![]() ![]() ![]() And now that I've checked it out a little more closely, watching values change in MIDI OX when I move various controls, I see that most of the controls, including mod wheel and pitch bend wheel, skip values and do not move smoothly through the already coarse 128 possible values. Can it be relied upon? I suspect they've gone with the cheapest Chinese hardware they can get. ![]() It causes me to be concerned about the quality of the rest of the components in the device. After a bit of research, I've discovered complaints about this on many different Arturia devices. I mean that even though I am smoothly turning the knob in one direction at a constant rate, the values generated often jump BACKWARD, in the opposite direction that I am moving the knob, a little. And I don't just mean that intermediate values get skipped. They are obviously of very poor quality since values jump all over the place as you turn the knob. So basically, the encoders on this device don't seem terribly useful, and they are part of what I thought I paid for. This is the sort of behavior one expects, isn't it? This is how the encoders behave on my NI Komplete Kontrol S25. It would be nice to be able to turn the knob slowly and go through the whole range of values smoothly, with full resolution, without the values jittering around, and do all of this with something like one full turn of the knob, not three full turns. The "fast" acceleration isn't helpful for slow changes, since it only kicks in when turning the knob quickly. Any solution aside from remapping in software and losing precious resolution? I read elsewhere about people changing the encoders on Arturia devices, but I am sure this would void the warranty, which I don't want to do. Why did Arturia choose this sort of encoder? Any good reason? I am actually thinking of returning the controller because of this. With the Arturia encoders, this seems impossible short of using a bow or something to turn the encoder. If I set an encoder to change the cutoff frequency for a low pass filter, for example, while playing, I might want to make a slow and smooth sweep through a range of values. Is there a good reason for this that I am not thinking of? I also have a NI Komplete Kontrol S25, and its encoders go through the full range in less than a full turn, which seems to me much more useful. I am rather new to all this MIDI controller and synth stuff. The encoders are very, very slow! It takes nearly three full turns to move through the whole range of values. I just got my first Arturia product, a Keylab 61 MKII. ![]()
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