Take GUI inspiration from the Surge XT theme Andromena Dub

[RustoMCSpit]

[RustoMCSpit]

Do you see how each component is colored depending on its category? That would be useful to bring over instead of just coloring everything blue.

[RustoMCSpit]

Also, that Patch browser looks pretty poor GUI wise. Vital has a pop out display approach you might find useful. The title of the patch should be visible though

[sjoerdk-of]

Hi again! The patch browser is just a standard file-open dialog. I don't know if i ever intend to write a customized ui for that. For now the focus is 1) audio engine, 2) primary GUI (aka the plug window itself), 3) some factory presets and 4) everything else.

The color-coding is a neat idea though. I mean obviously the ui is far from finished, but eventually i would like some kind of visual grouping. Not sure how to approach that, i could go by CV vs audio (so, osci + fx vs env + lfo), voice vs global, or a combination of those. Maybe group the audio mixers along with the mod matrix, too. Open to suggestions ;)

[RustoMCSpit]

@amaethron made the original skin, maybe they'd have advice

[RustoMCSpit]

3. some factory presets

if you're re-working your patch browser, theres nothing stopping you from directly integrating OAS there, thats actually what it's been designed for since day one. that way users can upload, share, and download surge presets amongst one another inside your plugin: themes, presets, wavetables, anything

[sjoerdk-of]

What's OAS?

[RustoMCSpit]

https://open-audio-stack.github.io/open-audio-stack-site/plugin

Open Audio Stack

[RustoMCSpit]

[sjoerdk-of]

Looks interesting. Related to StudioRack sjoerdvankreel/firefly-synth#10 in any way?

[RustoMCSpit]

Same creator @kmturley. Open Audio Stack is a new registry, Studiorack's is deprecated.

[RustoMCSpit]

the ui is over all very cluttered and should get rid of some visual information. for example, is it necessary to show "1 2 3 4" here

[RustoMCSpit]

why is this so long

[RustoMCSpit]

I'd change the font to something nicer, heres some nice ones studiorack/studiorack-site#21

[sjoerdvankreel]

"for example, is it necessary to show "1 2 3 4" here" -> guess not, nice catch, thanks!
"why is this so long" -> because the synth isn't finished yet, and neither is the ui ;)

[amaethron]

@amaethron made the original skin, maybe they'd have advice

Well thanks haha.
I only really took the original SVG files and edited each one of them to make them look pleasant to my eyes. It was a long trial and error process really, nothing fancy.