I also miss the wide waveforms. I think something like this would make a good 4-deck layout with tall and wide waveforms:
[master gain][balance][head mix][head gain][4/2 deck toggle] [Deck 1][Deck 1/2 mixer][Deck 2] waveform 1 waveform 2 waveform 3 waveform 4 [Deck 3][Deck 3/4 mixer][Deck 4] If that's not clear, I can hand draw a sketch and take a picture of it. I think there's a lot of room for saving space on the deck controls. The big grid of numbered buttons and + & - sign buttons could be replaced by a two digit display with up/down arrows for doubling/halving loop/beatjump size, which would also map well to controllers that have encoders for adjusting this parameter. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/mixxx/+bug/1429331 . The play/pause button could take half the width if it was replaced by a button that toggled between a play icon when the track is paused and a pause icon when the track is playing. Shrinking the room taken by loop controls could make room for moving the hotcue buttons down to the row with the loop and playback controls. The effect superknob may even be able to squeeze there too. This would eliminate the need for the row above the artist text for those who do not need vinyl controls showing. For those who do, those vinyl control buttons with text labels could take up less space if they were replaced by icons. I think the whole bottom row for the decks, or at least elements of it, could be hideable too because a lot of controllers show those on the controller surface. I'd like my 1366x768 pixel laptop screen be used to only to show what my controller can't with knobs and backlit buttons--which is mostly waveforms, track information, and the library--so I can make those things as big and easy to see as possible. On 06/04/2015 02:01 PM, Owen Williams wrote: > I think we should come up with some sort of standard effect rack > template that all the skins can share (and theme as necessary) but I'm > not sure we can do that in time for release. > > There is currently not enough room for big waveforms and the mixer and > also 4 decks. At low resolutions, it's already impossible to show every > UI element, and the skin system is not flexible enough to allow for > every possible combination of elements. So the design is a best-effort > at letting people choose a good layout. Ultimately if there's a skin > design you want that isn't possible, it may be necessary to create a new > skin for it. For a while I was maintaining LateNight-Wide, which had > all four decks horizontally and the waveforms at the top, spanning the > width of the screen. Maybe it's time to resurrect that. > > On Thu, 2015-06-04 at 18:40 +0000, re-cy...@hushmail.com wrote: >> Owen, >> >> I've been using the LateNight resizeable skin and I have a couple >> of issues: >> >> Can we get a thing where the effects bank can optionally get >> minimized, possibly back to the simplistic dials existing >> previously? I'm running out of real estate on all of my screens, I >> don't currently have any hi-res ones. >> >> Related, I kind of hate being forced to choose waveforms vs. mixer, >> and the loss of big waveforms in that skin to begin with. It seems >> to me the reason they got 86'd was the effects bank mentioned above. >> >> Didn't file a bug because this is just my experience/preference, >> but thought you'd want feedback. >> >> ~RAWRR >> >> >> On Thu, 04 Jun 2015 17:53:57 +0000 "Owen Williams" >> <owilli...@mixxx.org> wrote: >>> On Tue, 2015-06-02 at 15:29 -0400, RJ Ryan wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> * skin polish (Jus has an active Deere branch) >>>> >>>> The skins are in kind of bad shape at the moment. They really >>> need >>>> polish to bring them to design bar that we set pretty high with >>>> 1.11.0. >>> >>> >>> You mention skins are in a bad shape -- can you file bugs for >>> issues you >>> know about? I've been fixing the LateNight bugs as they are >>> reported >>> and I think things are in a pretty good state there. >>> >>> We really need to get the Deere stuff merged in, though. >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> ----------- >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Get Mixxx, the #1 Free MP3 DJ Mixing software Today >>> http://mixxx.org >>> >>> >>> Mixxx-devel mailing list >>> Mixxx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Get Mixxx, the #1 Free MP3 DJ Mixing software Today > http://mixxx.org > > > Mixxx-devel mailing list > Mixxx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Get Mixxx, the #1 Free MP3 DJ Mixing software Today http://mixxx.org Mixxx-devel mailing list Mixxx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
