search

nullJaX / vcvrack-patchable-devices

VCV Rack plugin with Patchable Devices modules
GNU General Public License v3.0
1 stars 0 forks source link

Window Generators - Reverse direction of knobs for time parameters #1

Closed Kwurqx closed 9 months ago

Kwurqx commented 10 months ago

Hi,

I checked out your Patchable Devices modules in VCV Rack. Great stuff.

The direction of Windows Generators knobs are unintuitive to me. Cuurently: longer times to the right and shorter times to the left.

My GUI intuition tells me: shorter times to the left and longer times to the right.

nullJaX commented 9 months ago

Hi,

The module was heavily inspired by Serge Extended ADSR. I understand the confusion, however this starts to make sense once you start looping/cycling the module. Time parameters have an exponential response (as well as their control voltage inputs) and, in looping mode, the user can control the frequency (or the speed) of the cycle the same way as they would do for an oscillator/filter/slew limiter.

During the implementation, it made more sense to keep it this way (knobs and CV inputs acting just like V/Octave inputs in Oscillators) rather than introducing more confusion with different directions of the CV and knobs, etc. Even if I used different naming for these parameters (ie. 'Rate' or 'Frequency' instead of 'Time'), there would have been a problem with units (Volts / seconds or Hz are quite unusable if you use this module as the Envelope Generator).

Thanks for a feedback.