MOTM

>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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