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+2 votes
I picked up the Waverazor demo and played with it for about half an hour. I had so much fun with it, and was able to coax out such incredible sounds, that I went right back to the website and bought it! I'm normally an analog guy, and I can honestly say I've never been this excited about a virtual instrument. It even inspired me to go buy a decent keyboard controller so I could fully explore it.

Now, I'm not a particularly skilled musician, and I can't tell you exactly what it is about Waverazor that speaks to me as it does, but I'm in love. Keep up the great work! I'm really looking forward to the full editor version. There were a couple of times I was thinking, "man, if I could just combine this section of that patch with that section of this patch, it would be perfect!"

And please consider adding an "Advanced" tab to the editor any time you're faced with the choice between exposing parameters and reducing complexity. :)
asked Aug 5, 2017 in Waverazor by krjackson (140 points)

2 Answers

+1 vote
Well, I have to say this just made my day.  :)  Thanks for taking the time to contact us, and I'm so glad you're enjoying Waverazor!

The idea of an "Advanced" tab is quite interesting to me in the sense that there may need to be several levels of complexity management in our user interface.  We'll have to see how it feels.  I had been thinking that it would be sufficient to have the main performance page, and then an edit button for access to all the parameters, but Waverazor is complex enough under the hood that we may need additional ways of compartmentalizing.  It probably won't end up being an "Advanced" tab specifically, but we might need...  something.

What gives me pause is that we are trying something quite different in our editor interface, which will already present information in a really efficient way.  It's something that I've never seen done before in a synth, but seems like the right path for us since we have such a large parameter count to manage, in addition to several areas that are quite scalable (oscillator segments, modulations, filter and effect bank structures).  We think we've come up with a design solution that is pretty innovative and futuristic, and will make it all flow.  Again, we'll have to see how it all feels once we're farther along.  Ideally, we don't want to put up dividing walls (i.e. an advanced partition) if we don't have to, because that could potentially slow things down for a sound designer.

Anyway, I can't wait for you to see what we have cooking!  Hopefully, we'll have much more to discuss when the editor release is out.  At MOK, we see the relationship between instrument maker and musician as a collaboration aimed at making the instrument the best it can possibly be.  Once again, thanks so much for taking the time to give us your input and support.  We really appreciate it!

All the best,

Taiho
answered Aug 5, 2017 by taiho (9,320 points)
This sounds great! I'm very intrigued now, and happy to hear you're not planning to "dumb things down" (reduce access to stuff) to get an "easy" (or fashionable) UI. I've seen this happening in the software world recently, where UI/UX has started to take a front seat to actual functionality.

I can't wait to see what you guys are cooking up!
0 votes
Echo'ing Taiho's comments... thanks for putting a big smile on my face today, and really happy to hear you are having a good time with Waverazor.    Sometimes when we come up with something, we know we like it, but aren't quite sure how people will react, so it is always wonderful to hear comments like this.

Taiho covered the editor plans already, so yup, we are working on it, and hopefully we won't need an advanced tab, we'll be able to accomplish things in a straight forward way... hopefully, we'll be really keeping our eye on the speed and clarity of editing when we prototype the thing we have planned.

Many thanks again and best wishes with your music projects!

- Rob
answered Aug 6, 2017 by rob (15,930 points)
Thanks for the well-wishes, and thank you both for your replies. I think it's pretty damn cool that I have an opportunity to chat directly with the folks developing such a cool product!

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