On 09-Mar-2005 01:36, Mike Carlyle wrote:
On Mar 8, 2005, at 3:39 PM, David Holloway wrote:
On Mar 8, 2005, at 10:03 AM, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:
My only other suggestion is purely UI :) A lot of the variants in the Ludwig v2 kit share the same icon (AFAICT), which I at least find confusing in pattern editor. I started tweaking some of the icons for sounds I had tried using in various songs so I could tell them apart, but some regular means of distinguishing the sounds visually would be useful, I think.
what visual cues are you using for your tweaked icons? i'm not a big fan of changing color for the variations. i prefer more iconic tweaks in black and white.
Funny. I had the same thought as Carl and started making my own colorized versions of your icons. Are you against color from an aesthetic point of view? Functionally, I think color is very important.
Actually, though I've taken happily cues for Mike Carlyle on use of color and such in my ns_kit dbkit muckings-about, I figured the Lugwig kit was purposely avoiding color, and so I tried doing things like changing the size of the graphic in the drum icon or adding "diacritical marks" (like a "circumflex" over accented hits) to indicate whether something was ghost, accented, whatever. (I also tried changing things to, like greyscale, for ghost hits, but maybe that was getting too close to using color :) I didn't do a lot of icon editing, since I plenty of icon editing opportunities for my taste in editing my ns_kit dbkit :) and I figured a new version of the Ludwig kit would pop out eventually anyway. Still, being able to visually identify the use of a given sample in the DB pattern editor seems pretty uiseful to me. Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson http://www.carlaz.com/