[sdiy] Control Interfaces (was Wakeman)

[Andy Wilson]

On 7 Jul 2003 at 11:50, Glen wrote:
<snip>
> Isn't everyone tired of push button interfaces using unlabeled 
hidden
> functions? Why don't we have controls that change their legend in 
response
> to the particular mode they are in at the moment? The legends 
could be done
> with individual LCD displays (would take a lot of LCD's), or the 
whole
> control panel could be a single touch screen. This would seem to 
be an
> economic hurdle, but surely this could be overcome eventually?
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Have you seen the Studer Vista 7 mixing console, using 'Vistonics'. 
Now that's a pretty cool user interface,  quite literally TFT with knobs 
on. And it seems to work well too.

http://www.studer.at/pages/news_main.html

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Andy Wilson
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