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[motm] Re: freq shifter knob

2003-01-25 by Scott Juskiw

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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