MOTM

>
> I guess I would lean to the 4 alphanumeric LED displays.  The thing
> that sucks about LCD is the viewing angle problem - usually really bad
> from the sides and for above/below/straight on you need to adjust the
> contrast to match your "normal" viewing angle.  It seems like this
> could be problematic with a modular - particular if you have a lot of
> panel space you might not really have a "normal" viewing angle for the
> display.

LCD technology has advanced :) I'm using what's called a transflective polarizer. The viewing
angle is is like 160 degrees in both directions.

>
> The flip side is that, limited to 4 alphanumeric LED digits, the UI
> will be more cryptic.  (Less digits for description of what is
> selected, etc.)

This was a MAJOR issue.

>
> I really liked your idea of the decimal points indicating gate
> activity, etc.  This also would work great with LED displays - but
> would be far less effective on an LCD.  (LCDs also have the "slow
> update" problem - a slow blinking dot tends to fade instead of blink,
> and a fast blinking dot would just be a blur.)
>

I will ponder what to do about GATE LEDs. Right now, there are MIDI Activity and MIDI Clock LEDs.

Paul S.