Re: Knob styles (was: AU host properties)
Re: Knob styles (was: AU host properties)
- Subject: Re: Knob styles (was: AU host properties)
- From: Chris Reed <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 16:03:52 -0500
On Thursday, May 22, 2003, at 15:20 US/Central, James Chandler Jr wrote:
It sounds like you're changing the value to some other value and then
back to where you really want it to be. This is exactly the very
annoying experience I've had sometimes when recording automation on
knobs that use circular control... some unwanted intermediate values
are recorded because I had to move the mouse around some to get the
value where I wanted it. With a linear control, you generally know
the value won't change on the first click, only when you start >> moving.
Hi Chris
Good points re automation recording. For use as in automation
recording, where "accidental transient" settings are bad, you are
right that a "circular control" knob has some warts (GRIN).
But in many uses, "changing the value to some other value and then
back to where you really want it to be" is exactly what typically
takes place, when the user is "hunting" for the best setting by
listening or watching the screen for some "optimum"? In that regard,
the "hunting" process is much the same regardless of whether the
control is a knob, slider, whatever?
That's true. I guess it really is just while recording automation or
during any kind of live performance that it matters if the value jumps
around.
Although, if I'm "hunting" for a good parameter setting, I think I tend
to do so more by sweeping the control from one end to the other instead
of jumping between where I think it might sound good. That makes it
easy to compare the changes at different values. Jumping from one value
to another puts a big gap that sometimes makes it hard to mentally
determine what the values in-between sound like. (I'm not sure I
described that so well...)
Anyway, we're getting well into stuff that is very dependant on the
individual user. And everyone works a little different, so there's
probably not any way to keep us all happy...
cheers
-chris
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