Interface Design for Native Instruments. The Orchestral Brass is the first in a Series of recorded Instruments for the Native Kontakt Platform in collaboration with soundiron and Frank Elting for Product Design. Its a 32-piece brass section and top soloists recorded in the prized acoustic space of St Paul’s Church, San Francisco. Presented here is an excerpt of the UI development from Wireframe to the final Product. 

Keywords: Elegant, Minimalistic, Professional, High Quality. 

The first round of designs are broad to find a direction together with all stakeholders.

The challenges had been to find a good balance between a modern Interface somewhere between skeuomorphic and flat. Besides this first Instrument, the Design should be scalable for further Instruments (Strings, Woodwind and Percussion) as well as a function-reduced "light" version. The design is split in a welcoming, easy view (perform page) and further edit pages for professional composer. 

After deciding on a direction I established a grid and proportion inspired by music and sacred geometry, since the instrument had been recorded in a church. The grid is based on the minor third ratio, main knob size and icon size build from the golden ratio, the background image hand crafted in photoshop inspired by the fibonacci number.

Exploring one direction with blender and photoshop for the panel design, icon, logo and ui elements.

The final Design scaled up 2x, original Instrument size below. 

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