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<div>Tom Wiltshire wrote:</div>
<div>> I did many experiments trying proportional control of a parameter using the velocity of the encoder. It was a disaster, in short. Mostly much too sensitive, or much too slow. In the end, I finished up with a system like you suggest, > where you can push the encoder for fine control.</div>
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<div>That reminded me of something else with built-in "switching" between coarse and fine control:<br/>
Those encoder knobs on many HAM radio transceivers to tune, with a dent near the outer radius, where you can rest your fingertip and use the thing as a crank with very quick rotations, or grab the whole thing for fine control.<br/>
Needs more space of course, for those things are bigger than the average knob on a synth module. And the encoder has more wear if the solution is "turn it more!", if it's a mechanical one. And I'd guess things finger tip cranking doesn't feel nice with some encoders hard detent.<br/>
Something like this:<br/>
https://www.adafruit.com/product/2055https://www.adafruit.com/product/2055<br/>
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