i like sliders more than knobs

u0421793

This departs from how it works on the real synth (ie, infinitely variable on both coarse and find frequency sliders, just the min and max limits are different), so then it would seem there's the need or requirement to develop a more sophisticated on-screen control paradigm.

Paul16

Certainly in Gadget, you can 'flick' the control and it will start moving in more friendly increments (ie round 10s). The problem with the pitch sliders, though, is the range is still 400 (so 40 increments).

The other big problem is I find I start flicking it towards zero and all is going well until I'm about 3 flicks away - then boom - it doesn't register my flick and flies the slider way off again. So I have to start again. Bloody annoying. And not great sounding during a performance .

Maybe user error on my behalf but I find dialling in the bpm on Gadget to be an absolute nightmare.

Additionally, I'd just like to take this opportunity to congratulate the members of the forum on their mature approach to a thread with a title that was truly ripe for innuendo

Will

Loopy volume (etc) controls are sort of knoblike and brilliant. You can drag them within the little loop graphic but you can also drag your finger outside of the loop area. When you do, you get finer control.

AndyPlankton

@Lacm1993 said:

@wim said:

@Lacm1993 said:
It's simple (I'm not reading the whole thread) knobs make no sense on a touchscreen.

Thanks for settling that one! Wish you'd have jumped in earlier and saved us all that time discussing it.

Thread closed...

Your welcome.

Knobs in both the physical and virtual form are space saving versions of sliders. On a touchscreen with the absence of something else, knobs working in linear mode is the best compromise from a control perspective.

Richtowns

Auria's mixer in portrait mode has the longest sliders in the game. Just sayin'
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mannix

Interesting thread. The first generation of devs (on iPhone) did seem to understand that touch buttons and
sliders had to be big (one example of this is Sampletoy from 2010) so you could easily control your instrument. With the development of iOS and more (pro) devs jumping on the app train, you saw more and more style copies of VST and AU plugins with amongst others (small) knobs. A lot of this apps are hard to control if you have bigger fingers, even on iPads. But still ther are examples of good implementations of knobs and again bad implementions of sliders. What a want to see is larger buttons or knobs and I want to see parameters so you can exactly see the value you have. The worst implementation of sliders are the apps by Apesoft (ie iPulsaret) or Fieldscaper when you use them on a iPhone 5S, I just can't control. The sliders are just too small. btw Apesoft and Fieldscaper are really great apps but making them universal by just scaling them down, makes totally no sense and gives on smaller phones frustrating results. If you want to make a universal app, make something workable on smaller phones.

stemshade

holderness media has got it right for fx tactile control imo. not as pretty as ddmf but you don't even have to slide. just touch where you want it to be.

Brain

@asnor said:
I prefer sliders, too. Knobs on a touch screen don't make a whole lot of sense from a usability standpoint.

That's because you end up sliding your finger anyway.

Redo1

@vpich said:
holderness media has got it right for fx tactile control imo. not as pretty as ddmf but you don't even have to slide. just touch where you want it to be.

Yeah that tapping the slider position works great.
I wish echo pad would get a UI update.

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