OCTAVE - Open Community Theme - Page 3

Kundalinguist · 12-07-2010, 12:58 PM

I'll even take a cardboard box.

J3FFR3Y2692 · 12-07-2010, 01:08 PM

I would love to help and contribute to this any way that I can. Maybe testing?

jmcecil · 12-07-2010, 02:29 PM

Knob is only usable if it works like this ...

Code:

set tcp.volume.style 0 ; Fader
set tcp.volume.style 1 ; Knob goes to 11

other than that +1

pixeltarian · 12-07-2010, 04:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brice

Gett doesn't seem collaborative, probably a nice place to upload stuff...
but it wouldn't give a holistic view of what everyone is doing.

you can create separate shares (kind of like folders) and we could all just use the same login. just a thought, I don't really care what we use in the end as long as it's easy.

brice · 12-07-2010, 05:03 PM

Pixeltarian : ok, will give Gett a try later and setup a common account for use with this project.

Edited first post, will try and upload something tonight ... already 1AM ... no promises

Solar · 12-07-2010, 05:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brice

Pixeltarian : ok, will give Gett a try later and setup a common account for use with this project.

Edited first post, will try and upload something tonight ... already 1AM ... no promises

Damn Brice, tu dors jamais? Very excited about all this

hopi · 12-07-2010, 06:09 PM

Community Users Theme Effort

at the least ya gotta admit it's CUTE

btw, I'm not too bad with PS and would happily contribute whatever I could.

RBowlin · 12-08-2010, 04:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brice

will try and upload something tonight ... no promises

Anything brewing we can look at?

-Rich

brice · 12-08-2010, 05:09 PM

sorry it's taking longer than expected,
slept 3 hours last night, busy day at work, now it's 1am and I haven't yet had a chance to look at it today.

RBowlin · 12-08-2010, 05:13 PM

Completely understand.

I'll try to be more patient

-Rich

musicbynumbers · 12-08-2010, 05:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jmcecil

Knob is only usable if it works like this ...

Code:

set tcp.volume.style 0 ; Fader
set tcp.volume.style 1 ; Knob goes to 11

other than that +1

Make sure that 11 is in feet not inches!

(Spinal tap reference)

lol

jmcecil · 12-08-2010, 07:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by musicbynumbers

Make sure that 11 is in feet not inches!

(Spinal tap reference)

lol

can't have our 11 be in peril of being trod on by dwarfs, can we?

Kundalinguist · 12-08-2010, 08:30 PM

No rush, Brice. Better to get it right than to get it in a hurry.

Shan · 12-08-2010, 08:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EvilDragon

One more guy here to big-up Brice's idea!

+1 billion!

Bring it on Brice. Time for some of your creations to shine.

Shane

PitchSlap · 12-08-2010, 10:31 PM

If the colors and graphics just match the mock up as best as possible using 3.x features, I think this will be my new default theme.

Any WALTER stuff is just icing on the cake.

I can't wait to see where this ends up.

zappa · 12-09-2010, 05:37 AM

The "V" is OCTAVE "Virtuous"

11 - 1 more. "Tap into America" all over again

Pashkuli · 12-09-2010, 06:52 AM

So... where is Aldi?!

susbemol · 12-09-2010, 07:59 AM

There are loads of amazingly talented guys & girls here and we appreciate you very much! Having said that, Aldi will never be forgotten (if he's no longer around) for some amazing "out of the box" themes.

PerunZG · 12-09-2010, 02:41 PM

My teeny, tiny contribution to the cause: vectorized OCTAVE logo that Brice made (see first post), in Xara format. I tried to be as truthful to the original as possible.

https://stash.reaper.fm/7292/Octave.xar

lsutigh · 12-10-2010, 01:55 PM

super excited for this effort.

Whats the best way for us graphically illiterate people to help?

brice · 12-10-2010, 03:59 PM

week-end at last

I should hopefully have some free time and get something done.

IMO we should do mock-ups of the general layouts
which anyone can do with the software they are accustomed to
(be it inkscape, gimp, xara ... or photoshop)
and we can worry about the look & feel later.

as I've said earlier let's start with the MCP

- Where should the buttons be?
- fixed height faders/meters?
- which buttons should show up on specific track layouts?
- how many different track layouts?

PerunZG :
I can't open xar files but I hope it wasn't too much trouble, I could have uploaded a svg file or something if you wanted.

Kundalinguist · 12-10-2010, 04:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brice

week-end at last

...

as I've said earlier let's start with the MCP

- Where should the buttons be?
- fixed height faders/meters?
- which buttons should show up on specific track layouts?
- how many different track layouts?
...

Were we not going to try to implement the legendary "Brice" GUI? Or did you want to just throw out all preconceptions and go with something totally new?

brice · 12-10-2010, 04:27 PM

My old mock-up could be the starting point in terms of look, but who knows where this could lead.
WALTER does open up a ton of new possibilities in terms of layout.

Kundalinguist · 12-10-2010, 04:34 PM

ie. the toolbar just became dockable (alpha 10?) over the main toolbar. Is that new? I think it is.

AdamWathan · 12-10-2010, 04:35 PM

Been there since alpha 1.

Artbay · 12-10-2010, 04:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EvilDragon

This is great and space-conserving, but I would definitely like to see the +/- shown, ALONG with different colored frame. Just for clarity.

i'm probably off-topic here, but this mention of ideal knobs reminds me of something i would loooooooooooooove to see implemented in the reaper interface...

there was some program i used several years ago (forgot the name, probably on the mac) that would let you modify >>>EACH DIGIT<<< in a number by dragging up (to increment) or down (to decrement).

need to slam the knob by hundreds? click-drag the digit in the hundreds' place. need the slightest adjustment? click-drag the digit in the tenths or hundredths' place. that was the most usable number-slider element i've seen.

could WALTER implement something like this?

example:
digispin.gif

Kundalinguist · 12-10-2010, 04:42 PM

[[[[[DOH!!!!]]]]

Mr. Data · 12-10-2010, 05:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Artbay

i'm probably off-topic here, but this mention of ideal knobs reminds me of something i would loooooooooooooove to see implemented in the reaper interface...

there was some program i used several years ago (forgot the name, probably on the mac) that would let you modify >>>EACH DIGIT<<< in a number by dragging up (to increment) or down (to decrement).

need to slam the knob by hundreds? click-drag the digit in the hundreds' place. need the slightest adjustment? click-drag the digit in the tenths or hundredths' place. that was the most usable number-slider element i've seen.

could WALTER implement something like this?

example:
Attachment 9793

Yeah! This would be fabulous!!

But I suspect this is more a programming issue than a WALTER thing.

-Data

gofer · 12-10-2010, 06:17 PM

I don't think that's in WALTERS powers. But yeah, Logic did that ever since and it's undoubtedly my favorite way of editing numbers. It doesn't even need those pluses and minuses and no rectangles around digits. As soon as one does it once it becomes second nature. I've been asking for it several times here.

Artbay · 12-10-2010, 06:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gofer

I don't think that's in WALTERS powers. But yeah, Logic did that ever since and it's undoubtedly my favorite way of editing numbers. It doesn't even need those pluses and minuses and no rectangles around digits.

yeah, whatever it was i used didn't have the +/-, that was more of a nod to evildragon's preference. seems like it had shaded rectangles though - of course that's optional too...

Quote:

Originally Posted by gofer

As soon as one does it once it becomes second nature. I've been asking for it several times here.

if that has an official f.r., link it and i'll go vote for it now

gofer · 12-10-2010, 06:30 PM

I don't believe I opened an official tracker ticket for it. Just mentioned it during discussions but as far as I remember didn't gain much support. There has been a time when mouse editing was a four letter word in these forums

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jedstar2000 · 12-11-2010, 02:24 AM

Just spent about 16 hours pushing pixels around with walter .

This is ware I got, it demonstrates how ridiculously small the tcp can become and how you can use very small faders with ctrl click and right click.

Don't be alarmed by the graphics as I'm sure many of you will hate it and I can hardly draw.

I would defiantly support the use of knobs

http://www.screencast.com/users/Jeds...9-f70162058070

I will post it up but its W.I.P and has got some nasty overlay hacks that I'm not proud of.

Hope this helps in some way Jed

http://www.mediafire.com/?xjzxpdvsbgl18g8

brice · 12-11-2010, 09:43 AM

ok, so I'm just getting started moving buttons around
obviously quite a few problem in the layout.

Let's get the comments rolling, new/better ideas...

Photoshop file available :
http://localhostr.com/files/draJBZm/MCP-OCTAVE.zip

Solar · 12-11-2010, 11:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brice

ok, so I'm just getting started moving buttons around
obviously quite a few problem in the layout.

Let's get the comments rolling, new/better ideas...

Photoshop file available :
http://localhostr.com/files/draJBZm/MCP-OCTAVE.zip

Wooooooooooow Brice!!! Incroyable l'ami!!!! All I can say is that all this is looking very good and really promising. keep up the good work!!!

airon · 12-11-2010, 11:29 AM

Were any of those views rendered by Reaper ?

I ask because Reaper will not colour only the track-number background, but only either the background of the track name, or the entire MCP/TCP. So in any mockups you can only colour the background of the track name if you don't want to tint the entire panel. I'd love to be proven wrong though.

Nice colour choices on the sends, parameter knobs and inserts. Mmh. We do have knobs, but it seems we cannot(yet?) use them for the pans, but the tiny sliders in the "normal +width" look great and seem easy to spot. Nice choice of metering colours too.

Don't forget we can have wider MCPs, and we may be able to improve the design with a little more space to do it.

brice · 12-11-2010, 11:52 AM

not rendered with reaper,

thought we could color what we wanted now, will have to change that.
otherwise we'll have to use some hacks

jedstar2000 · 12-11-2010, 12:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brice

not rendered with reaper,

thought we could color what we wanted now, will have to change that.
otherwise we'll have to use some hacks

You can use layouts for different colors..

This could be particularly useful for setting Track types.

p.s. loving the mockup

brice · 12-11-2010, 12:36 PM

could someone work on making the meters?

PerunZG · 12-11-2010, 01:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brice

PerunZG :
I can't open xar files but I hope it wasn't too much trouble, I could have uploaded a svg file or something if you wanted.

Damn it, if I knew you had it in vector format already, I wouldn't have bothered.

But it was fun and it was done in almost no time.

Kundalinguist · 12-11-2010, 03:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brice

could someone work on making the meters?

I've never done meters before. What are the file names? I looked in prefs/themes...etc. but had no luck isolating those babies.