My take on the sliders…
I definitely prefer sliders to dials especially for panning. I agree with Swindus “it makes more sense to pan to the left or right instead of panning to the top and bottom”. But I would hasten to add that it makes more sense to us but not necessarily for other Podium users.
I don’t know if Frits will include an option for users like thcilnnahoj but I can see why it might not be to everyone’s taste but personally I like the new pan sliders.
I do agree with thcilnnahoj on this matter though…”The pan value is very hard to read”. It is not terribly difficult but the text is… tiny …sorry. It is legible and I can work with it but I would prefer not to have to work with text that small.
Suggestions
1.Would it not be possible to increase the vertical size of the pan and gain sliders even a little bit please?
2.Also for the pan slider…increasing the width of the button to match the gain slider button size would help as you could add the letter “L” to the slider as soon as one moves it from the centre to the left and “R” can appear immediately after any move is made to the right. Of course the pan value will remain visible in the centre of the glass button. The letters “L” or “R” would appear either side of it, when there is *any* movement left or right.
Right now L or R appears only when the slider is 100% fully left or right. I think those letters should appear as soon as the slider moves either left or right not only at a fully 100% panned position. That will provide more feedback especially with such a tiny value to see.
3. The letter “C” could replace the pan values when the pan slider is fully central. This would immeadiately solve the problem I had (below) and new users will face when loading up Podium. If “C” is visible on the button when central, one can easily know what it does at a glance.
A problem
Something else to think about Frits…1.95 will cause a big splash because of all the changes but…the first thing I thought when I loaded up Beta 9 was “which slider is for Gain and which one is for Pan”? Not good. Moving my mouse over the dials gave me no info as well.
While all the changes since 1.94 are very welcome and definitely improve things I feel it is is necessary to caution against adding too many new features with no indicator as to what they do. No popups, updated guide, Wiki articles…
There is too much guess work in Podium 1.95 (as of now)…especially with new features IMO.
Releasing 1.95 and a tutorial or an updated guide (at the same time) would would be great. 🙂
You spoke of a 3rd arrangement mode…any news on that or have you decided to do away with it?
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