Ableton GUI : (

Poster · Post by **Poster** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 11:39 am

besides all functional advantages..

Live GUI = trademark = strong selling point..

c'mon.. shades?

heavensdaw · Post by **heavensdaw** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 11:53 am

Do NOT adjust your set!

Hd

bodo · Post by **bodo** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 12:37 pm

I'm still in love with its GUI, it is really a design classic that won't go away any time soon I think.

hoffman2k · Post by **hoffman2k** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 12:55 pm

We need a Little Big Planet style GUI!
Clips made out of wood, Waveforms made out of rubber, Knobs made out of sponge and the volume meters will obviously be fire behind a pane of glass.

abort · Post by **abort** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 4:39 pm

Emissary wrote:The day they change the GUI is the day i stop using live. its the Best thing ever.

I'm still using live but without the glitter.

Sometimes I like eye candy when I'm feeling blah! But I already knew how most of you felt about changing the gui. No harm intended!

Here's a new skin That I created as a token of my broken wishes.

===> http://www.creepyill.com/brownblack.ask

estevan carlos benson · Post by **estevan carlos benson** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 4:51 pm

condra wrote:Abort, for about two years here I've been part of the (misunderstood) minority of people who lobby for an improved GUI, or at least the option to turn on some sort of texturing or shading.

It's completely futile as unfortunatly you will always get shouted down by a reactionary majority who think you want to make Live look like Reason.

They usually miss the point that some subtle shading, texturing and gradiation is actually very useful in interface design, and can easily look quite tasteful.

I cant see Ableton implimenting it, in Live 8, but we will know very soon. They could at least assign different colours to the "Track Display" area and "Track Title Bar area in Arrangement view. This and some gentle gradient use on waveforms would make a big difference for starters IMO.

On a serious note I can only see the use of gradation used for the sake of focus when selecting an item. Gradation would also be nice for showing strength in input and items (the amount of loudness, cutoff, etc). But honestly, outside of expressing information like that I don't any good use for those things outside decoration. I hear what you're saying. I wouldn't mind be able to customize it a bit myself. I guess why I also like the GUI so much is that it's the LEAST distracting of the GUIs I have ever seen. It many ways it is just plain and inoffensive which sometimes is very hard to do.

Geebag · Post by **Geebag** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 7:27 pm

Is there a way to change the font colour on some of the darker skins?

I also would be nice to be able to stretch some of its own instruments up for a bit more screen space.

The sequencer could do with an update in resolution etc and I would prefer if the sound images changed colour with the appropriate bar.

Other than that it is great.

leedsquietman · Post by **leedsquietman** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 8:00 pm

Coming from the relatively glossy interface of Cubase SX3 to Live was a bit of a culture shock - but in the 2+ years I've had Live, I've really grown to like the interface a lot.

I say leave as is and concentrate the programming on the many other features and functions that are a priority.

lola · Post by **lola** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 8:49 pm

I am still for a GUI chooser.

A new fancy GUI for the one's who want that ( like me )
And the old GUI.

Both party's satisfied.

djsynchro · Post by **djsynchro** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 11:57 pm

Here's your GUI chooser:

Logic (Mac only)
Cubase (Both)
Reason (Oooooh! Wiggly cables)
And so forth
And so on

Just have a good look at the Ableton rotary knobs.... aah so minimal functional easy on the eyes informative beautiful.
Ain't NEVER gonna be no bullshit-fake 3D shadows in Live!!!! No shiny metal! No rusty screws! No woody sides! No glassy glass!!! Thank the Lord for people who think different!!!!!!

lola · Post by **lola** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 2:10 am

djsynchro wrote:Here's your GUI chooser:

Logic (Mac only)
Cubase (Both)
Reason (Oooooh! Wiggly cables)
And so forth
And so on

Just have a good look at the Ableton rotary knobs.... aah so minimal functional easy on the eyes informative beautiful.
Ain't NEVER gonna be no bullshit-fake 3D shadows in Live!!!! No shiny metal! No rusty screws! No woody sides! No glassy glass!!! Thank the Lord for people who think different!!!!!!

What are you wining about?, with a chooser you can actually make a choice.
So you can stick to your old GUI.

siddhu · Post by **siddhu** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 2:54 am

estevan carlos benson wrote:It may just be your opinion. They're GUI in my opinion is the smartest, most practical around. I personally don't like my audio applications to visually mimic the look of either the real instrument or the traditional hyper chrome, gaudy, thing. No bevel. No shade. little chrome. thank you.

+1

leedsquietman · Post by **leedsquietman** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 2:58 am

The reason we don't want a GUI chooser is that it takes away valuable resources from other areas that need fixing or improving as a PRIORITY.

Live's GUI is skinnable. There are some pretty good skins around.

If that's not enough, and the current GUI is so perverse, then there are plenty of alternatives out there ....

If the program was already perfected and needed nothing else, then by all means make a GUI chooser - but ask people if they'd rather have MIDI issues fixed, or folder tracks, or session view automation if they'd mind waiting while we implement a GUI chooser - what do you think the majority would vote for ????

siddhu · Post by **siddhu** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 3:04 am

ilia wrote:the GUI shall not be touched!

This should be the First Commandment of Ableton....Burned onto a giant, solid silicon slab by Robert Henke himself as part of some strange ritual involving Gerhard Behles, the cloaked and hooded engineers of Ableton, and a flaming Monodeck at the Watergate club in Berlin.

djsynchro · Post by **djsynchro** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 4:19 am

It's beautiful and minimal,
To change it would be criminal!