Can anyone shed any additional light on this... ???
the knobs on MicroKontrol really endless?
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- KVRAF
- 1974 posts since 21 Jun, 2002 from Earth
I bought a microKontrol a few weeks ago. I was really jazzed on the controller. I basically love everything about it, except... I don't see anyway to make use of the endless encorders such that they work like an endless is s'posed to work. I hooked it up to Midi-OX just to check out what the encoders where transmitting and sure enough everything is steped. It doesn't do anything where it will continuously send the same control message everytime you click it. At some point it stops even tho you can keep turning the knob.
Can anyone shed any additional light on this... ???
Can anyone shed any additional light on this... ???
ModuLR / Radio
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- KVRer
- 4 posts since 22 Jul, 2004
The Endless encoders are bit Better to Control and Increase the life / durability of the control knob a lot. I think its more of a Product Quality Decision compared to a Feature wise. Microkontrol is anything but a cheap toy midi controller that one can find these days at similar prices.and thanks to korg, they have designed this controlller to take/considering some real abuse scenarios and still function perfectly.
In general and Standard Midi Format, Midi Controllers have have an effective range of 0-127 (128 integer level steps). so once you reach a value of 127, it wont transmit out of standard, becaude if it were to do that incrementation without limits, any H/W or S/W synths/modules that are not bound to the limits can behave unexpectedly or even crash.
a Feature that i miss here is step interval, that is by what amount the movement of encoder is increased or decreased. korg has that hardwired to 1.
but otherwise once you get used to it, its a gem of a controller for all its meant to do.
In general and Standard Midi Format, Midi Controllers have have an effective range of 0-127 (128 integer level steps). so once you reach a value of 127, it wont transmit out of standard, becaude if it were to do that incrementation without limits, any H/W or S/W synths/modules that are not bound to the limits can behave unexpectedly or even crash.
a Feature that i miss here is step interval, that is by what amount the movement of encoder is increased or decreased. korg has that hardwired to 1.
but otherwise once you get used to it, its a gem of a controller for all its meant to do.
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- Skunk Mod
- 21249 posts since 10 Jun, 2004 from Pony Pasture
From my POV, the important thing about "endless" controllers [edit: besides the increased service life!] is that when you use them to control a soft synth, DAW mixer slider, etc., their logical position can become that of the software patch.
In other words, when you turn a knob you've assigned to Filter Cutoff, you don't want the on-screen knob suddenly to jump to wherever the physical knob's pointer was. (My M-Audio FW410 has one endless knob, and it has no pointer at all, which makes sense.)
My little Evolution MK-225C keyboard has eight actual potentiometers. When I assign one to control some knob on a soft synth, then twiddle it, the tweaking doesn't begin at whatever setting the virtual knob was at in the synth patch, it begins wherever the hardware pot was. (Annoying, but it was very inexpensive and I knew that was how it worked before buying.)
Meffy
In other words, when you turn a knob you've assigned to Filter Cutoff, you don't want the on-screen knob suddenly to jump to wherever the physical knob's pointer was. (My M-Audio FW410 has one endless knob, and it has no pointer at all, which makes sense.)
My little Evolution MK-225C keyboard has eight actual potentiometers. When I assign one to control some knob on a soft synth, then twiddle it, the tweaking doesn't begin at whatever setting the virtual knob was at in the synth patch, it begins wherever the hardware pot was. (Annoying, but it was very inexpensive and I knew that was how it worked before buying.)
Meffy