SynthMakerAngularMomentum ·
Here is a collection of knobs...some might be in the WIKI, but there are also a bunch of fresh ones. Feel free to use them as you like.
Have a good one!
More knobs...
From the original SynthMaker forum (2004–2014), with its members’ names and dates.
cymsilly ·
AM..........You are awesome! I've long admired your work. You are the one that actually got me interested in designing knobs and switches. And I always appreciated your humble and eager desire to help others. Thank you for being you!
Hlis93 ·
Always impressively useable stuff, Thanks.
AngularMomentum ·
Thanks guys, Cymsilly, you got some excellent work done, I 😍 the switches you designed!
Got some more of that, here are knobman templates zipped up...40+...
Hlis93 ·
Very generous of you AM. I find it refreshing that you accomplish so much detail with so few layers. Thanks for sharing with us.
AngularMomentum ·
No thanks man, I am way overdue posting stuff... 😝
sunsynth ·
Wow Thomas!
Many thanks 4 this Monster-Pack! 😍
(Hope i have some time 4 learning how 2 use knobman... 😉
Walter
Acrobat ·
OK I got the knobman-fever me too..... I started with an emulation:
http://www.blank-media.it/synthmaker/acrobat_distressor_knob.rar
😀 😀
bootsy ·
Acrobat, that one is real slick! It just looks like it tumbles a little bit around the center - is that intended?
GaryG ·
Acrobat wrote: OK I got the knobman-fever me too..... I started with an emulation: ...
They're really nice, have a very real feel to them when you move them.
Couldn't figure how to hire up anything to the compressor though..?
😉
birdster ·
Ah hell while everyone is in the mindset of giving heres my two cents worth, they have been designed with using them on a touch screen so if you like big knobs (pardon the pun!) here you go !
Acrobat ·
bootsy wrote: Acrobat, that one is real slick! It just looks like it tumbles a little bit around the center - is that intended?
oh thanks bootsie, yeah it's intentional, just like if it has been used a lot! Eheh
Acrobat ·
GaryG wrote: Acrobat wrote: OK I got the knobman-fever me too..... I started with an emulation: ...
They're really nice, have a very real feel to them when you move them.
Couldn't figure how to hire up anything to the compressor though..?
😉
that compressor costs over 2000 euros... I wish I have one of those.. or even a good emulation...!!
birdster ·
Ok its must be near xmas im feeling like giving again, below you will find some pan versions of the knobs i did a couple of posts up, enjoy 😀
If you use them a mention would be nice !
birdster
electrogear ·
They're really nice birdster, great colours & lighting! Not sure about the fader though, I think the indicator should be on the bar rather than the handle, otherwise it looks kinda like a knob stuck on a fader... 😕 ..unless that's what you were going for?
I don't know why but I'm in a very giving way too recently, I've got another 2 or 3 ideas which I'm thinking about, and I will probably release them up here in the near future - one of them is a custom drop list which might help exo with his envelope project, but I'll have to wait until I get enough time to finish it off. Today I've donated a keyboard and might offer up a few knobs later on ... 🙂
Cheers,
Mike
birdster ·
Yeah im not happy with that fader electrogear just one of the many ideas im toying with, i dont come from a gfx background and only started using knobman yesterday so by next week i will be flying heh, i was trying to find a way of having a very subtle visual of a fader in a small area and at the same time trying to stop everything looking cluttered which a dirty great fader would in my opinion, and with the fact all these knobs are being used in a touchscreen project too, hence behaviour, size and genral wierdness 🙂
Good work with the share-athon !!
Were doing good !
birdster 😀
AngularMomentum ·
Bunch of friggin' hijackers here making knobs more beautiful the i am able...grrrrrr.... 😉
Acrobat, those knobs are muchos excellente. I love the way you did the lightning, gives it almost a photorealistic feel to it. I am not sure about the the rotation being off...but if every knob got it's own "offness" in a project, it's awesome, my man!
Birdster, also these knobs have a professional look, much better then I have seen in a lot of commercial stuff and really a style that I prefer myself in my own projects...well done!
Hlis93 ·
Don't worry if one chooses to use AM knobs they are very easy to tie into a panel layout and one does not have to get carried away with extra decorations. That is a very big plus.
I have been working on these below. Although I dumped hours of working into them and I really like them. They are very difficult to put into anything and the end product would look very confusing at best...overdone, so not effective.
So in the end. Its really about personal taste and effectiveness to geting a clear design.
birdster ·
Hey thanks for the comments AM coming from you thats something, love your work 😀 .......
Just been playing a little more made a peak and hold bar VU i cant take credit for it all as i borrowed bits from cymsilly easy-vu-meter.osm
birdster
Acrobat ·
AngularMomentum wrote: but if every knob got it's own "offness"
yeah you got the idea... 😉 Hey, K.O. to Italy and France, wtf!! 😠 😉
Panoply ·
RE a little offness.
Use PNG32 and make them, just a *smidge* transparent.
That way they are affected (obviously) by the background, and each can appear unique, but you'll say massive amounts of room in the exported .dll.
Upside is that it will look supershiny too!
Downside is that you have to be careful that the knobs are not getting sucked into the background - but its very possible to avoid this. Just need to be discrete with the transparency, and not getting into 'look, I've got transparent knobs - isn't that incredible' territory.
But yes, unique knobs are clearly the way to go!
Acrobat ·
Panoply wrote: RE a little offness.
Use PNG32 and make them, just a *smidge* transparent.
That way they are affected (obviously) by the background, and each can appear unique, but you'll say massive amounts of room in the exported .dll.
Upside is that it will look supershiny too!
Well, we can already have transparency control with the PNG "Alpha" setting (integer from 0 to 255). Using that setting we can point to just one PNG strip in memory and have a different transparency for every knob.. 😉
NekroDisko ·
Acrobat, how did you get the numbers around the knob to rotate with KnobMan? I have tried several hours now to make this happen (making a Guitar-style knob) but to no avail. Do you use a bitmap-image or is there acctually a way to animate movement to text?
Hlis93 ·
NekroDisko wrote: Acrobat, how did you get the numbers around the knob to rotate with KnobMan? I have tried several hours now to make this happen (making a Guitar-style knob) but to no avail. Do you use a bitmap-image or is there acctually a way to animate movement to text?
Using just knobman I would do it this way. I would first make a template of the numbers making a circle around a knob. I would then get rid of then knob and export the image (single frame) as a png. Import that into the knob that you are making and all you have to do is rotate it. Simple and quick.
NekroDisko ·
I found out another way to do it, but the result is not quite the way I wanted it. I made a separate layer for each number and altered the Angle(deg) for each in relation to the next. However, the numbers themselves got a little skewed, so not that nice, really. But it worked! I guess I´ll try your approach instead. Thanx! 🙂
Hlis93 ·
I have done it the way that I sugguest several times. It works. I wont post any images but it does work for what I do. Keep in mind that I will make everything a single layer. layer 1 is number 1, layer 2 is number 2, etc
Acrobat ·
Hlis93 wrote: NekroDisko wrote: Acrobat, how did you get the numbers around the knob to rotate with KnobMan? I have tried several hours now to make this happen (making a Guitar-style knob) but to no avail. Do you use a bitmap-image or is there acctually a way to animate movement to text?
Using just knobman I would do it this way. I would first make a template of the numbers making a circle around a knob. I would then get rid of then knob and export the image (single frame) as a png. Import that into the knob that you are making and all you have to do is rotate it. Simple and quick.
well, no, actually the numbers in my knob example are real text elements, placed in relative positions and animated by the same amount of degrees, for example:
0: 0°,300° 1: 15°, 315° 2: 30°,330° 3: 45°,345° 4: 60°,360° 5: 75°,15° 6: 90°,30°
etc etc.... 😉
Hlis93 ·
Acrobat wrote: well, no, actually the numbers in my knob example are real text elements, placed in relative positions and animated by the same amount of degrees, for example:
0: 0°,300° 1: 15°, 315° 2: 30°,330° 3: 45°,345° 4: 60°,360° 5: 75°,15° 6: 90°,30°
etc etc.... 😉
Yes, that is certainly one way to do it.
The reasoning for the way that I suggest is that I will have template developed that I can use in any knob I might develope in the future. All I have to do is modify it quick and export. A single layer is alway easy to keep track of in a project that can get large depending on what you are doing. At least that is my way of thinking on it...
J
NekroDisko ·
Ok, now I see... I didnt know you could use the ¤ signs. Is it degrees? I have searched the help section of knob-man to find various signs to use other than only numbers, but I cant find it. I know the ":" may be used and such, but any other signs are not explained. I will try this as soon as I can! BTW, the approach to use an exported PNG for the same result worked wonders! Thanx! 😀
Acrobat ·
NekroDisko wrote: Ok, now I see... I didnt know you could use the ¤ signs. Is it degrees? I have searched the help section of knob-man to find various signs to use other than only numbers, but I cant find it. I know the ":" may be used and such, but any other signs are not explained. I will try this as soon as I can! BTW, the approach to use an exported PNG for the same result worked wonders! Thanx! 😀
ehm no, what I've used in my post is not the actual syntax of the software, it's just my own... eh eh I've simply set the degrees giving a proper rotation to every text layer, making'em sensible to the mouse action. 😉
drumma ·
Cool knobs thanks guys 🙂
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