AmpGUI DP Themes (now at AMPGUIMODS.NET)

[Tripi]

I haven't looked at this thread in a while (since I'm still using DP 5.13), but I really like some of the mods you have come up with. Any chance you would ever be tempted to make a DP7 mod that looks exactly like DP5 (at least the colors)? I've always felt like the colors of DP5 are a very simple and elegant work environment. Either way... I started using your DP Night icon for my new DP5 icon in my dock. Looks great.

[amplidood]

Excellent work. Might I ask if anything in particular inspired the color choices? The name?

Wish I could say there was some high-minded method I employed for inspiration on these things. Mostly I just start with the stock GUI, pick a central set of controls, and see what happens. The name usually shows up about halfway through. Aquarius was originally Sky, then The Deep. The right name just feels right when it lands.

[amplidood]

I haven't looked at this thread in a while (since I'm still using DP 5.13), but I really like some of the mods you have come up with. Any chance you would ever be tempted to make a DP7 mod that looks exactly like DP5 (at least the colors)? I've always felt like the colors of DP5 are a very simple and elegant work environment. Either way... I started using your DP Night icon for my new DP5 icon in my dock. Looks great.

If I had screenshots of the original i probably could

[Tripi]

If I had screenshots of the original i probably could

I could probably set you up with this. Let me see if I have some time on monday morning.

[amplidood]

The stream whirls. The wind moans in
The pines. Grey rats scurry over
Broken tiles. What prince, long ago,
Built this palace, standing in
Ruins beside the cliffs?

[James Steele]

Crazy thought: 1-bit black and white theme like when Performer ran on old hardware like Mac SEs?

[amplidood]

Crazy thought: 1-bit black and white theme like when Performer ran on old hardware like Mac SEs?

Wanna know my theory? I don't know who the lead designer of DP is. I'd be willing to bet money, however, that that person has been there from the beginning. And I'd also be willing to bet that they simply are at a point in their life where they are trying to recapture the magic from the early days of their creation. If you really look at the interface from a purely historical viewpoint, you can see where I'm going with this.

Whoever steered the ship on DP's new GUI direction is waxing *seriously* nostalgiac for the old black and white Mac days. They honestly might have taken every development away from that original concept as a personal insult and completely unnecessary. This is their attempt to recapture that original feeling.

It also seems evident that the app design teams and the plugin design teams are completely different sets of people. There's just too big a gap in choices for them to be the same.

[James Steele]

Well, it always seemed to me like the plug-ins felt different (and better sometimes) than the app itself. As for a jaggy non-interlaced theme... it was purely nostalgia on my part and the sort of thing that would probably be a huge amoutnt of work only to load it up and go "Eewwww... nevermind, I was wrong!" LOL

[amplidood]

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[danworks]

It also seems evident that the app design teams and the plugin design teams are completely different sets of people. There's just too big a gap in choices for them to be the same.

That always been my theory too, two different sets of people in two different rooms as far apart as Italy and New Zealand

The truth is that who designed DP6 and the Masterwork-EQ, is the same person:
http://www.stretta.com/~matthew/works.html

[Shooshie]

It also seems evident that the app design teams and the plugin design teams are completely different sets of people. There's just too big a gap in choices for them to be the same.

That always been my theory too, two different sets of people in two different rooms as far apart as Italy and New Zealand

The truth is that who designed DP6 and the Masterwork-EQ, is the same person:
http://www.stretta.com/~matthew/works.html

But he designed the DP plugin interfaces long ago. He was not the designer of DP at that time. He only moved into the DP UI design at DP 3, which was itself a huge departure from its previous design. Many of the plugin UI's since then have been his design, if not all. Plugins are more free-form than a DAW, which is going to be limited by some industry expectations plus prior history of its look. I can see DP6 and the bundled synths being from the same person. The MW EQ is another story, though he designed it, too. It's hard to stereotype someone from a wide range of works from different periods of his life. But I'd venture to guess that this person likes open white space.

Shoosh

[amplidood]

Jade 1.0..

[bayswater]

Whoever steered the ship on DP's new GUI direction is waxing *seriously* nostalgiac for the old black and white Mac days. They honestly might have taken every development away from that original concept as a personal insult and completely unnecessary. This is their attempt to recapture that original feeling.

Could be more than nostalgia. Sometimes I wish for the old text and line drawing 1 bit interface on old Ataris and Macs. Redraws and screen changes were instant, and the functions were no less effective.

[Tripi]

I haven't looked at this thread in a while (since I'm still using DP 5.13), but I really like some of the mods you have come up with. Any chance you would ever be tempted to make a DP7 mod that looks exactly like DP5 (at least the colors)? I've always felt like the colors of DP5 are a very simple and elegant work environment. Either way... I started using your DP Night icon for my new DP5 icon in my dock. Looks great.

If I had screenshots of the original i probably could

Had a little time between games today.... so I grabbed three shots from my DP5.13 template. Maybe I'm too hung up on this..... but I think these colors are absolutely the most elegant, easiest on the eyes, straight forward GUI of any DAW every made. I keep the contrast on my monitors high, and the brightness dark... which makes it even better. If Mr. Amplidood wants to take a swing at it, I promise to order my copy of DP7 and find a way to make my 1000 quickeys commands work with it.

http://www.greg-tripi.com/stuff/DP5_1.jpg

http://www.greg-tripi.com/stuff/DP5_2.jpg

http://www.greg-tripi.com/stuff/DP5_3.jpg

Just in case you're curious... this is closer to how it appears on my screen:

http://www.greg-tripi.com/stuff/DP5_4.jpg

[amplidood]

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