matrixctrlr - dial mode colour change?

Pete's icon

is there any other cell images for 'dial mode' ?

no biggie, but the green/blue/white restriction is pretty ugly.

daddymax's icon

There is a tutorial either on the forum, or somewhere in the help file for the matriccontrol object (in the latter tabs/ pages i believe?). It doesnt look like a fun process though - you need to draw a series of dials representing each degree of the knob as it moves around the values. Would be great if it was more like the normal dials that you had control over.

metamax's icon

I use a program like Illustrator or Inkscape to create a dial shape and then rotate/copy/paste the dial for each position. Even with basic graphics skills, it's not difficult. You just need to be exact with pixel offsets and correctly set the inspector properties in [matrixctrl].

For example, if you want a 32-step dial that is 100px square, you need to create a 3200x100px image.png that has the same 100x100px dial rotated in all 32 positions, side-by-side, from left to right. In this case, you would set the [matrixctrl] inspector to:
dialmode = 1
cellpict = (image.png)
clickedimage = 1
inactiveimage = 0
range = 32

If you have the wrong number of pixels in your image or the properties are incorrectly set, it won't work right.

Pete's icon

would you mind sharing your dials?

"Would be great if it was more like the normal dials that you had control over." - yes please devs

metamax's icon

I wouldn't characterize these as normal dials (or dials at all for that matter) - but they might give you an idea of how to make your own set of dials. There were some more conventional ones posted to the forum a while back. You'll have to search for them.

dial_examples.zip
zip
Pete's icon

great! thanks. i like necker. transquare could look nicely intuitive for something like room size in reverb.

i'll search forums too.

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