On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 22:25, Dan Harper wrote: > I for one dislike the knob design, you just cannot make fine adjustments > easily. Someone said that you can take the mouse out to a greater > radius from the knob, but that is just plain silly. While you move the > mouse out from the knob, you're bound to make small adjustments to the > value of the knob, unless you're a super-human, ultra-precision mouser! > This means that you're original value of the knob has been lost, and > you'd have to live with that, or move it to it's original position > first, and then make your slight adjustment. > > Also, it's just not natural for me to move my mouse in a circle, the > natural movement of my hand is not a circle, try to draw a perfect > circle in the Gimp sometime by mouse! This means, that at different > parts of the knob tweaking, you'd be changing value by an unpredictable > amount depending on how good your circle is. This means also that > left-handed mousers are going to change values at the opposite > sensitivity level at different parts of the motion. > > There is no easy solution as far as I can see, but what about a few > physical knobs, cheaply built, that send some kind of data via USB or > something that can change values. That's the best way I reckon, except > for the cost factor. > > I'll keep thinking about a purely software solution though. > > Dan
Well, the hardware is always an option of course (a fader/knob box is top on MY list-of-things-I-can't-afford anyway) but the UI still has to be as good as possible. Can't map a MIDI controller to every single knob you need to tweak! -DR-
