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I feel like there should be a page in the new interface to see levels/enabled processing while taking the whole screen instead of levels being very small at the top with settings.
Yep, that's planned.
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Audio IO makes super sense in my opinion. For example Audio IO page. Input 1, and Input 2 do not have that much space.
The Multiband compressor's band option placement looks kind of odd in my opinion because I would expect it to take a lot of space than it does sometimes. Making it maximized, it looks so small on the left due to miscellaneous. Then miscellaneous can take too much space for only "Pre-emphasis" which is never touched normally.
A bit of context:
On the Multiband Compressor 1 page, we have two sections.
The top section contains the menus "Levels", "Speeds", "Wideband release gate", "Bands" and "Miscellaneous".
The bottom section contains band controls.
The idea behind these menus, is that by default, they only show what we think (our best guess) most of our users could/should touch.
Anything that is hardly ever used or is too advanced, gets hidden by default.
You can show these advanced settings by clicking the menu header (e.g. "Bands" or "Miscellaneous"), the header has an unfold icon ('>') next to it when there are any hidden settings.
Now it might not be super-duper obvious that there are more settings then immediately meets the eye, but that's the thing: we don't want it to be. We don't want users getting the idea that they are supposed to mess with these settings.
Another point that you make, is that "Bands" looks too small next to Miscellaneous when it is unfolded.
The reason behind that, is that alignment of menus is automatic:
- There's a maximum of three columns
- Try to fit three menus
- If one doesn't fit, wrap everything after it
There's a few extra bits of logic there (the columns always remain equal size, and we try to prevent certain unbalanced situations by preferring 2 rows of 2 over one row of 3 and then a single block, etc).
However, this is the basis.
That means, if "Bands" and "Miscellaneous"
can be fit on one row, they
will be placed on one row.
The reordering code is complicated enough as it is, adding something like "this looks a bit large compared to that" would be undesirable.
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I feel like tabs sometimes are useless. An example of this happening is under System Info. Having Stereo Tool maximized, there is enough space to display "Uptime," but it is under the tab.
On the Scheduler page, I feel like there is so much space while Stereo Tool is maximized that could be used.
They are useful in a sense that we use them to hide stuff. It could be argued that most users probably don't really care about "Uptime", so why have it clutter the page?
About the "Scheduler" page: the page is indeed a bit empty. Which is great.
Users that know what it does and want to use it, won't be bothered by having to open the pop-up page.
Users that don't know it, won't be immediately overwhelmed by the amount of information and buttons and settings and text fields and whatnot.
Also, keep in mind that many users don't maximize ST or have a small monitor.