Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 03:20:49PM -0500, Ravi Ivan Sharma wrote:
> But on the Keyboard, I bet many will miss the first look feature, except
> that since there are rotaries instead of pots, and as such, there will be
> no big jumps when one touches a knob. The tradeoff leans towards more
> control even if it means having to tweak a knob slightly back to the value
> it was just before one touched it to see where it was at in the display.

Perhaps a "look" button could be added, which when pressed, makes any
knob movement steal the focus (and thus display) without changing any
value.  [I'd think this would require much less software change than
other possible solutions (like the Ion-style "section-edit" buttons,
which assume that the display displays most of the parameters for each
group of knobs simultaneously).]

Also, maybe the traditional evolver "first click is look only" behavior
could be made a globally settable parameter, so that people could select
whichever behavior suits their working style best at the moment.

I personally really like the first-click behavior on the evolver...  it
helps work around one the most annoying problems with rotary encoders
(though only the NL3 method truly solves it).

-Miles
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