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There is absolutely no way you successfully adjust two knobs at the same time on a multitouch display, let alone while doing live music. They are barely usable

There is absolutely no way you successfully adjust two knobs at the same time on a multitouch display, let alone while doing live music. They are barely usable one by one. There is a reason people serious about doing music keep using physical knobs to change values in their software. I’m entirely convinced the sole reason DAWs use virtual knobs despite them being such a poor UX element is because people will map them to MIDI knobs anyway and that keeps the software and physical world looking the same.

squeaky-clean 1y ago
> There is absolutely no way you successfully adjust two knobs at the same time on a multitouch display, let alone while doing live music I do it all the time on an iPad. It handles up to 5 simultaneous controls very well.
- fyolnish 1y ago
  Same here
- quesera 1y ago
  There's a demo app for the original iPad multitouch display, which can distinguish eleven simultaneous inputs. Prompting the obvious question: Why eleven?
  - eszed 1y ago
    You don't ever use your nose as an additional input device? I thought everyone did that.
MattPalmer1086 1y ago
Kind of a self fulfilling prophecy then. I had to figure out how to map the knobs to MIDI hardware because it was so hard to adjust them on screen! At that point I guess the physical resemblance is a virtue.