JerryKnight wrote:I'm pretty sure they're using QT (don't remember where I read that, maybe I'm imagining it), which is why they are able to easily release versions for three platforms simultaneously.
Pianoteq use the JUCE UI Toolkit, cross platform, C++, runs on Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS, Android. Similar to Qt but developed originally for audio applications.
Awesome, thanks.
]]>Yes. Hopefully we will see photo realistic 3-D pianos rotating on a virtual stage with an animated audience that responds in real time to your input as you play. A spinning disco ball would be a welcome addition as well.
Ooops...it's not quite April Fools Day yet, is it! Sorry.
I'm pretty sure they're using QT (don't remember where I read that, maybe I'm imagining it), which is why they are able to easily release versions for three platforms simultaneously.
Pianoteq use the JUCE UI Toolkit, cross platform, C++, runs on Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS, Android. Similar to Qt but developed originally for audio applications.
]]>Every UI can stand improvement, and with Pianoteq I would like to see different options for the UI. Example: I have a small touchscreen monitor in the closet, and I would love to have a PT interface that was optimized for such a touchscreen. Full-screen window, large buttons, etc. I tried using the monitor for PT, but the window didn't quite fit and many features were too small to interact with.
Honestly, most of the time, I'm playing with my monitor (which is actually my living room TV) turned off and Pianoteq effectively running "headless". I have a few options connected to my NanoKontrol sliders and buttons, but most of the time, it's just a living room piano. Only when I'm recording or tweaking do I actually use the interface.
]]>Yes!!! on both a release and a new UI, even if not for 4.0, but 4.5
I find it such an eyesore and un-modern, especially the fact that it's a fixed window size that I can neither maximize nor resize. Seriously, the only programs that do that are indeed circa 1998 Windows '98 programs.
If you need to keep the old UI for XP users, fine, do that, but surely a rebuild with a WPF or Metro UI would bring it to the modern era. I don't know about what API you use for Linux or Mac, but surely they have scalable UIs too that you could re-use assets in.
I would even make the piano keybed more front and center, perspective style so that it looks like you're actually sitting at a piano and not looking directly down at something in isomorphic space. Seriously, there is a serious disconnect between the audio quality and the UI quality. Don't delay the release of 4.0 for this, but maybe make it 4.1 or 4.2 (after a bugfix / optimization release).
I know GUI updates often accompany major revision numbers, but who cares, better late than never. Something that looks cheap will not sell as well, in this era of ipads and whatnots. You really can't have a fixed resolution UI any more, especially with super high res displays coming out, the UI will be tiny on those if you can't scale up.
I can see you are registered at 28-12-2009
So i really wonder why all these complaints about gui shows up more than two years after you probably bought Pianoteq ?
Just a thought
]]>I find it such an eyesore and un-modern, especially the fact that it's a fixed window size that I can neither maximize nor resize. Seriously, the only programs that do that are indeed circa 1998 Windows '98 programs.
If you need to keep the old UI for XP users, fine, do that, but surely a rebuild with a WPF or Metro UI would bring it to the modern era. I don't know about what API you use for Linux or Mac, but surely they have scalable UIs too that you could re-use assets in.
I would even make the piano keybed more front and center, perspective style so that it looks like you're actually sitting at a piano and not looking directly down at something in isomorphic space. Seriously, there is a serious disconnect between the audio quality and the UI quality. Don't delay the release of 4.0 for this, but maybe make it 4.1 or 4.2 (after a bugfix / optimization release).
I know GUI updates often accompany major revision numbers, but who cares, better late than never. Something that looks cheap will not sell as well, in this era of ipads and whatnots. You really can't have a fixed resolution UI any more, especially with super high res displays coming out, the UI will be tiny on those if you can't scale up.
]]>What version 4 needs is a release!
yesss !!!
]]>- I hate it when programs are to flashy like a commercial, pianoteq is not, just cool and easy to overview design.
Like so many users im running pianoteq both on its own for piano solo, but also in projects together with lots of other vsts and effects. When running pianoteq with lots of other memory demanding vsts I really appreciate that pianoteq is so easy on the cpu,
Im afraid too many programmers dont trust their programs to be good on their own and add too much grapic and flashy moving stuff which basicly causes the program to become slower and more demanding on the cpu.
Im acctually hoping that pianoteq sticks to a simple and clever design like the current, beautiful and fast for the cpu.
Its not the pianoteq GUI I want to sit and stare at for hours and hours, I want to stare at my 88 key roland fp5 and enjoy the wonderful sound that is modartt!
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Also, why am I not able to maximize the interface? Or at least stretch it more than what it is?
I realy agree om this, it would be so much easier to control the sound if it was possible to have bigger slides (is it the Wright word???, it's not knobbs...).
]]>It need a option to minimize, or/and minimize most functions and let the essential, or just one choosed opotion.
But the key point right now it's the sound, so let's put the "book's cover" to second plans.
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