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It's a fixed size slider which uses the rotation of the indicator to tell you its position, instead of the position of a thumb in horizontal or vertical positio
by duped 1y ago
It's a fixed size slider which uses the rotation of the indicator to tell you its position, instead of the position of a thumb in horizontal or vertical position.
If you replaced it with text or a bar that filled the area it would be the same.
It's better than a linear sliders because it takes up less space. It's better than a bar slider because you have more range to display (the length of the arc of the indicator is longer than the horizontal and vertical dimensions). This in turn makes it better for putting into tighter spaces.
- brudgers 1y agoYour rationals don’t mention users and if you are short on space, that’s poor design — just as a 12” (300mm) bedroom door would be poor design in a dwelling.
- duped 1y agoBy way of survivorship, every popular DAW and plugin responsible for music made over the last 30 years has made extensive use of knobs. If it's poor design that's news to the industry. Like if knobs suck, then every audio UI has always sucked.