What does the panel think about the new Roto-Control from Melbourne Instruments?

0:20get started with the rest of the show. Alexander, what's the first question? First question this morning was submitted through Show Hub. Mike Edwards in New York is asking morning everyone what does the panel think about the new roto control from melbourne instruments mr francis so this is first i've seen of it but it looks like a little set of knobs and buttons and some thankfully displays that will update uh this connects via usb and or midi

0:51and i assume midi over usb as well i'd love to feel the switches because they look like big chunky those kind of loud clacky keyboards that some people like thankfully the knobs are motorized which is why this is in the four hundred and fifty dollar range as opposed to those little nano control devices that are like in the $80 range because this actually has motorized knobs so that

1:18there's recall visual recall when you jump to a different product or jump to different faders because this is obviously not going to control all of your controls because there's only eight when you switch to a new bank the knobs will move to that position to display where your levels are which is really kind of the only way that you can deal with

1:39actual control surfaces is to invest and get ones that are motorized and jump to that position big flaw with this one where are the faders i don't want to mix levels on knobs faders are a very specific device and they have a specific precision in the normal section where we use them in that unity gain section kind of three quarters of the way up a fader there's a lot more precision

2:03in that realm than there is in the bottom of a fader and I don't see that happening in a as easily in a rotary knob and I don't want to use rotary knobs it's harder to visualize levels when rotary rotary knobs jump into place with just a little line on top of them. So really cool control. I think probably should have made it a little larger and used faders instead of rotary controls.

2:27Courtney, what's your thought? One unique thing that I've never seen on any other rotary control device is that the knobs change functionality as you change them for different, When you map them to different things, they can be either smooth or they can have detents, like click, click, click, click, click. And they must do that by having it, you know, when it reaches a certain value, click to the next one, click to the next one, click to the next one.

2:58Because it says here every knob does exactly how you want it with clicks. Clicks for detents for, you know, setting different settings and smooth for mixing. So that's... Mickey? Yeah, that's getting more and more popular with having those configurable encoders, which are actually not just encoders, but they're actually motors that allow you to change between like infinitely variable or having indents or clicks in them.

3:33them. I think they're marketing this more towards folks that use the this for controlling say synths or keyboards. And that's why it's more rotary encoders as opposed to linear faders. Interesting product. I personally well, I would like to play with one but I don't think I would invest in this this specifically because this is the first time I'm hearing of this company, Melbourne

4:06Instruments, and I don't know what their support network is like. I don't know what their reseller and their distribution network is like. So I don't want to invest in learning a specific controller just to find out 10 years down the line they're no longer around. I'm not going to invest the time into that. But interesting product. All right. Alexander, what's the next question?