Re: [LAD] sliders/fans

How easy is that to use in practice though? With a mouse, and
particularly with a touch screen, it's not that easy to do a purely
vertical movement without introducing lots of horizontal "noise" that
will surely hamper your attempts at fine settings?!

Neil

On 7 December 2011 19:32, Paul Davis <paul@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 2:12 PM, David Robillard <d@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>
>> How about using the axis inline with the slider for coarse control, and
>> the other axis for fine control?  For example, a horizontal fader would
>> use horizontal drag as a "direct grab" as usual, but the vertical
>> distance would be used as a fine control.
>>
>> This saves a modifier, and is more discoverable for it (users are pretty
>> likely to figure this out by mistake), as well as accurately usable with
>> one hand.  Could be applied to touch screens, as well.
>
> this been around in several different audio apps for at least a
> decade. just a FYI :)
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