Just bought Pro-Q 4... Can't believe the hype on the UI. The unnecesarily massive sliding gain/frequency/Q thing on the bottom is IN. THE. WAY. It's an eyesore while i'm trying to observe the bloody spectrum underneath it. Why on earth is it good UI design to put a massive floating UI element anywhere vertically on the exact frequency range I'm EQing? Can you imagine the board meeting while planning this?
Ok, so you know those knobs that control gain, freq, and Q for the node that's currently selected? Instead of keeping them out of the way in a bar at the bottom somewhere, let's uNdOcK tHeM!
Oh ok. Good idea! I think? So is this to make the UI cleaner and more minimal? Clear up space on the plugin window to see more of the frequency, uncluttered? — Nope. We're gonna make the dynamic floaty UI huge and stick it on top of the spectrum area.
So then, is this to let the user choose where to put the floaty UI to suit their own workflow? — No. We'll make the floaty UI slide around dynamically!
Oh ok cool. So it'll get out of your way automatically, and intuitively! So I assume if you're working in the 8k range for example, it'll place itself on the left so it's out of the way? — No. We're gonna put it RIGHT AT 8k! Right on top of the waveform at the exact spectrum you're editing!
Can you move it? Hide it? Maybe have an alternative setting, like go back to docked? Maybe docking on the side? Make it disappear? — Yeah! It will disappear!
Oh phew, you were scaring me for a second. So like, when you go back to editing on that 8k node, it'll stay gone so you can now see the spectrum you were targeting, where the floaty UI was covering up before? Right? — NOPE! It'll come right back the second you try to do that! ◡̈
Do your UI people at Fabfilter use your own products? It's beautiful, but it blows fuses in my head to work with this plugin. No — I'm not going to get used to working at 8k while I can't see 8k. Come on!
Just bought Pro-Q 4... Can't believe the hype on the UI. The unnecesarily massive sliding gain/frequency/Q thing on the bottom is IN. THE. WAY. It's an eyesore while i'm trying to observe the bloody spectrum underneath it. Why on earth is it good UI design to put a massive floating UI element anywhere vertically on the exact frequency range I'm EQing? Can you imagine the board meeting while planning this?
Ok, so you know those knobs that control gain, freq, and Q for the node that's currently selected? Instead of keeping them out of the way in a bar at the bottom somewhere, let's uNdOcK tHeM!
Oh ok. Good idea! I think? So is this to make the UI cleaner and more minimal? Clear up space on the plugin window to see more of the frequency, uncluttered? — Nope. We're gonna make the dynamic floaty UI huge and stick it on top of the spectrum area.
So then, is this to let the user choose where to put the floaty UI to suit their own workflow? — No. We'll make the floaty UI slide around dynamically!
Oh ok cool. So it'll get out of your way automatically, and intuitively! So I assume if you're working in the 8k range for example, it'll place itself on the left so it's out of the way? — No. We're gonna put it RIGHT AT 8k! Right on top of the waveform at the exact spectrum you're editing!
Can you move it? Hide it? Maybe have an alternative setting, like go back to docked? Maybe docking on the side? Make it disappear? — Yeah! It will disappear!
Oh phew, you were scaring me for a second. So like, when you go back to editing on that 8k node, it'll stay gone so you can now see the spectrum you were targeting, where the floaty UI was covering up before? Right? — NOPE! It'll come right back the second you try to do that! ◡̈
Do your UI people at Fabfilter use your own products? It's beautiful, but it blows fuses in my head to work with this plugin. No — I'm not going to get used to working at 8k while I can't see 8k. Come on!