VST Plugins not working

[Brian Johnston]

They used to work... I presume there's one button I have to click or something simple. I have FX clicked on (so they are active), and each VST is 'on.' I'm getting nothing, including the Delay and other effects that come with Cakewalk. Other than that, I can record, etc.

[Max Arwood]

Mute lit up = on 

Solo lit up = on

PDC lit up = on

FX lit up = off - WHY???

It is confusing to new users. I could easily get used to them all meaning the same lit up is = on

Make them all the same.

[57Gregy]

10 hours ago, Max Arwood said:

Mute lit up = on 

Solo lit up = on

PDC lit up = on

FX lit up = off - WHY???

It is confusing to new users. I could easily get used to them all meaning the same lit up is = on

Make them all the same.

Because it's the FX bypass, not the enable FX, I would guess.

[Max Arwood]

Spock said with a stern face - That’s not logical!

[Max Arwood]

Yes, and you don't have to make them so bright. A different color would work as well. If you had a DAW that supported vectors, you could make a nice 3d button that would look like it was pressed down or up ??? lol

[sjoens]

Why be confused when 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, & 10 state buttons used on same GUI?!  

There's bound to be: 
1. Mismarked buttons
 (labels don't convey what button actually does)
2. Broken button states
 (5 state button but only 2 states work, or work backwards)
3. Awkward knob action
 ("hot" areas too small to work efficiently)
4. Inconsistent behavior
 (similar knobs & buttons on same view behave differently for no reason)
5. Mislit buttons
 (on when should be off, never go on or off at all, etc.)
6. Visual misalignment
 (knobs & buttons 1 or 2 pixels off from being visually centered with adjacent or similar items)
7. ???

Would be nice to fix them all, but there's so many like this it would be a full-time job to fix.
Nothing against vector based GUIs, but graphics are easier to repaint & create 3D appearance and "fix" (compensate for) some of the awkwardness.  But we'll find out soon... or later.

Edited September 4, 2023 by sjoens

[Starship Krupa]

BTW, for the aforementioned themes that "fix" the button states, see me sig. All of my Mix Modules have buttons that are "lit" when the feature is "on," and for the "off" states, there is a slash. Actually, as a joke and nod to a local Bay Area band, my FX bypass button has "NO FX" in red when FX are bypassed.

Also, my Simple Instrument tracks show the icon that has both MIDI and Synth together, because that's what Simple Instrument tracks are. The Synth icon is used for Synth tracks, and the MIDI icon is used for MIDI tracks. For the life of me I don't understand why it's the other way around in the standard themes.

[sjoens]

On 9/2/2023 at 10:56 PM, Lord Tim said:

You can do an awful lot with vectors, including some pretty cool 3D looking work, so let's see how it all comes together.

Hopefully.  My attempts at editing SVGs revealed not all are created equal.  I tried using 2 different editors but the results were incompatible with a particular GUI.  The resulting files were also quite a bit larger in MBs.  Whereas a PNG is a PNG is a PNG no matter the tool used to make it.

[sjoens]

After re-reading ↓ this ↓, there may not be any files to play with.

 Could be simply adjusting color, brightness, hue, transparency & etc. of internally coded elements.  Similar to X1-X3.