Quick win : Image backgrounds for Patcher

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interstar
Fri Jul 30, 2021 2:17 pm

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Quick win : Image backgrounds for Patcher

I'm starting to get into Patcher.

And realizing just how powerful it is to make your own customized "instruments" or super-fx units.

I also watch a lot of videos on YouTube of people building their own modules for modular synths, or circuit bending old toys / cheap keyboards and putting them into new cases. Which is a lot of fun. And I realize that having your own custom look is part of the art / pleasure of doing that. Modular people even make or buy their own decorative blank panels for the gaps where they don't have a module. To give their setup some character and personalization. (See https://www.etsy.com/market/eurorack_blank or https://llllllll.co/t/aesthetically-pleasing-blank-panels-make-suggestions/35304/9 for some examples)

It seems to me that if we could just have an extra "control" for the Patcher surface that was just "load a background PNG" it would allow us to customize the look of the patch we built and make it feel far more "personalized" and "ours" etc. It might even encourage a lot more Patcher use, and sharing of patches when they'd be "check out this cool plugin I made". It will certainly make for nice YouTube videos of people's patches.

At the moment, the presets show that Patches can look cool-ish, but are still very much in a house-style. Whereas if I'm free to make my patch look any way I like, it will give a different, more personalized feel to my setup.

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