Amplidood's GUI mod 3.5.2 (always updating first post)

[amplidood]

1.9.2 released...already...

[monkey man]

Oh man, I'm missing so many of these... if only I had an Amplidood alarm.
Thank you again, AD; I look forward to trying these soon.

FWIMBW, is there any chance of our being able to download all/any missed versions at some point? If you're not able to host 'em all, that's perfectly fine of course - I for one am very grateful for all the work you're putting in, not least because I probably spent way too much time tweaking DP5 last year, and am not ready to go through the whole process again. Thank you again, Andy. You're a "primo" timesaver and anti-glare warrior man!

That mixer's starting to look really earthy though. (Maybe some flies and compost?)

Did someone say, "compost"?

[James Steele]

Oh man, I'm missing so many of these... if only I had an Amplidood alarm.
Thank you again, AD; I look forward to trying these soon.

You do. "Subscribe topic" at bottom of this page.

[Timeline]

You've taken this allot further than I have and I complement you on this.

My opinion on your mods are that you have taken the bg darkness thing a bit too far. The fader still needs work BTW as the one MOTU used is clearly non standard to existing faders on real analog gear and I don't relate. I put the original DP fader back on mine with some size changes.

I would like to understand how the default XML file changes things though. Could you explain? Also, I understand glogs set the selection position of the various bits of art but wonder if there is a way to make the main controller appear as a breakaway so the control section can be moved separately to the readouts?

Thanks

My current GUI look: www.eirec.com/DPImages/gmods.jpg

[monkey man]

Oh man, I'm missing so many of these... if only I had an Amplidood alarm.
Thank you again, AD; I look forward to trying these soon.

You do. "Subscribe topic" at bottom of this page.

Of course, James, but I'm only online in four hour blocks at night, and often only for one. I've missed chunks of more than one update several times now, and there's nought I can do unfortunately. Further, and probably only 'cause my connection's slow, I've missed two due to AD's pulling the files before d/l had completed. Doh! Oh well.

Thank you for having a heart at any rate James.

[ghobish]

Dood-

Once again thanks for your obsessive efforts!

I have one opinion... I find I prefer the style of Mute/Solo/Rec/Input buttons and highlights from version 1.7.1. Much clearer to me. I could always customize... which image file would that be?

[Shooshie]

I second that motion. Shooshie's artistic flair, photoshop knowledge, sound judgement and inability to let go once he gets his teeth into something would surely conspire to produce a desirable result for us all. LOL

I'll keep an eye out for the 'Meister Set 1.0.0.

Amplidood, I hope I'm not out of line asking Shooshie to have a go in your thread; I figured that since it's the case that many DeePeeps have had a dabble already and that the more who do so the merrier it is for us all, you wouldn't mind. Sorry man.

Thanks for the compliments, my dear simian friend, but I think I'd better spend my time working IN DP rather than working ON DP. I'm pretty happy with the fixes in DP6, and I think MOTU finally got the balance about right as far as graphics are concerned. While I also like looking at the Amplidood's GUI doodles, I think I'll just leave this one alone. I can see that one costing me about a week in Photoshop, and no doubt it would be more fun than a barrel of your cousins, but I've found enough things to keep me procrastinating about doing real work in DP, and right now that's got to be where I focus. About a year ago I gave myself a year to get my chops up on new VI's and make some cool demo reels, but I'm far, far from that goal. There's much to do. I'm almost done with the shipping of stuff to my daughter's new house in New Haven (a 3 story town house she's sharing with a few other girls), and there are yet a few more things to send to my son (who got a great job in Fort Collins, Colorado, right next to the mountains) so I'm almost over this hump of launching the kids from the nest. It's a period of emotions and hard work, and I've sacrificed months of music making for it. Now's the time to get back to what I do best, and while Photoshop may be fun, music is my bread and butter... which is getting a little scarce until I cook up another batch of it! Besides, Amplidood has got this covered! He's done some great mods.

Thanks again for asking,

Shoosh

[amplidood]

Dood-

Once again thanks for your obsessive efforts!

I have one opinion... I find I prefer the style of Mute/Solo/Rec/Input buttons and highlights from version 1.7.1. Much clearer to me. I could always customize... which image file would that be?

That's pretty easy, really. You can mix and match stuff all the way back to version 1.7.2 if you like. There are a number of incompatibilities with DP 6.01 any further back than that. Just open the graphic files to see which ones suit your taste. If you view the files in icon mode and make them pretty large, it's easy to browse and find what you are looking for. Column mode works well, too. Mixing and matching the Default Styles settings is a bit more involved, but you can find the numbers that work for you without too much effort.

[bOing]

Thanks again for asking

Thus Spake Cocopelli.


Shooshie, congrats on the successful raising of your kids. I know it's a tough job. Must be cuz my folks are still trying...

[Shooshie]

Dood... any chance of fixing the meter color bug, whereby it doesn't reach yellow at the top? I'm guessing it's just a matter of lowering the "top" of the color strip, but maybe it doesn't work like that, or maybe the programmers didn't guess that there is actually a change at the top, and... oh, who knows? It would be interesting to see if you could change the strip and make it work.

Shooshie

[bOing]

C'mon Shoosh [ nudge, nudge ] you're aching to crack that baby open and see the innards.

[amplidood]

Dood... any chance of fixing the meter color bug, whereby it doesn't reach yellow at the top? I'm guessing it's just a matter of lowering the "top" of the color strip, but maybe it doesn't work like that, or maybe the programmers didn't guess that there is actually a change at the top, and... oh, who knows? It would be interesting to see if you could change the strip and make it work.

Shooshie

The funny thing is, the old meter graphics are all over inside the images folder. It's just somehow they've overridden them with the colors in the Default Style file, which I explained a little earlier...

You know it's funny man. The graphics are there... Hm, that gives me an idea....
Yeah, the graphics for the old colors are there. All over the place. It's just the meters are all tied to that Default Style XML document. Getting rid of the meter parameters, setting them to zero, nothing seems to work. I believe that the numbers stand for R:G:B, but I'm not sure if there's a parameter for opacity. I tried adding another zero on the end, like

126:126:126:0

....thinking that may set the opacity to zero, just in case the old graphics are still being used and are just covered by these new parameters. Didn't work.

[amplidood]

You've taken this allot further than I have and I complement you on this.

My opinion on your mods are that you have taken the bg darkness thing a bit too far. The fader still needs work BTW as the one MOTU used is clearly non standard to existing faders on real analog gear and I don't relate. I put the original DP fader back on mine with some size changes.

That's why skins and user assignable color preferences are a must for DP in the near future. There is simply no way to make everyone happy. I think the darker vibe makes track colors and meters and certain important controls jump out. Just my opinion. I like some of the background color things you've done on yours, but some of the color choices are pretty garish.

Again, personal preference makes more user customizable options something MOTU needs to seriously consider. I promise you, however, that I do know how to listen and I take everything everyone says into consideration.

I would like to understand how the default XML file changes things though. Could you explain? Also, I understand glogs set the selection position of the various bits of art but wonder if there is a way to make the main controller appear as a breakaway so the control section can be moved separately to the readouts?

As far as I can tell, the XML just tells DP how to shade specific areas. Where those areas are defined I have no idea.

[amplidood]

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[Timeline]

You've taken this allot further than I have and I complement you on this.

Amplidood wrote:
I like some of the background color things you've done on yours, but some of the color choices are pretty garish.

Yes well... That is my name.