hi guys! how can I install a new skin on my Microtonic without Microtonic Skins dmg file ??? Because downloading is restricted and I don't know where to take it/// help plz!

Philter - thanks for sharing these. I tried Blues Brothers and ESX1. Both are really nice though I am partial to Blues Brothers right now. Nice combination of colours and lightness/Darkness. Very nice work. Thank you and much appreciated.

Nice work philter. Thanks for sharing, I like the scatched up bluesbrother the best.

Great skins, guys! I am using darkone, but would love to have a bright one that is really smooth looking. The bright ones so far didnt impress me so much.

I've started work on a new skin. Aiming for some soft pushbuttons and Oberheim-Sem-ish metal backplate. Still a log way to go, might end up somewhere else..

This looks fantastic!

indeed, very cool skin!

- Christian F. wrote:
This looks fantastic!

- Karschnackelwackel wrote:
indeed, very cool skin!

Thank you guys, but I've come to a dead end with this skin.

Too bad, it looks sweet!

Fredrik- I have used several skins (including one of Larserik's excellent (Darkone) skins. In the end though I keep coming back to the factory default skin, which offers a great balance of clarity and function. Really a great skin. The one thing I would request (and I might be the only one) is for an easy way for a dummy like myself to change colours on the factory skin. What I would consider perfect would be numeric entries for text, foreground and background (I'll show my age and reference the method that was used in Daiichi Synth 1 for those old enough to remember that). I understand that there is a huge appeal to creating and having photorealistic skins and would not want to discourage that capability. I just would like the option to "tweak" some colours in an easy way when the mood strikes. When you guys have nothing else to do.....😉😁

tonicA mk2 with more color, upgraded panel lines and dark faders.

That's really nice Larserik! Excellent job as always!

thanks, if you want to try it out it's available here:
https://l4rs3rik.github.io/microtonic/

Thanks I will definitely do so! Awesome Larserik!

ha, nice one. I see you worked your way around the one-knob-animation problem. 😊

- AAV wrote:
Fredrik- I have used several skins (including one of Larserik's excellent (Darkone) skins. In the end though I keep coming back to the factory default skin, which offers a great balance of clarity and function.

Thanks AAV. There's been a lot of opinions about the default skin over the years. I've kept tweaking it and improving it but trying to stay with the same layout and estetics. Some love it, some hate it. Which is why the alternative skins are a great addition.

- AAV wrote:
I just would like the option to "tweak" some colours in an easy way when the mood strikes. When you guys have nothing else to do.....

A color theme function inside the plug-in would be cool, but as you mentioned, it would need to use more vector and less photorealism. It's possible to tweak and colorize the original images and make additional skins. I suppose one of the easiest ways is to do hue/saturation with colorize in Photoshop and macro it to run the same adjustment on all png files.

- Fredrik Lidström wrote:
ha, nice one. I see you worked your way around the one-knob-animation problem. 😊

Yes.. I had this heap of renders from yesteryear laying around so this was fun to try out.

Hey Larserik! I loaded up your TonicA mk2 skin. It's really a thing of beauty, like a whole new plugin. I find the balance between the metallic "instrument" itself and the colour elements (knobs, led's) to be just right. Really great work! Thanks for sharing!

- AAV wrote:
Hey Larserik! I loaded up your TonicA mk2 skin. It's really a thing of beauty, like a whole new plugin. I find the balance between the metallic "instrument" itself and the colour elements (knobs, led's) to be just right. Really great work! Thanks for sharing!

Good to hear that you like it, I'm quite happy with it myself. Brings a more accented look and "feel" to the UI compared to the first version imho.

small preview of my blues brothers skin v2, what do you guys think so far?

It looks great! 😊

- c0nsilience wrote:
It looks great! 😊

thx mate!
critism, suggestions or other ideas are always welcome! i know it´s hard to really see the skin in action with only a screenshot, therefor i will upload this unfinished version later and see what you think of the skin in "action", so that the finished version can follow asap.

BTW: i am working on a complete "create-your-own-microtonic-skin" solution that contains a pack of Knobman files that are tailored to create new custom microtonic skins or edit/modify/change existing ones as easy as possible. this means EVERY microtonic GUI element (or it´s related image file in the microtonic skins folder) has it´s own knobman file, preconfigured in the correct size ,with the correct number of steps and some preset layers and also a pre-loaded image strip with the specific GUI Element from the default legacy skin.
importing knobs or switches, like e.g. from the knobman gallery (https://www.g200kg.com/en/webknobman/gallery.php) or from your favourite VST plugins skin folder is pretty easy, even GIF animations or animation sprites can be used.
you can create value readout displays or labels in ANY installed font, add shadows and lighting
to your GUI element, change the size, the position or other values like hue, transparency or contrast. you can also define multiple custom value curves to create non-linear changes of (almost) every graphic parameter. i will also include a small tutorial with some pretty nice tips,tricks and examples when it comes to knobman. this isn´t something for the skin pros here
(and we all know that we have some damn good graphic experts and skin creators here in the forum), it´s more targeted to microtonic users that want to create their own skin without investing too much time or going down the knowledge rabbit hole. what do you guys think of this idea?

so, enough said now, excuse my weird post, i think it is time to take some sleep ;)
greetings from germany

Hi Philter. That all sounds great. I look forward to trying out the skin. It looks great. Any utilities/tools that can facilitate making/adapting skins easily is a great idea in my book. Sometimes it's more about colour and functionality, and can change with my mood. Though I agree some of the skins produced are true works of art, they are beyond my skill to do.