I went to the Avid MC6 Avid event at the Hollywood Roosevelt tonight. I was hoping to play on the Color Panel but the unit out in the lobby wasn't working when I went to the table and someone told me that particular unit had been problematic and they suggested I try the unit that had been used in the main demo. I got a few minutes to poke around and to me the panel looks interesting but without enough knowledge of the button mapping I couldn't really get a feel for how responsive the track balls are in symphony hue offsets etc... The one thing I noticed with the knobs is the sensitivity of the rotation seems to be effected by the speed they are turned. A quick twist jumps a large amount while turning slowly the parameter changes are much more refined. I've seen this behavior on other equipment in the past and I'm curious if there is a preference to change this behavior to be more like a regular potentiometer like on an old sony TBC control
where the knob position is more absolute as opposed to what I guess would be called a rotary encoder. I'm not thinking about a knob that stops at the end of rotation like a volume control but one where the parameter change is constant relative to rotation angle and not modified by rotation speed. I'm trying to be open minded about the panel but I feel like I get a better feel with my kennsington expert mouse/trackball but that only adjusts one parameter at a time. Curious how those that have spent time with this panel feel about added efficiency over their legacy approach to color correction in symphony.
John Moore
Barking Trout Productions
Studio City, CA
bigfish@pacbell.net
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