It's not clear if those two statements are meant to go together. If so then what other synths have options 1 and/or 3?The three most common options are:
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It's not uncommon for other Synthesisers to have these options on hardware controls, providing Quality of Life depending on how the User prefers the controls to work.-
Wouldn't that ALWAYS cause a 'jump' when the positions are different? A worst case might be a pedal that is left full ON but a new part being played has a much lower volume. As soon as you move the pedal that new part will now be at full volume.1) Inert - Immediate: The Control is "inactive" until moved, at which point the parameter immediately assumes the position of the Controller.
Doesn't that describe what the instrument is doing now?2) Catch and Latch: The controller can be moved (or more appropriately ... accidentally nudged) without having any affect, until it is intentionally moved past or through the current value of the Parameter (Catch), at which point it will actively control (Latch) the parameter whether moved up or down.
Seems to me that totally prevents the controller from controlling in one direction.3) Proportional Offset: It is assumed that the current position of the controller represents the current value of the parameter. Moving the Controller Upward of its current position, will take the Parameter Value from its current value to Max Value. Likewise, moving the Controller downward, will reduce the Parameter to its minimum value.
1. the parm value is 50
2. the controller position is the max value allowed (e.g. 127)
How would you ever be able to move the controller
How do you raise the parm value? You can't raise it UP - it is already at max. And if you lower it are you saying that the controller range is now forever changed to a MAX of 50 and a MIN of 0?
Even if that made sense for one parameter controllers aren't limited to one parameter. If fact, for the M models, they can now control 32 parameters - twice the limit of 16 for the Modx and previous Montage model.
Similar argument for lowering the parm value it the controller is at MIN.
I don't know that I want either of those major side effects. Do you know of any synths that use that solution?
Assuming that 'filter' use case is a valid one, and I have my doubts, controllers aren't restricted to controlling filters. And it suffers from both of the side effects mentioned earlier.This is a little less intuitive than the first two options, but does have purpose and reason.
If a controller, like a slider, has physical limits I'm not sure there are viable options other than the 'catch' used now.
Statistics: Posted by Douglas — Sat Feb 24, 2024 4:46 pm