one last overhaul

hey, i know its not gonna happen, but i dream of one last fix for os1, where jj really treats the os as a final leap away from akai os, where he takes further the practice of enhancing the mpc......its a (mbe) simple request that the visual side of things are taken to their optimum, whereas akai wasted space with stupidly wide fonts and larger than necessary spaces for titles etc.

i with jj would squeeze every pixel for what its worth and waste nothing of the lcd.

eg a: the Fkeys are little rectangles with all sides inked in,theres 4 horizontal levels of pixels available that arent used to any great effect, they could just be real tab-like and fit with the h/ware Fkeys more closely to the bottom of the screen...

b: theres a useless drop shadow in the track mutes page where the unnecessary box around the grid is....if a few of these tings were trimmed out finally - we'd have more room for smaller fonts (about the size of the 5pxl 'mute' down in the left corner) , i imagine that with these smaller fonts we could then have longer than (a piddly) 9 letter titles space in each box,and fit in double-row tracknames. still very legible.

there's prolly many more instances of this kind of optimisation, but i think after jj's broke the wakai os up, this is the last thing to get squeezed out.....and i think they could go that lil bit further and make it finally very very powerfull, with only a few tweaks in the lcd representation.

Im not really looking for any new features, or to pretty stuff up. I just want a pristine OS with as little bugs as possible. JJ seems to still be on top of things since OS2 so I can't really complain I just hope the focus doesn't shift to the point that certain issues are overlooked because of the new OS.

i with jj would squeeze every pixel for what its worth and waste nothing of the lcd.

same here. there's actually a smaller font that jj uses in os1 and os2 sometimes, it's like the supersmall font you see in the columns in GPE and such. i kind of wish all the text was like that.

there's prolly many more instances of this kind of optimisation, but i think after jj's broke the wakai os up, this is the last thing to get squeezed out.....and i think they could go that lil bit further and make it finally very very powerfull, with only a few tweaks in the lcd representation.

highly agreed. every now and then i see frames, borders, etc. in a few exceptions (NPE when you hit MODE over the pgm pad in main screen of os2) it comes as lke a "window" over the existing main screen. that, i can see.

but i know there's gonna be complaints. hell there were complaints when the font first changed from playscool crayola that still exists on the 1000,2500 and 500 os's to the now smaller one. some folks tried to revert back. don't expect this without some sour sams