[linux-audio-dev] Knobs, the reply

[Dave Robillard]

On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 19:10, Tim Hockin wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 11:56:30PM +0100, Steve Harris wrote:
> > > I was speaking of knobs.  A horizontal slider is obviously visually
> > > different from a vertical one.  A horizontally-linear knob is not
> > > obviously different from a vertically-linear knob :)
> > 
> > I dont think theres any reason to support up-down and not left-right at
> > the same time.
> 
> Having it work in two dimensions is ok, but I don't know that it's
> actually as obvious as up/down.  In fact, 1 dimension makes it easier to
> get small incrments by moving diagonally.
> 
> Your hand is not good at very small movements, so you can make a
> moderately sized movement diagonally, which has a small vertical
> component.  This lets you get very small vertical tweaks.

I think having both axis tweak a knob is a bad thing too.  It would be
really hard to figure out how the heck the thing works.

People would think it's radial, but it's acting funny.. or just not be
able to figure it out at all.

-DR-