Re: Yet another interface idea
Re: Yet another interface idea
- Subject: Re: Yet another interface idea
- From: Ryan Stevens <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 17:07:07 -0700
On Thursday, October 3, 2002, at 04:14 PM, Michael Ashton wrote:
(Note: I've tried to send this a couple of times already, but kept
getting bounced, because I was subscribed through my IEEE forwarding
address. I've resubscribed on my work address, hopefully this will
work better)
Great thread on knobs vs. sliders vs. etc. etc. Here's an idea which
you guys might find interesting. I've never really tried it but one
day I would like to. (I doubt I'm the first one to have thought of it,
by the way.)
Start with a screen full of graphic controls - maybe little knobs,
sliders, number boxes, graphs, whatever. Each represents a parameter.
Then, assign a keyboard key to each one, or, if necessary, a chord.
The interface is used as follows. Say you want to adjust track 2
volume, and that's assigned to the key 'x'. Hold down 'x', then move
the mouse up and down to adjust. Releasing the key returns things to
normal. Maybe EQ mid is assigned to key 'w': to adjust it, hold down
'w', move the mouse up and down, release 'w'.
I believe that this interface would be a bit tricky to get used to at
first, but extremely fast to use once you got in to it. It falls into
the "hard to learn, easy to use" category, and I think that's an
entirely appropriate thing for audio tools. Personally, I'm quite
happy to spend a little time learning a good interface if it'll
accelerate my work in the long run.
I'm sure you can think of improvements to or variations on this, or
maybe you can point out fatal flaws, or whatever .. doesn't bother me,
it's just an idea :)
I would've thought to start with the F1-F15 keys. Given some
customization though, I think that would be a cool system.
As an alt. to moving the mouse up/down you could have a pref. that
allows you to use the scroll-wheel to do the same thing (think of that
as the knob/slider while the key is down). I think that would be easier
for me to use, anyway. ;-)
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