Oh - well - great point. I've never made something with sliders. So
then the faders take up as much space horizonatally - or nearly so -
but they're more "graphic" per some earlier comments. One of the
advantages of faders on mixers is how you can manipulate them -
pushing or pulling groups of them togeher. Would this be applicable
to the Klee? I'm really just considering the merits of either
approach. My personal bent has been toward knobs... but I'm wondering
how I might approach a slider panel layout -
--- In ModularSynthPanels@yahoogroups.com, "plord" <plord@...> wrote:
>
> wjhall11 wrote:
> > Knobs take up less room vertically, and sliders less horizontally
- make
> > sense?
>
> Um, no? Unless you're going with bare slider shafts, good slide
pots with
> functional cap-knobs are going to take up just as much room. Same goes
> for the back of the panel, the Alpha slide pots I'm using are just
as wide
> as the ∗super sexy∗ alpha rotary pots I'm using for the glide knobs.
>
> I've had to adjust my 3U rack slider panel design a half dozen times to
> make room for slider caps. It's driven me slightly buggy.
>
> Paul
>