does such a device exist?

peeddrroo · Post by **peeddrroo** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:08 pm

i was thinking that i'd really like to have a simple device with just 1 big knob that would be automatically assigned to whatever i click on in live or plugins.
does such a thing exist?
can i emulate it somehow?

Moody · Post by **Moody** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:28 pm

Nice idea!

peeddrroo · Post by **peeddrroo** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:37 pm

has anyone an idea of how easy that would be to make?
with automapping that shouldn't be too hard...

i'm sure they'd sell billions of these.
imagine:
right hand mouse click => select parameter
left hand big knob => change value

Timur · Post by **Timur** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 10:09 pm

Yes, would be useful! You can already use the keyboard cursor keys for that in Live, can't you? So maybe you can use something like Midiox to remap a midi-knob to keyboard-inputs? No idea, but the fact that this knob thing isn't easily possible right now makes one wonder if we're really living in the computer-age yet?

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 10:12 pm

http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/powermate/

- set it to arrow up/arrow down... no midi needed.

hoffman2k · Post by **hoffman2k** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 10:15 pm

Yup. Got one too. Though Andreas has these fancy 3d knobs which seem way cooler.

peeddrroo · Post by **peeddrroo** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 10:30 pm

cool guys, thanks.
so you just program it to do arrow up and down, and it works?
sounds really nice. and cheap.

genshi · Post by **genshi** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 10:33 pm

Mackie made one as well:

http://www.mackie.com/products/bigknob/

(though I think it's geared more to audio than MIDI)

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 10:34 pm

but that's an analogue volume controller... hope you knew that?

Michael Hatsis · Post by **Michael Hatsis** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 10:44 pm

Theres also the SpaceNavigator by 3Dconnexion. Thing is really cool, you have 4 different movements - Push, pull, twist, or tilt the cap. Also, if Yer Max Savy, Masayuki Akamatsu made a MAX external for it. -
aka.spacenavigator - http://www.iamas.ac.jp/~aka/max/#aka_spacenavigator

So techincally you can control 6 different params with one knob. Not bad!

rbmonosylabik · Post by **rbmonosylabik** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 10:46 pm

best use of a Big Knob ever

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 10:52 pm

mike@TrackTeam Audio wrote:Theres also the SpaceNavigator by 3Dconnexion. Thing is really cool, you have 4 different movements - Push, pull, twist, or tilt the cap. Also, if Yer Max Savy, Masayuki Akamatsu made a MAX external for it. -
aka.spacenavigator - http://www.iamas.ac.jp/~aka/max/#aka_spacenavigator

So techincally you can control 6 different params with one knob. Not bad!

I'm with ya on that one, Mike... I have two of them...

peeddrroo · Post by **peeddrroo** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 10:57 pm

i've searched the forum and apparently there's a few users having troubles getting their powermate to work with live.
there's been a few ppl mentionning Shuttle Xpress, that looks also interesting.
any feedback?

subSonik · Post by **subSonik** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 11:05 pm

that space nav looks cool

Kodama · Post by **Kodama** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 11:18 pm

Also check out the shuttle xpress.