>Tony, are you rolling your eyes at all this?
Heh heh, sort of.
Actually I think it's a pretty cool idea, but it will entail more delay
and more cost. I don't know if enough people think it would be worth
that. And you're right, you would need some sort of display to know
where the value is set.
Tony
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Juskiw [mailto:scott@...]
> Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 1:30 PM
> To: motm@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [motm] Re: freq shifter knob
>
>
> Interesting idea this. We'd need some kind of additional display to
> indicate the dialed in frequency shift. At least _I_ would need this
> in order to annotate a patch. Tony, are you rolling your eyes at all
> this?
>
> At 3:47 PM +0000 2003/01/25, paulhaneberg <phaneber@...> wrote:
> >At the risk of beating a long dead horse:
> >If the frequency shifter is to be in part digital, I assume it would
> >include a PIC. The potentiometer could be replaced by an
> encoder and
> >the PIC could be programmed to interpret the encoder as a coarse
> >control when turned quickly and a fine control when turned slowly.
> >There could even be several scalings all based on the
> angular velocity
> >of the knob. The one large knob could be both the coarse and fine
> >control. I have no idea of what this could do to the cost,
> but possibly
> >you wouldn't need an encoder and could do the same thing with a pot.
>
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