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Re: Geometee

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post #4

Really cool! Please consider replacing the tiny knobs with something a bit more user-friendly like sliders

Yes, please. I like the concept, but found using the dials really fiddly and unintuitive. They don't seem to "turn" like one would expect, working only off the height of the mouse cursor after starting interaction.

It was actually intuitive to me.

But I'm used to interfaces for VSTs (audio generation/effects plugins) that usually have this exact interaction mode. See http://www.protoolerblog.com/wp-content/uploads/screenshot_O... for an example of one.

(Sometimes VST knobs also have the extra of horizontal movement being a "fine-tune" mode, even, which is very handy.)

Re: Geometee

#26
I spent a long time trying to make it into the Joy Division cover before working out that it wasn't going to happen...

Re: Geometee

#28
post #19
post #17

I can't turn the knobs at all most of the time. I'm using a mouse on a laptop; maybe this only really works on a tablet or phone?

That part is, to me, a UI disaster. What you can do though is click and drag upwards, even out of the knob, and it will work (barely, because it's incredibly not sensitive)

Yes. Those stupid knobs confused me terribly. I kept trying to move the mouse cursor as if it were my finger, using it to rotate that little notch on the knob. Because, like, it's a knob... right? I mean, I've used knobs before. That's how they work. And this is a knob. I know that, because it looks like one. EVEN THE STUPID BAR GOES ROUND THE KNOB. It's telling you to rotate it. And then you rotate it, and it doesn't work.

Dear people, stop doing this.

Re: Geometee

#29
post #26

I spent a long time trying to make it into the Joy Division cover before working out that it wasn't going to happen...

Maybe a bit off-topic but I enquired on Quora a few months ago on how one would go about simulating the CP1919 Cover. (I wanted it laser cut on my MacBook Pro through the services of uncover.com) and here's the answer:

http://www.quora.com/Data-Visualization/What-would-be-a-way-...

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