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bring back old school mechanical knobs
by nathias 4y ago
bring back old school mechanical knobs
- a4isms 4y agoSays EVERYONE who drives a late-model car that sticks everything behind the sliding fingers under glass UX, from climate controls to the volume of the stereo. This is a known problem, and one that will get people killed, because it demands that drivers focus on the infotainment screen and not the road to do a mundane task that their tactile fingers could easily perform on their own with mechanical controls.
- bmitc 4y agoIt's really unbelievable how effective knobs, switches, buttons, dials, and dedicated screens or displays are.
- nfoz 4y agoUsing synthesizer hardware is a joy of an experience.
- tenebrisalietum 4y agoIt's interesting tha synthesizers went through this already. In the 70's and early 80's--analog synthesizers--everything was knobs, sliders, and real buttons. Then everything was stuffed behind a minimum of buttons and maybe 1 or 2 knobs/sliders if you wer lucky, and a plethora of options and menus buried behind often a thin 16x2 LCD display. That was the early to mid 90's--analog sounds in electronic music started making a comeback, and by the latter half of the 90's and beyond everything started to have knobs and sliders again, even if the internals were no longer analog. I do wonder if not for that trend driven by the TB-303 and what not, would that even have happened to synthesizers. Maybe the same blacklash and pendulum swing will happen with everything else, but it seems like there's more pressure than ever to make users fit the product and save costs that way, rather than make the product for users and accept the price increases.
- TremendousJudge 4y agoThe most praised multi purpose keyboard maker out there is Nord, and the whole point of their stuff it's that the interface is physical knobs and buttons