Re: What's Happened To the ReGroove Mixer?
Posted: 12 Aug 2021
Ditto also, I prefer the new appearance
I know, how can a really nice looking well designed 3D ReGroove Mixer look as nice as that really flat grey uninspiring Ableton looking new one we have now.guitfnky wrote: β11 Aug 2021not gonna lie--I question the sanity of anyone who prefers the OLD look of the regroove mixer. the ugliest goddamn thing in all of Reason, by an easy mile (and that's really saying something, considering some of the older devices). need to get y'all's eyes checked. no accounting for taste, I guess.
I like the new design, more in line with the whole sequencer. For me it is more consistent now. The sequencer flat design and all the audio/rack stuff skeuomorphic.
if you feel inspired looking at that hideous old thing, I don't even have words. guess you must pine for the golden age of web design too... https://edit.co.uk/blog/top-10-worst-websites/Creativemind wrote: β12 Aug 2021I know, how can a really nice looking well designed 3D ReGroove Mixer look as nice as that really flat grey uninspiring Ableton looking new one we have now.guitfnky wrote: β11 Aug 2021not gonna lie--I question the sanity of anyone who prefers the OLD look of the regroove mixer. the ugliest goddamn thing in all of Reason, by an easy mile (and that's really saying something, considering some of the older devices). need to get y'all's eyes checked. no accounting for taste, I guess.
it would be a good ideajoeyluck wrote: β11 Aug 2021I think it's ok for the ReGroove Mixer. I wish the little "LEDs" above the knobs when activated were easier to see.
I'd also really like it if they would move the Groove settings from the Tool Window into the ReGroove mixer area. There'a a TON of empty space to fill there.
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I don't care much for any of those either, but they all look better than the old regroove mixer. hell, even Ableton, at its ugliest, with its worst possible theme looks better than the old regroove.Edin_16 wrote: β12 Aug 2021Here are some more "flat" designs:guitfnky wrote: β12 Aug 2021
if you feel inspired looking at that hideous old thing, I don't even have words. guess you must pine for the golden age of web design too... https://edit.co.uk/blog/top-10-worst-websites/
https://dribbble.com/tags/flat_ui
I dont like it, that the App-Look is taking over on everything. I hope really ReasoStudios continue to design devices that look like real hardware devices and not this Ableton/Bitwig flat stuff that you see everywhere...
everybody I showed reason (a lot of perople really don't know reason nomore nowdays because of their bad markedting ) are "whoooaw, that looks nice, great devices"
This is a fantastic idea. Always baffled me why you had to use 2 windows to configure groovesjoeyluck wrote: β11 Aug 2021I think it's ok for the ReGroove Mixer. I wish the little "LEDs" above the knobs when activated were easier to see.
I'd also really like it if they would move the Groove settings from the Tool Window into the ReGroove mixer area. There'a a TON of empty space to fill there.
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ReGroove Settings.png
It made sense 14 years ago in R4 when Reason looked like this and ReGroove occupied the whole space from left to right above the transport bar:RobBarnett wrote: β12 Aug 2021This is a fantastic idea. Always baffled me why you had to use 2 windows to configure groovesjoeyluck wrote: β11 Aug 2021I think it's ok for the ReGroove Mixer. I wish the little "LEDs" above the knobs when activated were easier to see.
I'd also really like it if they would move the Groove settings from the Tool Window into the ReGroove mixer area. There'a a TON of empty space to fill there.
Tool Window.png
ReGroove Settings.png
No, those websites are naff. Lol!guitfnky wrote: β12 Aug 2021if you feel inspired looking at that hideous old thing, I don't even have words. guess you must pine for the golden age of web design too... https://edit.co.uk/blog/top-10-worst-websites/Creativemind wrote: β12 Aug 2021
I know, how can a really nice looking well designed 3D ReGroove Mixer look as nice as that really flat grey uninspiring Ableton looking new one we have now.
I've only just noticed that some of the parameters on Mimic don't match the others graphically. No uniformity within the device. The stretch parameters should be the same graphic as the others. Not sure what those lines represent in the Comp either. They look more like EQ curves.Edin_16 wrote: β12 Aug 2021Ok youre right, it makes mybe more sense at the bottom of the sequencer, because its part of it and so it has to look the same. Sounds logical. But I reaslised that there are more amd more logical errors in the design of the new dvices. For example Mimic has some errors, I marked them red. It shoul be like the green marked areas, where its clear that there is a display. The red maked ared very unrealistic, becaus its neither a display nor an analog knob/button/fader so logicalle they are impossible to be dynamic.
OK, the reset button, I dont know, maybe its a button and I am wrong with the red marker.
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maybe they hired a new graphic designer half way because it sure looks like someone who is not consistent in their design choicesEdin_16 wrote: β12 Aug 2021Ok youre right, it makes mybe more sense at the bottom of the sequencer, because its part of it and so it has to look the same. Sounds logical. But I reaslised that there are more amd more logical errors in the design of the new dvices. For example Mimic has some errors, I marked them red. It shoul be like the green marked areas, where its clear that there is a display. The red maked ared very unrealistic, becaus its neither a display nor an analog knob/button/fader so logicalle they are impossible to be dynamic.
OK, the reset button, I dont know, maybe its a button and I am wrong with the red marker.
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Possibly. The designer must have been poached from the Ableton design team.gullum wrote: β12 Aug 2021maybe they hired a new graphic designer half way because it sure looks like someone who is not consistent in their design choicesEdin_16 wrote: β12 Aug 2021
Ok youre right, it makes mybe more sense at the bottom of the sequencer, because its part of it and so it has to look the same. Sounds logical. But I reaslised that there are more amd more logical errors in the design of the new dvices. For example Mimic has some errors, I marked them red. It shoul be like the green marked areas, where its clear that there is a display. The red maked ared very unrealistic, becaus its neither a display nor an analog knob/button/fader so logicalle they are impossible to be dynamic.
OK, the reset button, I dont know, maybe its a button and I am wrong with the red marker.
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Also the contrast with that grey on grey is far worse then before, but I guess UI designers come from the "50 shades of grey fan-club" nowadays. (Another feat of those is to dumb down buttons into grey scale and an abstract icon so the eye has no easy visual cue as to quickly find the button with the right function.)Creativemind wrote: β12 Aug 2021Can't understand the poll results here. Why would anyone like a dot in an oblong slider type thing over a graphic that looks like a proper mixer fader with incrementations and nice looking led light displays. Not to mention the dingey grey colour and flat design.. Don't get it. Would people like that design on the Main Mixer?
Can't speak for anyone else but for me it is that it isn't ugly anymore.Creativemind wrote: β12 Aug 2021Can't understand the poll results here. Why would anyone like a dot in an oblong slider type thing over a graphic that looks like a proper mixer fader with incrementations and nice looking led light displays. Not to mention the dingey grey colour and flat design.. Don't get it. Would people like that design on the Main Mixer?
Agreed. It's attached to the sequencer window after all. The old ReGroove Mixer matched the old transport. It just didn't fit any more. It's not my favorite, but it is better.
If any other elements in Reason adopt that design it will seal the deal of me never using it stand-alone again. Live is the horriblest looking daw going, worse than Reaper without a theme.DaveyG wrote: β12 Aug 2021I haven't voted because there is no option for "Not Bovvered".
A much more interesting poll would be "Do you ever use the regroove mixer?"
Or "Have you ever noticed that tiny button thing at the the bottom of the screen that says 'Groove' and did you know you can click it?"
Or even "Did you know there is a regroove mixer?"
The new look seems to have taken it from "old and outdated" to "too much like Live" but not so much like most other elements of Reason. Maybe other stuff will gradually be revamped to match. I still won't be that bothered though!