[Feature Request] Please leave the user option to choose changes

Software Instruments Pigments
#1

This is a generic comment that all software developers (and marketeers…) should apply: when you change some user interface details, leave the option for users to adopt it or not. A simple check box in a Preferences menu does the job…
OK there are some instances when it is difficult to apply this essential rule, I understand. But here is an example where you should have done it:
in Pigments 7, the Macro buttons have changed and I simple hate the new ones. Some may love them. But please give us the option to choose. And this is just one example…
Thanks!
P.S. I love Pigments, and evangelized a lot of musicians to use it. Please don’t break the charm…

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#2

Hey @drmad

Thanks for the suggestion, tweaked your post title slightly, so The Arturia Devs will be more likely to see it.

HTH!

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#3

Thanks for the feedback, I have logged the request on our side.

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#4

+1 for OP’s request, I think the previous macro knobs were better. Something like a knob at 1 o’clock is much more memorizable when tweaking macros than the more abstract approach with the growing centered dots.

By the way, have you ever considered creating a hardware version of Pigments? Since this is your flagship synthesizer that would be probably a great investment into the future, and Pigments as a hardware synthesizer would easily claim the throne of modern hardware synths.

If you could get the mod-matrix design with the colors and drag and drop to carry over, that would be revolutionary for how people do modulations without cables on a HW synth.

For instance, there could be a mod matrix button, and if we touch it, we can just grab any of the modulators from the mod matrix at the middle of the synth (touch-recognition) and move any knob to dial in the modulation amount, with the same color-coded circles around the destination knob, just as in the software.

Something like that would be incredibly cool, as it solves the usual hassle with using modulations on a HW synth, while offering all the HW benefits in the same time. Pigments as it is really offers the best UI out there for me, it’s a big pleasure to work with.

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#5

thanks for your feedback! interesting, I have shared with the team.

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#6

I recently read the statement “good design serves users, not designers”. Some of the more recent changes (enforced label text case, the new expanding macro circles, preset category background images, Play screen visualizations) feel like examples of “cool design” that just make the application less coherent and more difficult for users.

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#7

+1 for OP and +1 for “good design serves users, not designers.” The new macro knobs do not serve me well for live improvisation where utility beats “cool looking.”

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