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[jas_lan]

Because JS is using a "tabbed" GUI, the "real estate" is essentially free. I think the kit looks nice and, more importantly, it brings the product into the same field as other products with fancy graphics IN TERMS OF HOW IT LOOKS. Of course, JS far exceeds other products in how it functions, but some people care about how the product appears when they buy. I want JS to be in high demand and I am sure Ralph does too. So why not make it look nice if it attracts more customers? If you dont care for it, just keep the "song" tab on top. That is where the real magic happens anyway.
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[ckurz_7000]

Agreed. And if you read my previous post I essentially said that. All I care about is that I don't want any essential improvements sacrificed for a not essential one.

As an example I posted a rather long and indepth post in which I described and graphically sketched what I envisioned. I also sent that one example per email to Ralph because he asked me to. So far nobody has commented on that at all.

That very fact worries me.

Call me single minded, call me ungreatful or whatever. I have seen too many products go downhill simply because there was nobody around who paid attention to a sleek userinterface. A well written program scarcely needs a manual. Things are done the way people intuitively do them.

So far, JS3 is a powerful program whose bottleneck is the user interface. People who have been using it a lot (such as many posters on this forum) have no problem with that. But the biggest obstacle to becoming a really great program of widespread use is that JS3 has a very steep learning curve due to a less than intuitive user interface.

So, summing up, I believe that a good user interface does much more to generating revenue for Rayzoon Ltd. than any kind of picture of a drum kit.

-- Chris.

[Ralph [RZ]]

Chris, I've just created a new thread (http://rayzoon2.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7442) concerning your idea so we can keep this thread on general Jamstix 4 Info/Updates.
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[alexis]

[alexis]

[Kevin_W]

I could go either way on the graphics (I think the JS3 are fine), but i wonder if people could please post smaller pictures in the forum. These enormous images make it so I have to zoom and scroll to see the text in the posts, at least on my iPad and phone. Too whiny?

[Kevin_W]

[reggae_greggae]

I'm more curious about what the Bar Editor is going to look like. My own feeling is that while I like the concept of right/left foot/hand, the layout and organization is kind of painful to use if you're on a laptop screen. I'd like to be able to zoom in on that and make it a little bigger.

On the Youtube video at about :40
http://www.rayzoon.com/jamstix3_vid7.html

I'd like to be able to get rid of the left panels and toggle back and forth between the top and bottom.

Also curious how it will integrate with the new Midi mapping for alternative kits. Not sure if that encompasses custom labels for the specific notes they offer. But it would be nice if you could configure it you could tie specific Midi notes to a specific hand foot, and when you RMB on that cell it shows the label. That way for kits with say, a bunch of different snare or high hat options you can divvy them up between hands.

I know, you're supposed to let the programming do it. But there are times when I want to let the generator get close but then say, I want it like *this*. So I flip back and forth between general an manual. And if you sometimes use kits like EZDrummer going over to Cubase Elements has actually been easier to do than with the current editor. I'd be a lot more inclined to stay in Jamstix all the time if the editor didn't seem as much of an afterthought.

[reggae_greggae]

And while I'm bitching, I'd like to have a niceer interface for adding third party midi. If you have a long path, it will get cut off and you have to kind of remember what you added and where. It would be nice if it had a better visual representation of the drum hierarchy. Or better yet, if you could assign some kind of an alias/shortcut or label to a path it cut down on the length. So you wind up with something like EZD Funk Classic rather than the full path on disk.

[reggae_greggae]

Also wonder if there was any thought about putting feature requests on github or something? I know it's a code repository(I use it as such), but I notice that real feature request discussions always seem to get swallowed up in a lot of noise and I wonder if some valid ideas/suggestions/bugs get missed. Might be a way of distinguishing and prioritizing real requests from some of the standard chatter. Not that I'm against chatter but from a developer's perspective it can muddy the water.

[alexis]

[reggae_greggae]

[stpete111]

[stpete111]

Although I've been a proponent of the "don't focus so much on what the dang drumkit looks like" mentality, I do need to second and third the posts stressing the need for major changes in the intuitive use department as it pertains to making any manual tweaks outside of the groove/sound JS produces for you.

[r_poncher]