V5 is here

[jofemodo]

Hi @tunagenes !

Nice to read your feedback. Please, send more!!

@tunagenes

First up - I’d like the encoders to be labeled with their functions as push-buttons. I think I understand why they’re not, that the keypad replaces them, but I find them useful.

Knob functionality is very contextual in the V5. We could had labeled them as #1, #2, #3, #4, but i preferred to keep the design clean. Less is more and aesthetics are important too. Anyway, your suggestion is well noted.

@tunagenes

and while you’re updating that - the audio in and out labeling seems misleading - they aren’t really Mic ins and speaker outs, correct? Although I must admit it gets the idea of in and out across pretty well and I can’t at this moment think of a better alternative. Arrows would be a bit too ‘abstract’.

We had a much more abstract and very elegant version for the printings. Indeed, there are some nice prototypes by there. Finally we choose a “pragmatic” and no so elegant approach:

• The mic icon for the audio input
• The speaker icon for the audio output

i know, it’s not “formally exact”, but everybody understand the meaning. Perhaps in a future hardware revision we rescue our original idea

@tunagenes

This isn’t really V5 related, it’s the same in V4 - I’d like to see a way to stop the ‘audio test’ function.

Pushing back button doesn’t work? It should. I will check tomorrow.

Regards!