At 11:39 PM 8/30/2004, ben_englund wrote:
>Maybe do like was already stated earlier and just use LEDs around the
>dial to indicate position. Then don't put any position indicators on
>the dial itself. Then when you turn the unit on, you could have it
>start in the "home" position no matter how much the dial itself has
>moved while off.
Modern digital audio consoles do this - the Yamaha PM-1D uses 32 LEDs per
rotary encoder to indicate 64 discrete positions (all off, 1 on, 1+2 on, 2
on, etc). Its darned cool to punch up a different preset scene and watch
all the indicators snap to their new positions.
dwayne
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