Moog Minitaur

[Paul Maddox]

Ibisum,

ok, so, take all the features of tempest, and design a front panel.
just a sketch, I'm very keen to see your idea.

Paul

On 10 Jan 2012, at 19:13, ibisum wrote:

> 
>> Tempest wasn't a small box ;)
>> http://www.vacoloco.net/synths/tempest/
>> 
> 
> Tempest is a terrific project, I have lusted to hear it and see it since
> the very first pics I saw .. I only never liked the color-scheme .. 
> 
> 
> 
> <rant>
> 
> I think the panels ought to have a color-flow that fit the process of
> the engine, a moving motif of color, and possibly form, as the signal
> path goes over the surface.
> 
> As a motif the grid layout sells the technological aspect, certainly,
> but the physical positions of the knobs and dials could be a little less
> dialectic and more plain descriptive.
> 
> By form, I mean that the panels are currently rather industriously
> arranged equi-distant, perhaps as a style of conformity design influence
> (technical panels), but I believe there is an opportunity for
> user-intuition being lost by not, for example, devoting a proportionally
> larger amount of space for the more important bits, and less for the
> less. Consider each panel a word, and each knob/dial element a
> character/vowel/consonant.  As a grid-layout, the 'words' of the process
> flow (described as a sentence) don't really kern well.    
> 
> Lose the grid and focus on what each bit means, most of all, to the
> process of the sound, and place accordingly.  Humans adjust quickly to
> the recti-linear dimensions, but I believe that our arms, wrists, and so
> on, tend towards a radial spheroid in terms of degrees of motion.  I
> elbow my way over the keys with a wide, fat panel like tempest-proto,
> but when my elbow stays in place, such as when I'm sitting down or at a
> desk, I can swing wide with the whole arm.
> 
> So aesthetically, I'd see rather than a grid-layout, a more organic and
> 'swoosh'y style, with a bit of flair perhaps.  It doesn't *have* to be
> grid-aligned; its entirely arbitrary.  
> 
>> I need to start small before I can grow big, but the reason I replied, which bit puts you off?
>> That the Aesthetics comes after the function?
> 
> Aesthetics, most certainly, trumps all when it comes to an instrument.
> Even the most brilliantly laid out instruments will have no future if
> they sound crap.  Or, a crap sounding instrument can persist on the
> basis of a brilliant interface.  The difference on the scales is purely
> an aesthetic decision on the part of the owner, who must use it or not,
> either way.
> 
>> 
>> Don't get me wrong form and function are closely related, but I wonder how much form affects the way you "use" a synth, it certainly doesnt affect the sound, but it could perhaps affect the way you "approach" or "use" a synth.
>> 
>> Sorry, I think I'm talking drivvel, I'm just really puzzled what gives something a "OMG I need that" just from it's form.
> 
> 
> You are a brilliant person, I don't want to ever give you the impression
> you talk drivel, but if I am a source of drivel, please feel free to
> mention it.  ;)
> 
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