"Jeffrey D. McEachin" <jdm@...> writes: > >LED display + controller chip 5$ > > What's sad is, you can get a 16x2 character LCD for 6$ that is able to > display a LOT more information than three 7 segment LEDs. If only... OTOH, it's visible from a lot farther away ... :-) Actually that's not as facetious as it might seem -- I get the impression that a lot of the evolver's design is shared with the `adrenalinn' that he also worked on, and since that's (mainly) a guitarists' box, the `visible from a distance' thing is important. For a new model (say the polysynth I keep going on about :-), I'd actually like something like a 32x1 or 32x2 gas plasma display like ensoniq synths (or the Xpander!) used to use, which could be placed above the knobs and the knobs aligned so that the value of each knob in the current row could be displayed simulataneously (3 digit value + 1 separator space for each knob); if there was a 2nd row, wow! [I guess an LCD would work too, but somehow LED or gas-plasma seems much more in keeping with the evolver's character...] -Miles -- I'm beginning to think that life is just one long Yoko Ono album; no rhyme or reason, just a lot of incoherent shrieks and then it's over. --Ian Wolff
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Re: How's this? was: rackmount evolver?
2003-02-06 by Miles Bader