my suggestions Simon....

1..keep the gui simple as far as possible..(kiss concept...not overly busy) because i worry about new users who might be turned off by a too busy gui and walk away.
(yes i know its a challenge.)
reason being today we have become a 'gimme now' society so often apps with tons of features its a challenge for any dev to satisfy 'gimme now'.
(some people also wont read manuals...another developer challenge.)
2..maybe lessons can be learnt from an analogy....lol..
i knew once this great cafe in london with great grub...highly popular but it needed a makeover as some people werent going into it. it was a a 'workers caf'.
so the owner did a great new 'storefront' ...however some people still didnt go into it because it was the same inside.
conclusion...and imho...its ok to have a new gui (storefront) however also i feel ideally bb menus and dialogs etc etc and various user displays ie anything the user interracts with needs consideration ALSO...so like the cafe people dont get past the fancy new gui only to walk out.
frankly Simon i dont envy you guys...its a tremendous task imho for any developer
to renovate a legacy app. we often failed in industry.
huge kudos if you pull it off...very difficult to keep every user happy.
3..please consider us vision impaired in any redesign Simon.
4..one aspect i like about the bb vst plugin/standalone even though i dont use it is its not overly 'flashy'. so...when it comes to a new gui i would suggest not 'over the top'. what puts me off some music apps is too much 'flash'...ie as one person said to me once 'its not a video game' when we tried certain things.

i'll post some more ideas as i think of them.
oh i forgot...if some user screen commonality tween bb and rb could be implemented this might help new users in the learning cycle ??

hth/happiness.

om (ex developer and lousy programmer...)

Last edited by justanoldmuso; 01/16/25 05:54 PM.
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