Doepfer Dark Time

[Andrew Tarpinian]

On Jan 12, 2012, at 11:44 AM, Tony Scharf <noisetheorem at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Jay Vaughan <jayv at synth.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Yeah, this was a common argument given around the redesign of the Virus synth .. I don't buy it, though, because I think the knobs are the first level of documentation for all new users.  Certainly, power users don't really care, but when you're learning for the very first time, such unintuitive flaws get in the way and often manifest themselves as problems later down the line ..
>> 
> 
> I can appreciate that position. In this particular case, I would say
> it would have been better to leave the markings off entirely simply
> because if you marked then 0 to 12, that only works when range is 1
> octave.  Aside from having each knob in a concentric ring, I don't
> know how you would possibly get all that paint on the panel and not
> cause confusion.

It would be cool it it was something like that new monome arc with the led's. Then the ratio of the knob turn/lights could be different depending on the voltage. Is that what your talking about?