Awesome Info Panel with Actual Information – Spectral Eye Review

This is a really neat way to interact with sound and music. It took a little bit, and a look at the info pane, to “get it,” but now that I do, this is proving to be a fantastic tool with sound design. Especially when aiming for complex synth sounds intending to suggest, but not state, different timbres to hint at, say a trumpet, but not to BE a trumpet. And in fact can help super nerds actually veer away from specific instrument “sounds,” by allowing them/us to see which harmonics to avoid. To say nothing about how it can help tune a drum set or drum machine. Truly a stellar bit of kit for anyone into sound for the sake of sound. This means musicians, physicists, sound designers, and anyone who wants to understand what makes THAT wobble, that drives them/us good-mad, better than the other wobble that just annoys them/us or makes us bad-mad. I’d love to see a graphics update, but for free I’m not even remotely complaining. I also ask that you make a way that people who DO want to throw resources at you be given at least some way to do so. Not necessarily with a purchase. It probably wouldn’t be employed a lot, so it would be imprudent to create a specific commercial account, but a simple means of sending a couple bucks here and there would help you see that people DO appreciate developers, and that we want you to keep developing. Some of us also get how evil certain... let’s call them “business arrangements,” can be. How many times can a dollar be taxed before the one being taxed has to pay more than the dollar earned? [rhetorical] Developers: thanks for the stellar tool, and for making it free, AND free of ads! I’ve actually been just quitting anything that ads AT me anymore, and the ads that open something?!? Bad-mad for sure! I’ve also avoided “in app purchase,” apps for a long, long time. At least since the first few burned me. I find both approaches to be dishonest. DRM is another nightmare too vast a topic to get into. The ultra short version is that spending resources (time, money, creativity, at least) on inconveniencing the people who actually support the product and/or developer takes resources from making an app or product, or service, or support, or anything that can take something from good to OMG TAKE MY MONEY. I want apps that inspire OMG TMM, and these days products have to overcome product abandonment burns too. Sorry this is so long, I don’t get out much.
Review by MisterFox on Spectral Eye.