help with knobs!!!!

oddson · 15 Mar 2009

i am trying to replace some of the knobs on one of my creations with one downloaded from this forum

What did you download? A graphic strip, a background image, or a completed knob?

pjbridger · 15 Mar 2009

im assuming its a completed knob

its from the knubz.osm 🙂

oddson · 16 Mar 2009

If its a complete knob you can either go through the OSM and replace each one or... if you've used the same knob throughout (or a smallish number of types) you may be able to synchronize all your knobs and insert the works of the new one in place of the old.

Steps: Save a copy first in case you mess up... Find a knob. Select the module. (a small icon of two curved arrows pointing to each others tails with the number of synchronized modules should appear in the lower left) Delete everything except the ratio output. Open the new style knob, copy all the contents except the ratio output Go back to the now empty control and paste, connect the right-most module to the ratio output (should be either a min/max or a preset module). Repeat with any knobs that weren't changed on the last go through.

You can just replace the Knob module inside the control instead of everything... that will usually work but may lack the preview module used in the properties panel.

pjbridger · 16 Mar 2009

ok it worked! but........

now the knobs are in the wrong places.....

can i sort this?

oh and could i ask you another question after this? 😉 😉

oddson · 16 Mar 2009

pjbridger wrote: ok it worked! but........

now the knobs are in the wrong places.....

That's why you saved a copy... if you have the same type of knobs as the one you want to use (animated for example) you could just load the new graphic strip or background image and make the necessary changes to the properties.

How many knobs are we talking about?

pjbridger wrote: oh and could i ask you another question after this?

That is another question... but yes. 🙂

pjbridger · 16 Mar 2009

lol

basically i want to change the three knobs on the analog lfo for some other animated ones

how would i go about doing this?

ill save the other question for a sec 😊

oddson · 16 Mar 2009

If you don't have the animated strip but have a working animated button the following steps will extract the stip:

1) Open a blank OSM and insert the control you want to extract the strip from 2) Drill down into the schematic following this path:

Animated Knob//Knob//Interaction

The path may very slightly if the knob you've found is very old

3) Paste the module from this file: into this level.

Connect the graphic output from the Knob module to the input of the module from this file.

Click on the 'save' button and save to somewhere you can find easily.

To load this strip into existing controls: You may need to determine what the size of the objects are in the strip. Right clicking the file and viewing the properties should allow you to determine the width 32 pixels is standard. If it is that you likely won't have to do anything other than loading it through the property panel of the existing controls.

If it is other you will have to change the cell width and cell height properties (normally the height and width are the same...) Its also possible the number of cells is different but I leave that to you to figure out.

pjbridger · 16 Mar 2009

ok man (thanks for helping me by the way)

i have got to saving the image as a png (comes up as a big strip with every knob?)

and i load this in and it shows up 🙂

but it doesnt turn 🙁

i have tried changing various numbers but i cant get anything to work

oddson · 16 Mar 2009

Well... I guess you'll have to replace each knob and deal with the extra work of reconfiguring the GUI.

If the new graphic shows then the graphic must have loaded. You could count the number of images in the strip, and make sure the height x number is the overall size of the strip in pixels... but if you've done all that I'm out of ideas.

I couldn't locate the knob you referred to (no hit on 'knubz'). If you mail me an OSM with the just the knob I'll have a look and try to figure why it's not working for you -- but at this point I suspect it's faster just to rebuild the GUI with the new knob.

pjbridger · 17 Mar 2009

thank you for your hrlp oddson i have not had any luck yet (v frustrating) but will keep trying

oh and sorry its nubz.osm not knubz

thanks again 🙂

pjbridger · 17 Mar 2009

sorted it out it was staring in my face thank you again for the help 🙂