Resonic Labs

This is a showcase for development tests, ideas, experiments, and of course user suggestions. Features depicted here might or might not end up in release versions of Resonic.

If you like a particular feature don't hestitate to comment on it! You feedback helps improve and shape Resonic!

# 000032 – May 22, 2013 @17h

A-B repeat feature for all versions of Resonic.

# 000030 – May 13, 2013 @17h

Experimenting with custom message dialogs to work around some usability problems,
and to also be more flexible with the content being shown.

# 000028 – April 22, 2013 @18h

Digital silence visualization in Resonic Pro will let you quickly spot parts that are actually silent, which is especially useful when setting selections. Here you see a kick loop, some percussion, and hats with occasional dips to zero.

Also works with multi-channel files.

# 000026 – April 10, 2013 @23h

This new notification bar sits at the bottom of the main window.

Starting with Alpha 8xx all the annoying message popups will go here, showing you what's going on,
without blocking the rest of Resonic – and you, operating it.

# 000024 – April 1, 2013 @13h

Marker support for Resonic Pro, slowly evolving.

# 000022 – March 28, 2013 @11h

Customizable columns, new column types, and highlighted sort column, coming to you with the next Resonic release.

# 000020 – March 10, 2013 @20h

Reworking visualization/waveform painting from scratch to work around some serious performance issues on Windows 7/8.

This is the first waveform draft I came up with.

# 000018 – March 3, 2013 @2h

Experimenting with customizable interface elements.
In this example header, info bar, footer, and left panel are all disabled.

# 000016 – February 23, 2013 @5h

Experimenting with loops and selections.

# 000014 – February 17, 2013 @18h

Solid-color background, solid-color wave with higher-resolution.

# 000012 – February 2, 2013 @6h

A Resonic Pro proof of concept: Semitone-based pitch changing and bending.

# 000010 – January 31, 2013 @20h

Experimenting with dynamic breadcrumb navigation.

# 000008 – January 31, 2013 @5h

Peak hold for level meter (peak programme meter), intended to be used in Resonic Pro.

# 000006 – January 28, 2013 @22h

Minimalistic outlined waveform.

# 000004 – January 28, 2013 @6h

Designing the preferences window and its menu.
Also, a first glimpse at the global hotkeys feature with its extremely simplified interface. No bloat, remember.

# 000002 – January 27, 2013 @15h

Different menu button.

# 000031 – May 16, 2013 @1h

So far Resonic uses
- blue symbols for lossless files (e.g. wav, aif, flac, ape)
- orange symbols for lossy files (e.g. mp3, mp4, ogg)
- green symbols for music files (e.g. xm, it)

Some new file list icons describing the channel count will be introduced in the next update. This simple, yet unique system ultimately lets you differentiate between lossless, lossy, music, mono, stereo, and multichannel files just by looking at the symbol.

The file list can also be sorted by the symbol.

# 000029 – May 2, 2013 @3h

Reworking the volume control for better usability, faster painting, remembers volume during sessions, shows muted volume, does smooth volume changes, shows deciBels in Resonic Pro instead of the percentage, just to name a few things.

# 000027 – April 19, 2013 @2h

The music library is taking shape.

Since the concept of Resonic is based on folder playback libraries will always be completely optional, and they won't be slowing down the application. It's up to the users what they want to use, and when they want to use it.

On the Pro side there's something similar cooking, but with a completely different focus.

# 000025 – April 8, 2013 @19h

One of the many ideas regarding searching and filtering.

# 000023 – March 31, 2013 @13h

Resonic visualizing and playing a 96 kHz 24-bit 6-channel SACD WAV / compressed FLAC.
Also shown, multi-channel peak hold level meter.

# 000021 – March 26, 2013 @6h

Pro: A little work on peak hold and peak value display.

# 000019 – March 3, 2013 @4h

A first glimpse at the powerful theming system. Although very low on the priority list it is already starting to take shape.

# 000017 – March 3, 2013 @2h

Experimenting with customizable interface elements.

# 000015 – February 17, 2013 @21h

The demoscene is near and dear to me. (Wikipedia, scene.org).

It's basically been around me since the early beginnings on C64 and Amiga and I've had my time in the PC scene, composing tracks with Pro Tracker, Scream Tracker 3, and later on with Impulse Tracker.

Proper MOD support in Resonic is not just important to me, but I'd also like to push the way module music is visualized.

Here's a preview of the timeline in tracks mode:

# 000013 – February 3, 2013 @3h

Permanent delete markings. An upcoming feature for all versions of Resonic.

# 000011 – February 1, 2013 @4h

Folder bookmarks, quite an essential feature.

# 000009 – January 31, 2013 @5h

Compact seek bar idea.

# 000007 – January 28, 2013 @22h

Loudness-based fluid waveform, intended to be used in Resonic Pro.

# 000005 – January 28, 2013 @10h

Read and display ratings.

Trying to stay compatible with Windows Media Player / Explorer, iTunes, MediaMonkey, and the Quick Tagger component. What all of these have in common is thinking it's absolutely hilarious to use 10 different ways of describing the same thing.

# 000003 – January 28, 2013 @3h

Minimalistic outlined analyzers with progress bar in background.

# 000001 – January 26, 2013 @22h

Play progress bar behind analyzers. The bar has a lower alpha for added subtlety.

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