Core Plugin Improvement Requests

[Dave C]

EDIT: Just realized there is a dedicated feedback forum. Please move the post as needed. My apologies new to the new forum (was active for many years on the old ones)

 

A couple things of note about the Core plugins.

I like them overall, especially as they are high DPI, and I assume they have the Sonitus or better sound engines. A good start, however:

The interfaces have a few things that are not improved or even worse than Sonitus:

1) Tiny knobs can be hard to grab. Some graphics elements are tiny even though the window can be made much larger than Sonitus. Strange to have so much empty space on higher DPI plugins. Take a look at FabFilter, which scale beautifully from compact to full screen. Wish Core could go full screen and truly take advantage of vectore drawing.

2) Plugins open without being maximized or holding their window size once closed and reopened. This means if you want the pin thumbtack alwasy visible and the windows as large as possible, you will have to resize every time you open a Core plugin. Most other plugins I use remember their instance size once set.

3) Some of the plugins scale with windows size and some are fixed. Some are much bigger than Sonitus, some are the same small size and harder to use. Not ideal and confusing, and would like to see the whole package updated to a V2 with full screen, larger controls, full mousewheel and shortcut support, etc.

4) Mousewheel does not work in many places. Sonitus allowed setting EQ Q with mousewheel for example. Now we have to use a knob that requires extra mouse click.

5) Tab stops seem to be all reading order, not always the best order. For a multiband anything, tab stops should go vertically within the band before getting to the next band in my opinion.

 

Thanks for listening.

Edited 1 hour ago by Dave C
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