GUI design: adventures in Blender.

Peter, I just try your new update.

Now there ist another bug inside: on drawing a cable it snaped back and there is nothing. With a second try the connection is fixed. Please use an empty patch area and to connect outs to ins. It's difficult now.

Please repair it again. Thank you.

the thing you gotta know about Paule making snapshots for your ensemble is that Paule is a snapshot making tour de force, he's an entire factory. and more generally the practice of builders making snapshots for each other's projects is a big part of reaktor culture going back since years. i understand it can be frustrating dealing with snapshots especially on a project needing changes that might break things, but think of the intent as an offer of the basic currency of friendship

also you have to understandthat Paule's greatest passion of all may very well be for the MS-20, and the various versions made of it in reaktor over the years

again, i understand where you're coming from. i'm merely trying to provide context as someone who knows him a bit better about some things i see as possibly contributing to an uncharitable impression. a major one i neglected to mention is a language gap, as paule is a native german speaker who uses translate features. i've found this informs almost everything about his communication style, which took me a while figure out:

since reaktor community is a technical place a translation restriction forces a communication strategy that's direct and explicitly related to the task at hand as possible: "take the yellow sheet of paper and put it on the red book sitting on the table", any extra information contributing to something you or i may consider a more polite tone is just another opportunity for things to get confused

i actually helped him with something a while ago in a somewhat difficult to communicate task involving mounting disk images to install ancient VSTs. i found i had to kind of click into his frame of presenting information in a way such that it wouldn't get garbled on translation. we went back and forth over a few days trying to get it to work until it became clear there was a roadblock that had us both stumped. he was perfectly willing at this point to cut his losses, in a way i'd consider categorically unlikely for someone who actually had a 'pushy' personality

you may or may not find that to be relevant, i've never stood between paule and something having to do with ms-20s

A friendly message to a grumpy old man. Nothing to be alarmed about. Have a nice one. (: