Sooo.... What did everyone get? (Not A Deal, Full Kontakt Not Required)

[kitekrazy]

2 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

Saverio gives the user the choice of using the omnibus installer or not. So depending on your comfort level with installers, how many licenses you own, you get to choose what method you think works best. Would that they all operated that way.

Are his UI's "bland?" I guess they are compared to IK Multimedia T-RackS. They're flat, but have color.

Ever notice most plugins in a DAW never win an eye candy award.

I am always attracted to Live's 8bit look.

All of those former Sony now Magix,  I always want the GUI look like it was 20 years ago.

[Starship Krupa]

1 hour ago, kitekrazy said:

I always want the GUI look like it was 20 years ago

What did you think of the Addictive Drums 2 facelift of a couple years ago? Going from that faux brushed aluminum 3-D fantasy spaceship control panel paradigm to the current crisp, flat look.

I neglected AD2 for a long time because the UI made me feel like if I turned away and then looked back it would be 1992 and I'd be running GeoWorks on a 386. I made a new skin for Session Drummer 3 so that I didn't have to look at that faux metal panel complete with drop shadows and two little vents (or speaker grills) up at top left and right. Putting vents in the panel of something that's not even supposed to resemble an actual real world object is weird. It's worse than rack screws on FX plug-in panels.

No wonder so much recent music has been so boring. The people who designed our music software UI's once dreamed of sending us to the stars. No wonder that the music made now sounds two dimensional like the current UI fashion.😁

Seriously, I reeeeeallly don't like the embossed metallic plastic 3-D look for software UI's in 2025. Maybe it was the hot thing 20 years ago but we now seem to have less need for our computer programs to look like physical objects.

I used to tease Acoustica about the "woodgrain" side panels on Mixcraft's mixer. Maybe I'll live long enough to feel nostalgia for that sort of thing.

Or....do you mean the Spartan, plain, homely as hell look, like the DXi plug-ins that still ship with Vegas Pro and Sound Forge? The ones that make the Sonitus fx suite look fancy? The ReaPlugs look. I think AirWindows must be the masters of that, where the plug-ins don't even have UI's, rather it's supplied by the DAW presenting the user with a generic page of labeled sliders. Do most DAW's even still let you run plug-ins using the "generic" UI?

It might be fun to try a few modern plug-ins with the generic UI turned on just to see how they look. Especially something weird like Motion: Fractal or whatever.

[Cookie Jarvis]

Personally I hate the flat cartoon thing. I like a mixer to look like a mixer, a compressor to look like one, etc. I have Abelton Lite....opened it once and thought it was nice that Fisher-Price had a music application for children

Moving the unicorns tale to increase volume or rotating the triangle with the dot in it to increase modulation isn't something I'm going to do.

Nostalgia on the other hand is fun....the old Cakewalk and Cubase interfaces, the really cool synths(at least we thought so for the times), just making music on the computer was such a good feeling! But over the years I've gotten more serious about creating music and need an environment conducive to that...but that's me

Edited 2 hours ago by Cookie Jarvis
The word on does not have an i in it :)

[Salvatore Sorice]

I have Izotope/Native Instruments Music Production Suite 6. They're offering me upgrade to 8 for $275.40

Anyone have 8? If so, think it is materially better than 6 and worth that price?