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01-16-2020, 08:00 AM
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Human being with feelings
Join Date: May 2015
Location: Warrington, UK
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My first Knob Stack adventure using Affinity Designer
I said I wasn't going to bother with knob stacks but my curiosity got the better of me.
I wanted to utilise Affinity Designer so that I could design the knob using vectors. I find it easier to use vectors, especially at such a small pixel level.
Before I could do anything, though, I had to do some Affinity research first.
Because my stack has a total of 49 knobs I didn't want to have to come up with a design first, and then copy and rotate each knob to suit.
Affinity allows you to create a "symbol" which can then be copied any number of times around a document. Then, as long as you have "sync" turned on, you can make edits to any of the symbol instances and that change is reflected across the board.
It took a while, and I have since watched a knobman tutorial so I'm wondering if I should have used that instead. Oh well, at least I learned a little bit more about Affinity.
Here is my initial simple knob:-
And then I added 12 indentations around the outside, which is almost lost at this size:-
Quite a few "firsts" here... First time I have tried LICEcap
cheers
andy
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01-16-2020, 08:05 AM
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Human being with feelings
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Croatia
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BTW there's a tool for making knob stacks called JKnobMan... requires Java but it is pretty simple and gets the job done...
https://www.g200kg.com/jp/software/knobman.html
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01-16-2020, 08:12 AM
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Human being with feelings
Join Date: May 2015
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Quote:
Originally Posted by EvilDragon
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Hi ED,
Yes, I did mention knobman in my original post. I will definitely have a look at that.
Although I had heard of knobman, I thought it was something that allowed you to import a PNG or similar but it does appear to work with vectors inside the software.
cheers, and thanks,
andy
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01-16-2020, 09:09 AM
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Human being with feelings
Join Date: May 2014
Location: Norway
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I've got something for you, synkrotron!
If you download AutoHotKey, you can automate this process fairly easily - with some scripting. It's a nifty program that can automate key-presses, mouse-inputs and a lot more.
Demonstration video
Download my script here.
Make sure to set the origin point to the center of the knob, by enabling the transform origin:
I use version 1.1.27.03 of AHK, so I'm not sure whether the latest version is compatible or not.
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01-16-2020, 11:38 AM
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Human being with feelings
Join Date: May 2015
Location: Warrington, UK
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Thank you Mordi, I will have a look at that
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01-20-2020, 05:44 PM
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Human being with feelings
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Right Hear
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knobman is the way to go...
takes some learning but worth it...
once you 'get it' you can do endless variations pretty fast...
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01-20-2020, 08:38 PM
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Human being with feelings
Join Date: Oct 2011
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Knobman comes with some pre-made projects, open them up and see what parameters are using. There are only few settings to change: steps in preferences (must be odd number), check oversampling 4x to get smooth knobs, then in the right window modify some angle (from, to), and mask from -140 to 140, and if you make pan knobs there is a stop at zero i think. Play with angles zoom, colors, alpha, stack up layers, and thats all about it. It takes few minutes to understand what does what then its a breeze.
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01-20-2020, 10:36 PM
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Human being with feelings
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Canada
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I knew you couldn't resist....
Knobman:-)
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01-22-2020, 02:57 AM
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This keeps popping up in my YT feed. Gets me every time..
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REAPING HAVOC SINCE 2008
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01-22-2020, 03:01 AM
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Human being with feelings
Join Date: May 2015
Location: Warrington, UK
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Quote:
Originally Posted by uksnowy
This keeps popping up in my YT feed. Gets me every time..
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Yes, one had to LOL momentarily
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01-22-2020, 03:02 AM
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Human being with feelings
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Location: Warrington, UK
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hopi
knobman is the way to go...
takes some learning but worth it...
once you 'get it' you can do endless variations pretty fast...
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I will definitely try it one day, I am sure.
At the moment I am done faffing with my theme and I'm now faffing with my ambient stuff instead...
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01-22-2020, 03:03 AM
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Human being with feelings
Join Date: May 2015
Location: Warrington, UK
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Quote:
Originally Posted by lerian
Knobman comes with some pre-made projects, open them up and see what parameters are using. There are only few settings to change: steps in preferences (must be odd number), check oversampling 4x to get smooth knobs, then in the right window modify some angle (from, to), and mask from -140 to 140, and if you make pan knobs there is a stop at zero i think. Play with angles zoom, colors, alpha, stack up layers, and thats all about it. It takes few minutes to understand what does what then its a breeze.
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Thank you for the tips lerian
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