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Suggestion for LA developers

J.LuszczekJ.Luszczek Posts: 159
in London Architect with Soundweb London
I would like to see a new type of graphic control- wheel encoder or thumb wheel. It would work like the wheel on a mouse- one travel length would change the value by user determined increment.
This would make it easy to lay out multiple gain or other continuous controls on a small touch screen without sacrificing precision of adjustment. Right now if the graphical fader is not long enough it's very easy to turn volume up or down by too much. Up/Down pair is OK, but a wheel could have a better precision and would be more intuitive to operate.

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  • Dan LynchDan Lynch Posts: 472
    It would be different visually, but functionally that sounds pretty much identical to a rotary. You click on it and drag up or down to adjust. Change the Sensitivity under properties to change how far you have to move the mouse to get from full off to full on.

    Or are you wanting detents? Like a forced granularity to the control?

    Dan
  • J.LuszczekJ.Luszczek Posts: 159
    Yes, rotary can be made to behave like what I want, but it's a rotary graphic- very counter intuitive.
    Also, rotary responds to dragging way outside the graphic as long as you start on the graphic, a thumb wheel would only move while the pointer is over it, with user defined speed- like 3 or 6 dB per swipe. You could set it so it's not possible to turn the volume drastically up or down- it would take multiple moves to turn it up by 20 dB.

    Again, this is for limited graphic real estate and touch screen interfaces.
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