Ooh no... I think colour is a really helpful asset when interpreting a pattern. In most of the the kits I have assembled, I found colour to be the most natural indicator of differences between sounds - Sometimes I use just solid blocks of different colours to represent each instrument. I think that we are so programmed too differentiate colour above shape that any use of colour in icons is a vastimprovement a valuable aid to seeing patterns more easily. Also am I right that colour preception is closer in the brain to sound perception - and in the creative part, unlike shape perception, which is in the thinking bit? This is me speaking as a non-drummer, graphic designer, non-drummer - but I can understand how it would be useful for a drummer familiar with notation to have consistent b/w icons though. Anyone fancy trying the solid blocks idea/experiment - I'd be interested to hear what you think Sion Morris Liverpool www.cinnamondesign.co.uk/music/music.html On 10 Mar 2005, at 1:12 am, David Holloway wrote:
my preference towards black & white is more from the point of view of (a) keeping the doggiebox notation consistent with my hand written notation and (b) trying to keep in the spirit of the traditional drum/musical notation.
i read drum notation from magazines, music books, sheet music, etc. so it helps when i'm reading and playing to not have to adjust to different glyphs, remember color codes, etc.
i just dug up my book "Guide To Standardized Drumset Notation" by norman weinberg. i'll see what i can adapt from it...
cheers, d.
On Mar 8, 2005, at 5:36 PM, Mike Carlyle wrote:
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.
On Mar 8, 2005, at 3:39 PM, David Holloway wrote:
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. hmmm... i think i have a musical notation book around here somewhere. maybe that'll help.
d.
On Mar 8, 2005, at 10:03 AM, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:
On 04 Mar 2005, at 02:53, David Holloway wrote:
sure. i'll try to remember this time... ;-) i also, have a couple different shakers i'll try to get down while i'm at it.
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.
Cheers, Carl
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