DP 6 GUI - What do you think of it?

thelonecynic · Post by **thelonecynic** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 5:09 pm

Man, DP6 is so quirky.

I'm attracted to quirky people, but that's not a good quality for a production app.

The mixing board GUI acts funny. I often automate plugs' bypass toggle button to enable/disable the plug during certain parts of the sequence. When I play the sequence, the board is often showing the wrong state of the plug, active when it should be inactive or vice versa. But I know that the plug's in the correct state cuz I hear it, but it's annoying to look at.

monkey man · Post by **monkey man** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 6:41 am

thelonecynic wrote:Man, DP6 is so quirky. I'm attracted to quirky people...

Hey, you'll love me then, thelonecynic - I'm a Trekkie too.

Oops... I thought you said, "Kirky". My bad. Guess I'm quirky too. LOL

Tonio Ruiz · Post by **Tonio Ruiz** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 9:46 am

well, I've just spent about 6 hours straight mixing now that my studio is fully set, and DP6 GUI really wasn't buggy at all, DP6 did crash while trying to open a OMF session, but that is other thread

by the way, what does "quirky" mean???

monkey man · Post by **monkey man** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 9:52 am

Pick almost any Unicorn, and there you have it, Tonio. LOL

Tonio Ruiz · Post by **Tonio Ruiz** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 10:04 am

geeeeee I don't get it, am I clumsy????

monkey man · Post by **monkey man** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 10:42 am

Naaa... just quirky.

Tonio Ruiz · Post by **Tonio Ruiz** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 10:46 am

jlaudon · Post by **jlaudon** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:32 pm

Well, I arranged a song in DP6 - and for now these are a couple comments and questions -

• I can live with the GUI, but my eyes are fatigued a lot quicker than with DP 5
• the mixing board meters are very hard to see clearly (with the dark blue and light blue) and the fader area seems very congested. The mute/record/solo buttons could also stand out more (the colors could be part of the whole button)
• Proverb and Leveller sound great.
• track selection is a bit quirky -

A question: in DP5 the tracks overview nudge was always one measure, and now it follows what is set on nudge - is there another way to have the track overview nudge independent from the SE or SE nudge?

Everything else seems to work ok - a bit of getting used to the mini menus being on the right.
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Finally a couple of suggestions - bring back the collapse button for the SE/GE in consolidated window - and the play/recordenable buttons in the MIDI editor (no fun always having to go to the tracks overview to do this). Also having the vertical/horizontal resize buttons in the SE up in the top left was really nice in Dp5 (since this is the main editing window).

I'm not overwhelmed with the GUI design - personally I think MOTU could kept DP 5's workflow/minimenus etc, and redesigned the GUI look. I do love the track comping, Proverb. Leveller, Cd burning, and resizing the tracks overview.

That all said though (all my complaining on this board has mostly been about Logic... sorry MOTU this time), it's miles ahead of other DAWs and I will always use DP

amplidood · Post by **amplidood** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 2:19 pm

Here's my attempt at preventing retinal burnin....

bOing · Post by **bOing** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 7:03 pm

amplidood wrote:Here's my attempt at preventing retinal burnin....

That looks good. That greyishness thing really works.

amplidood · Post by **amplidood** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 1:02 pm

Okay, I think I'm moving more in the right direction now...

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.c ... D=34516945

Maybe someone can help me get rid of the partially opaque little boxes around the fader knobs, I can't seem to figure it out. I've been using the free "Seahorse" graphic editor to do all this.

If I, not being any kind of a graphic designer, can come up with a way to make the interface more tolerable, how hard could it have been for a "pro"???????

monkey man · Post by **monkey man** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 5:56 am

Nice work Amplidood; keep it up man.

I tried to find the app you mentioned, but this was as close as I could get:

http://seahorse.darwinports.com/

There was a kiddies' game, a screensaver, 'photo site or something and a security system (or something!) too, but I couldn't find a graphic app. Just curious as I'll never be able to afford a "proper" editor/painter/drawer or whatever at the rate I'm going.

amplidood · Post by **amplidood** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 8:14 am

Wow. Time for a new set of spectacles for the Amplidood.....

The app is called "SeaSHORE"

http://seashore.sourceforge.net/

It's based on a bigger freeware app called GIMP that requires X11 to run. I hate running stuff in X11, so i don't unless absolutely necessary.

monkey man · Post by **monkey man** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 8:28 am

Aah... thank you AD. I'll give it a go.

amplidood · Post by **amplidood** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 10:01 am

Okay, until I learn more about bevel shading and how to do 3d elements right, I'm going to leave it like this for a while. My eyes have such an easier time figuring out what's going on in this current setup. Anyone interested in modding DP this way can message me and I'll upload the modded files to ya. Or email at aselby@comcast.net

I still can't figure out how to get rid of the semi-opaque boxes around the fader knobs.

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.c ... D=34562485

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DP 6 GUI - What do you think of it?

Leaving aside some of the functional issues to be resolved (plug-in compatibility, bugs), which statement below best describes your opinion of the new graphic look introduced with DP6?