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Literally every DAW has knobs everywhere: it would be impossible to use sliders everywhere in a DAW's UI, there simply isn't enough room.
by oncallthrow 1y ago
Literally every DAW has knobs everywhere: it would be impossible to use sliders everywhere in a DAW's UI, there simply isn't enough room.
- HeWhoLurksLate 1y agowas going to say, heaven forbid we use a little skeumorphism
- o11c 1y ago"Make [a slider] bigger while the mouse button is held down, and warp the mouse so that when you let go you pick up where you left off" has been a solved problem for decades. And with traditional toolkits (i.e. not HTML) it will even be fast.
- llbbdd 1y agoThis would be a few lines of CSS and it would be very fast
- baxuz 1y agoIt's not all about the interaction, but also the visual representation which can be much finer and granular in small spaces with a knob. I can make a 16x16px knob where you can see almost the entire 320° of the range. It's also easier to see fractions, such as 1/2, 1/3 or 1/4. Sliders, especially in 16px possess none of those.
- duped 1y agoI was able to debug and fix someone's MainStage patch last night over SMS when they sent me pictures of their screen, where all the knobs were visible. Being able to see the full state of the thing is important. Hiding it behind interactions is just as bad as hiding it behind menus. Sidenote, you have to do this on native because pointer lock/warp is not universally supported in web browsers.
- oncallthrow 1y agoAs someone who regularly uses DAWs, this sounds like terrible UX