to what might improve it, even from just his own perspective.
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And in case nobody noticed, the OP left the building about 2 pages ago.
Ah well.....
Hopefully in his next "reapers gui sucks " thread he will share some of his ideas as to what needs to be improved both why and (wishful thinking I expect) HOW.**
**HOW in this case meaning by giving specific suggestions rather than "they should hire some professional gui expert who is also psychic and can intuit exactly what I want"
Yup. I did a huge shoot out with all the best themes I could find. Commala won... for now.
I REALLY like the look of the iLogic themes but they are unfinished as far as I can tell.
I need to have alot of available variations for TCP and MCP layouts so I can use different color faders for busses, VCA's, etc. Alot of themes dont have the variety I need for that. No one has a dedicated VCA track yet (no meter - only solo, mute and maybe pan) and that would be a nice addition.