The Experimental Corner

Continuing selection/cue work, experimenting with creative randomization options.

Spoiler alert ;)

Working on new version numbers for the Beta phase,
and on an update check.

Currently just an idea… drive letter buttons in browser for even faster access to drives.

Progress on multichannel RMS metering.

Alternative take on RMS metering.

Resonic Pro: Experimenting with RMS metering and waveform. This is the very first design and won't be final.

RMS (green) support for level meter is taking shape.

Waveform styles: Classic, Interlace, Plain, Outline

Pitch detection, proof of concept.

All future releases will feature a new stop mode button (i.e. stop after current track) in addition to the play mode button for sequential or random playback.

On Windows 7 and 8 a red icon overlay indicates that playback is about to stop after the current track.

This works with big taskbar icons only.

An essential player feature: track resume.
It remembers the folder, file, and play position when you close Resonic, and resumes playback with a smooth volume fade from where it left off when you start it the next time.

A work in progress feature called 'Keep playing': the play position stays the same when switching files.
Handy to quickly preview a bunch of new tracks, and excellent for comparing different versions of mixes and masters!

A-B repeat feature for all versions of Resonic.

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.

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

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.

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 multichannel files.

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:

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

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

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.

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.

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.

One of the many ideas regarding searching and filtering.

Marker support for Resonic Pro, slowly evolving.

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

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

Experimenting with customizable interface elements.

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

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.

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

Experimenting with loops and selections.

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

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

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

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

Folder bookmarks, quite an essential feature.

Compact seek bar idea.

Experimenting with dynamic breadcrumb navigation.

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

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

Minimalistic outlined analyzers with progress bar in background.

Minimalistic outlined waveform.

Different menu button.