graphic tablet operation

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klangfreund
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graphic tablet operation

Post by klangfreund » Sun Jul 17, 2005 9:10 pm

I love to work with a tablet-pen instead of a mouse: I'm faster, it's more accurate and no muscle problems in my hand when working for hours.

But in Live it's very hard to adjust sliders and knobs with such a pen, especially when the Tablet is in absolute mode (the area of the tablet represents the screen. i.e. touching the tablet at the top right will result in a click on the top right of the screen. In this mode, an application is not able to place the curser to an other position (i.e. over the ok-button of a dialog window)). But even when the graphic tablet is in relative mode - like a regular mouse - the sliders and rotary knobs are very hard to set up because just a little motion of the pen is mapped the the whole range of a fader or knob.

Extreme example: In absolute mode, around 0.5mm are mapped the the whole range of the Interval rotary knob of the Beat Repeat plugin.


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funk313
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Post by funk313 » Sun Jul 17, 2005 9:18 pm

could you just do us all a favor..

stick yo thabnet-pfen up yo butt..

And post your "problem" somewhere else. This is the BETAAAArrgh test FOrum.

Ok!

thanx

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Post by amo » Sun Jul 17, 2005 9:24 pm

funk313 wrote:could you just do us all a favor..

stick yo thabnet-pfen up yo butt..

And post your "problem" somewhere else. This is the BETAAAArrgh test FOrum.

Ok!

thanx
Wouldn't be so rough myself :?, but yes, this would fit better in the general forum.

Cheers to both of you,
amo
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funk313
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Post by funk313 » Sun Jul 17, 2005 9:37 pm

yes sorry for :cry: being a rude boy..but still.. :twisted:

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Post by StompyJ » Sun Jul 17, 2005 9:42 pm

please move this to 'wishlist forum'
no longer needed. this is for you. you know who you are.

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Post by Eduard » Mon Jul 18, 2005 1:31 am

Moved to feature wishes.
eduard mueller
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Post by mcconaghy » Mon Jul 18, 2005 2:17 am

Klangfreund, all you need is practice. I've been using an Intuos 8x12 tablet with Live since version 2, and I have no problems whatsoever with it, the resolution is high, and I don't experience huge jumps.
Is your tablet a smaller size than 8x12?

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