[linux-audio-user] Re: Korg Keyboard running Linux

Have you ever wondered why the new OASYS, Nord Modular G2, etc. have digital rotary knobs with the LED lights on the base of the knob? The knobs have a problem: when one does not look at the knobs from top, the LEDs are hidden by the knob itself and thus the value may go unseen. It appears that Euphonix (http://www.euphonix.com) has a patent on the knob where the LEDs are on the top of the knob (instead of base). LEDs are always visible. Why I wanted to tell all this is that prior the patent, when we had an electronics club at our elementary school, we came up with this patented knob design -- and we thought and laughed that it already must have been patented multiple times. Wrong. I have made an alternative design by now. Juhana -- http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-graphics-dev for developers of open source graphics software