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Azusa 🌻 (hill of sunflowers) — 19:26
I'm going to kill myself
[screenshot of a marketing page for the music production plugin “Kontakt 8”, showing an interface that primarily consists of two glowing blue and pink orbs for some reason]
why is every vst an orbulator now
kanbaru suruga | の夢 — 19:27
one reason we've kind of avoided getting into plugins is that their UI designs tend to be… Like That
average plugin screenshot is like
80% photo of piano, to remind you of the fact that you are using a piano VST, which sounds like a piano, and is sampled from a piano, which was very expensive by the way, also to ensure whoever sees a screen recording of your producing session will know, for sure, that you are using a piano VST, a very nice-looking piano VST because it has the piano in it, the fancy piano, that you want, so you will buy the VST—
20% actual user interface](https://social.noyu.me/fileserver/01K5XEEZF4A486Z2PRS7NHG169/attachment/small/01K31PEARCGBZ9C7C7DSRFHM51.jpg "Discord conversation screenshot:
Azusa 🌻 (hill of sunflowers) — 19:26
I'm going to kill myself
[screenshot of a marketing page for the music production plugin “Kontakt 8”, showing an interface that primarily consists of two glowing blue and pink orbs for some reason]
why is every vst an orbulator now
kanbaru suruga | の夢 — 19:27
one reason we've kind of avoided getting into plugins is that their UI designs tend to be… Like That
average plugin screenshot is like
80% photo of piano, to remind you of the fact that you are using a piano VST, which sounds like a piano, and is sampled from a piano, which was very expensive by the way, also to ensure whoever sees a screen recording of your producing session will know, for sure, that you are using a piano VST, a very nice-looking piano VST because it has the piano in it, the fancy piano, that you want, so you will buy the VST—
20% actual user interface")
![Discord conversation screenshot:
Azusa 🌻 (hill of sunflowers) — 19:26
I'm going to kill myself
[screenshot of a marketing page for the music production plugin “Kontakt 8”, showing an interface that primarily consists of two glowing blue and pink orbs for some reason]
why is every vst an orbulator now
kanbaru suruga | の夢 — 19:27
one reason we've kind of avoided getting into plugins is that their UI designs tend to be… Like That
average plugin screenshot is like
80% photo of piano, to remind you of the fact that you are using a piano VST, which sounds like a piano, and is sampled from a piano, which was very expensive by the way, also to ensure whoever sees a screen recording of your producing session will know, for sure, that you are using a piano VST, a very nice-looking piano VST because it has the piano in it, the fancy piano, that you want, so you will buy the VST—
20% actual user interface](https://social.noyu.me/fileserver/01K5XEEZF4A486Z2PRS7NHG169/attachment/original/01K31PEARCGBZ9C7C7DSRFHM51.png "Discord conversation screenshot:
Azusa 🌻 (hill of sunflowers) — 19:26
I'm going to kill myself
[screenshot of a marketing page for the music production plugin “Kontakt 8”, showing an interface that primarily consists of two glowing blue and pink orbs for some reason]
why is every vst an orbulator now
kanbaru suruga | の夢 — 19:27
one reason we've kind of avoided getting into plugins is that their UI designs tend to be… Like That
average plugin screenshot is like
80% photo of piano, to remind you of the fact that you are using a piano VST, which sounds like a piano, and is sampled from a piano, which was very expensive by the way, also to ensure whoever sees a screen recording of your producing session will know, for sure, that you are using a piano VST, a very nice-looking piano VST because it has the piano in it, the fancy piano, that you want, so you will buy the VST—
20% actual user interface")
for comparison, here's what our favourite VST UI looks like… this modded version of Yamaha's venerable S-YXG50, which in this case is playing back a Yamaha Music Data Store MIDI of 『Looking Up』 by Mukaiya Minoru. you will notice the UI has no controls whatsoever, only info ^^
(you can listen to said MIDI here: https://x.com/OnlyMIDIs/status/1713585530066333791)
@hikari orbulators are cool but the orbs should be actual controls