padthv1 - a vee-one suite newb

[rncbc]

Rejoice! The Vee-One family will soon meet its fourth new member: https://padthv1.sourceforge.io/

[beto]

Whoa, excited to try this! Thanks for all the great work on the v1 suite!

[asbak]

Very nice thank you very much!

Regarding the GUI on the Padsynth tab, the Generator, Filter, LFO types and the Reset, Mono & Sync labels are difficult to read because of the dark colour being used. On the Effects tab in the Dynamic box, the Compress and Limiter labels have the same issue.

Could these be made white or changed to a much lighter colour?

[rncbc]

Regarding the GUI on the Padsynth tab, the Generator, Filter, LFO types and the Reset, Mono & Sync labels are difficult to read because of the dark colour being used. On the Effects tab in the Dynamic box, the Compress and Limiter labels have the same issue.

Could these be made white or changed to a much lighter colour?

try changing the widget style theme: menu Help > Configure... > Options > Custom style theme.
otherwise you have an issue with your DE color theme.
cheers

[asbak]

Desktop theme is basic "Linux Mint".

Changing the Help, Configure, Options, Custom Theme settings have no effect. Labels remain unreadable for the items I mentioned (example BPF, LPF, HPF, BRF). LV2 was hosted by Carla, Carla was restarted and LV2 reloaded.

The only thing that seems to have an effect is to change Carla colour scheme from Black to System. Then padthv1 labels are readable, but Carla has a not so nice bright white background.

[rncbc]

The only thing that seems to have an effect is to change Carla colour scheme from Black to System. Then padthv1 labels are readable, but Carla has a not so nice bright white background.

then it's probably a Carla color theme issue.
what about when running stand-alone or on some other LV2 host (jalv, ardour, qtractor, etc.)?
byee

[asbak]

Running it standalone (jalv) padthv1 defaults to a light colour theme and the labels are readable. Changing the colour scheme in padthv1 has no effect.

In Muse 3 padthv1 displays like it does in jalv / standalone, and labels are readable and not too small.

When selecting a Carla dark theme, padthv1 also has a dark theme applied to it and the mentioned padthv1 labels are too dark to be readable. When setting Carla to use a light theme, the mentioned labels in padthv1 are readable but Carla itself has a blindingly white background which doesn't look nice. Changing padthv1 colour schemes when running inside Carla has no effect.

In Ardour, the mentioned padthv1 labels are not dark (the lettering is not dark like it is in Carla) despite a dark theme being applied to padthv1. However in this case the mentioned labels use smaller fonts than most of the other labels and they are difficult to read on a laptop screen due to their too small size. Changing the padthv1 colour schemes in Ardour has no effect.

[rncbc]

Running it standalone (jalv) padthv1 defaults to a light colour theme and the labels are readable. Changing the colour scheme in padthv1 has no effect. [...] Changing the padthv1 colour schemes in Ardour has no effect.

there's no padthv1 color theme but a widget style theme instead: this option renders the whole GUI in a different widget style which might comply (or not) with the parent/inherited/global/system desktop environment color theme. So depending on the system DE, host toolkit and/or custom widget style theme selected you'll end with different results wrt. applied color palette and slightly font sizes.

try with keep custom widget style set to "Fusion" fwiw.
btw. what options do you have in that drop-down list?
byee

[asbak]

Drop down list options:
Help/Configure/Options/Custom Style Theme/default|Breeze|Windows|GTK+|Fusion

It makes no difference which one is selected, it all looks the same (probably stuck on Fusion?)

[rncbc]

Drop down list options:
Help/Configure/Options/Custom Style Theme/default|Breeze|Windows|GTK+|Fusion

It makes no difference which one is selected, it all looks the same (probably stuck on Fusion?)

as prompted by a warning box the new settings only takes effect next time you run or show up the GUI--ie. it's a global user preference setting.

otoh. if you're on basic Mint, I would assume the "default" setting should map as same as "Gtk+" (assuming the DE is gnome); "Fusion" is my favorite and is the one featured on all official screenshots. eg.

padthv1-16.png (159.51 KiB) Viewed 1161 times

hth.
cheers

[EDIT] I've now realized that most of this is moot when dealing with vee-one LV2 plugin forms: the "Custom style theme" configuration setting only takes effect for the stand-alone JACK client form--it does simply nothing for the LV2 plugins GUI widget style whatsoever. Something you made quite evident one time and again. So sorry for the whole trouble and waste of time.

[glowrak guy]

Since a large green kompilosaurus lizard apparently ate the rpm's that Rui usually releases,
I had to go scrounging for a .deb, and found one here:

http://www.stockinger.org/musik.html

The irony started getting thick real fast, as Qtractor segfaulted when it loaded,
but linux Reaper hosted it fine with a Carla-rack You just can't make
these things up

On top of that, IK Multimedia's great Amplitube 4 DID show up in the Qtractor vst scan
for the first time ever, and everything worked fine, in a brief test, and I had made no effort
to forward such an occurrence, must be a random symbolic link I've misplaced,
that Qtractor has truffled for.

But padthv1 sounds wonderful, the scales, filters, waves etc can really be exploited
by a sound designer, which I am not, but some knob noodling is quite revealing!

In reaper-carla, (reaper being a beta/alpha release -depending on *if you're feeling lucky, punk...)
the resonance and cutoff knobs are real jumpy, as punks tend to be, so a limiter on the track is in order.

This padthv1will be a great addition to the linux synth collection!

* forgive the Clint Eastwood movie out-take above, feeling quite jovial
about even such a new and early release,


...punks!

Thanks Mr. Capela, for a great new instrument!