[linux-audio-user] i'm a graphic designer - use me! ;-)

Jon Ellis ashura666 at mac.com
Wed Jan 22 23:16:01 EST 2003


Even knobs would be alright if they had keyboard bindings. Once you've 
clicked on a knob you could adjust up and down, finely with cursor 
keys, and coarsely with PgUp/PgDn.

Would that be so hard?

On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 01:14  AM, Speaker to Vegetables 
wrote:

> I just had to chime in with a metoo on this. Audio apps on both Windows
> and Linux have way too many simulated rotary knobs. I hate the damned
> things! At least in Cakewalk HS one can usually ignore the knob and
> just type in the right number. Give me either a straight-line slider or
> nothing (plus, either way, a text entry/display box).
>
> On Wednesday 22 January 2003 10:53 am, iriXx wrote:
>> actually i've worked with those sorts of apps, like Reason, in
>> windows *cough splutter*... and i find them really annoying to work
>> with... knobs dont actually translate very well into mouse usage!!!
>> you end up struggling to control the thing... although generally it
>> runs on the y axis up and down.... which is kinda counter-intuitive
>> to using a knob in 3 dimensions!
>
> -- 
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>
>
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