I agree you with you, seems like the designer took his inspiration from the Cubase VST 5 mixer.
I like yours much better, because you can see things easier.
I favour usability over pure aesthetics in such applications.
Nobody actually looks at such an interface expecting eye candy, what people expect is to be able to get an overall picture at a glance, and quickly identify the setting they want to change/check.
IMO, TotalMix appearance has room for improvement on this side.
A part from that, it rocks, as does the hardware!

Cheers,
Lorcan

Thanks Lorcan. I made a grey one : I forsake it.

Best luck with the SPAM SPAM SPAM! My wife is waiting for the bedroom since few months; I tried to convince her that anyway no such difference in the dark....:-) ...well no luck yet...

@manolo: it could be nice to put jpg instead bmp; it's pretty slow here to get them!

RW

I like the looks... But only Matthias can decide.

Regards
Daniel Fuchs
RME

And if may, one more suggestion: i think the gui could be even clearer and look less cluttered if the horizontal separating bars were simply removed.
Just my opinion ...

Inspired by the first poster, i did a similar job on redesigning my Hammerfall Mixer.

light on the eyes, yet clean and defined. Also it has Digicheck's levelmeter color wich i find very "plasmatic".

I wouldn't call this a 'try'. It's perfect!

How do i go about editing the total mix design? What file(s) to modify, and with which software?

Sorry if this is a stupid question....but i would be interested to give it a shot!

Sam

PS: I really like yours Sander but all the numbers along the faders make it a bit cluttered - i get dizzy! If there was only the numbers for the metering scale it would be better in my opinion - but still keeping the little symbol for 0db on the fader. I really like your Blue one Manolo, very clear and easy on the eye....:) how do i get it on mine???? Cheers

Sam

Hi Sam, you can download Resource Hacker to extract bitmap files and replace them.

Sander, I really like your "try". The thing I don't like is that we don't see the strip channels by 2 : In 1 + In 2, In 3 + In 4 etc... There's no separators. I think the right panel with MASTER, VIEW etc... could be a bit improved . How do you change the font of dB value please ?

It would be cool that each user could submit a skin and that we would have the option to download and choose the one we prefer :-).

Ok Manolo i got that far....so now i need all the little bmp files you made so that i can replace the standard ones with your modified ones no? Or can I just carve up your full mixer example you linked to and use that to replace them? Can i download your little individual BMP's somewhere?

Cheers

Sam

On PC (and perhaps on MAC), the last row of INPUT and PLAYBACK channels is also 1 pixel off to the left. You can see it in my screenshot (the row where "Phones" is written).

Sam, you need my .bmp files. I'll finish the skin (there are some good ideas from Sander fryingpan) and put them online.

Thanks Manolo! Let me know when

you don't need anything special on a osx 10.5 to change the totalmix skin.

just do the following:

- download resource file

- quit totalmix in the dock.

- "show package contents" of fireface app

- replace contents/resources/fireface mixer.rsrc

- restart totalmixer.

goodluck

Like much more that one!  L R visual grouping & leave out the scale numbers.

Best,
rw

how can you "show package" contents in windows xp? or do you need visual basic or something?

Thanks Matthias, the Sander's skin helped me to reach this one :-).

I put an arrow on the graphic bug I reported before :

If in the "Output" row, at the extreme right, we could use an other bitmap than the one to fill the empty "Playback" columns, that would be great fryingpan.

Lol, nothing but I search a way to have only one file that everybody could import with Resource Hacker or an other software. It takes time to replace each bitmap and I'm sure it could be done on one shot. I don't see in Resource Hacker a way to do it in one time. You could export (save) all bitmaps but not the opposite. If someone knows if it's possible, let me know and I'll let the file, if not, I'll let bitmap files in a .zip.

can you only do this on mac?

Manolo, that is just what I've been hoping for. Much clearer and easier on the eyes. Great stuff! Why not just upload your Firefacemix.exe as has already been suggested?

Well, for the .exe, see 2 posts below :-).

Manolo and Sander, for the amazed readers here - patch the current 2.85 and send it to me, I will gladly put it on our website for download so you have no legal and/or bandwidth problems.

thanks manolo i tried it out today and I am sorry to say i must be so shallow as to get excited over things such as this! hehe...no really I find it much easier to see clearly as I am colourblind and all the reds and green in the old mixer would give me a head-ache trying to setup complex routings!

Sam

Wow! Manolo, I see you've become quite the celebrity here.  Too bad you abandoned the grey scheme.  I thought that was your best.

Take care!

I've updated graphics to avoid mismatching between the manual and the reality. So, mute is orange and phase reversal state in blue as you can see in the screenshot (updated). You can find the firefacemix.exe updated at the same link I sent to you.