On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 21:33 +0100, Will Godfrey wrote: > On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 22:02:17 +0200 > Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Keep in mind that the 360° of rotary knobs only should be used for some > > tasks. IMO it would be wise to use less than 360°, to simulate the > > radius of potentiometers. But I don't know how it's done by digital > > music mixing consoles. > > Why? What's special about 270 (or so) degrees. It was only ever purely a > mechanical limitation. For some tasks it could be useful to use more than 360°. Btw. even some potentiometers provide more than 360°, there isn't a mechanical limitation. If you e.g. pan from left to right, you likely will use around 180° only. Such a pan likely is done from around 9 o'clock to around 3 o'clock and not from one end to the other. IOW if you want to keep a common audio engineering work flow, stay with what is common for audio gear, IOW around 270° for the full range from one to the other end, so for e.g. panning a good ergonomically handling from around 9 o'clock to around 3 o'clock is provided. My 2 Cents, Ralf _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
