[LAU] turn your tablet into a real physical interface

[david]

On 11/02/2014 03:21 PM, Simon Wise wrote:
> On 03/11/14 11:45, Len Ovens wrote:
>> On Sun, 2 Nov 2014, david wrote:
>
>>> I like feeling a real knob or slider, not the flat slick surface of a
>>> picture
>>> of a knob or slider.
>>
>> I think there is no one here who wants "touch" for controlling audio.
>> We all
>> want something we can feel that we don't have to watch. Watching while
>> moving
>> takes more concerntration leaving less for listening, but listening is
>> more
>> important. Worse (I don't know about others) the concentration used
>> with a touch
>> pad to make sure my finger is in the right place is fully on the upper
>> level of
>> my consiousness as opposed to a knob or fader that becomes an
>> extension of low
>> level muscle control for the most part.
>
> it is the combination of real knobs and faders with the visual feed back
> of a touch screen for selecting and viewing things that works well ...
> it has been the basis of some very high end studio mixing systems for a
> while now. A biggish button displayed on a touchsceen requires less
> fiddling/distraction than using a mouse and cursor if you are mostly
> using your hands for the keyboard and real controls ... plus there are
> some types of control that can be done with multi-touch or pen quite
> nicely ... (certainly not knobs, faders and buttons)

Hmm, make the sliders/knobs sitting on the tablet/touchscreen 
transparent so the visuals beneath show through?

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