selig wrote: ↑24 Jan 2022
Great idea!
Feedback from an old codger, just ignore this and I'll crawl back into my hole:
I would put the filters on the input, not the output, so you can remove stuff BEFORE it hits the compressor. Or even better, add a button to switch between the two options on each band.
I would prefer the defaults for the compressors to allow compression as soon as you turn them on, so you don't have to adjust ANY knobs before hearing SOME compression. As it is, you must turn On the compressor, and then adjust Ratio AND Threshold before you can even begin to hear any compression, which is compounded by the fact you must do it four times (eight knob adjustments AND four button pushes in total) before you can hear compression on all bands.
Finally, I make the size of the knobs based on how much you use them and how fine control you need. The MOST used knobs for me on multi-band compression are the Band Level knobs. The crossovers are often set early on and do not change much, but the level controls are constantly adjusted, even before compression is added in many cases and often in small increments. So I would make the level knobs the big ones, not the crossover knobs. And some of the least adjusted knobs (for me) are the biggest (input/output): do you consider these the most important knobs/function on the UI, and if not then which are the most important (the crossovers?)?
And finally, what do the colors red and green represent on this device? Seems the on/off buttons are red, except for the Peak/RMS are red but on t on off, and the Slow/Fast Attack button is green, in what appears to be arbitrary rather than function based decisions. On/off should be one color, function selectors (slow/fast, peak/rms) another IF you want color to define function. Otherwise, what are you using color to define here?
Your UI has three different knob designs (four if you count the ones with buttons on them) and four different button styles on this one device. Every device in your combinator as one knob and one button design (Line Mixer has two sizes of the same knob design), which is spartan for sure, but cleaner design makes for easier functioning IMO. It's like using a bunch of different fonts for page design, it can get cluttered and non-intuitive quickly IMO.
That's it, I don't want to imply ANY of this is a hard/fast rule you MUST follow, it's just one man's opinion among many, take it or leave it!
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