Comprendre looks incredible, almost like Unisum on steroids. And while I love the possibilities in Unisum, I only use it in mastering because you can get completely lost in the configurability as the minutes and hours just tick away. This... I can't even imagine.
The real challenge here is the UI. The visual feedback is great thought a bit dated looking, and based on the videos it seems like it could use some scaling improvements. But I think the feedback visuals are the right track.
The biggest UI issue I see here is in the labeling. For instance, I have no idea how relate a detector formula to some compressor detector that I'm already familiar with (1176, LA2A, etc). I have no idea what the cryptic labels on the buttons do. Even most of the tab labels at the bottom don't make any sense to me at a glance. I also don't think you need the settings values to go 6 decimals deep. Will anyone be able to discern between a setting at 1.139483 versus 1.139485? That's just exposing needless information.
In terms of the manual, I wouldn't bother. IMO, a mouseover with popup descriptors would be far better than stopping what you're doing to dig through a PDF or online manual.
Just spitballing here... For blocking and tackling compressor work, most people, myself included, have a bank of 4-6 compressors than they like for specific tasks, and just reach for the one they know can do the task at hand quickly. But what something like this could be useful for would be as a platform for other plugin developers to leverage to quickly and easily model emulations or novel compressors. So if you provided APIs to the controls and to a bank of visuals, then a downstream developer could use this as a framework and expose whatever controls and visuals he needs to his end user, and also reskin the UI to taste. Or maybe that's just crazy talk. I'm not a developer so not sure if that's feasible as a technical idea or a business model.
Cool idea though. One compressor to rule them all.
The real challenge here is the UI. The visual feedback is great thought a bit dated looking, and based on the videos it seems like it could use some scaling improvements. But I think the feedback visuals are the right track.
The biggest UI issue I see here is in the labeling. For instance, I have no idea how relate a detector formula to some compressor detector that I'm already familiar with (1176, LA2A, etc). I have no idea what the cryptic labels on the buttons do. Even most of the tab labels at the bottom don't make any sense to me at a glance. I also don't think you need the settings values to go 6 decimals deep. Will anyone be able to discern between a setting at 1.139483 versus 1.139485? That's just exposing needless information.
In terms of the manual, I wouldn't bother. IMO, a mouseover with popup descriptors would be far better than stopping what you're doing to dig through a PDF or online manual.
Just spitballing here... For blocking and tackling compressor work, most people, myself included, have a bank of 4-6 compressors than they like for specific tasks, and just reach for the one they know can do the task at hand quickly. But what something like this could be useful for would be as a platform for other plugin developers to leverage to quickly and easily model emulations or novel compressors. So if you provided APIs to the controls and to a bank of visuals, then a downstream developer could use this as a framework and expose whatever controls and visuals he needs to his end user, and also reskin the UI to taste. Or maybe that's just crazy talk. I'm not a developer so not sure if that's feasible as a technical idea or a business model.
Cool idea though. One compressor to rule them all.
Statistics: Posted by billinder33 — Thu Jul 25, 2024 5:48 pm