<story><title>How we built Flow</title><url>https://medium.com/@senic/how-we-built-flow-c83dea6ca377</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>whiddershins</author><text>I love any and all attempts to develop, improve, explore, the interface between humans and computers. I think it is one of the areas where not nearly enough is being done ... as a player of the continuum fingerboard, I quickly realized that a transformation of interface can have a more dramatic and meaningful impact on sound than the actual synthesis engine.&lt;p&gt;Roger Linn used to have a great demo on his page showing him playing a prototype Linnstrument using only a sawtooth wave with a lowpass filter, and it sounded more expressive than many top of the line physical modeling synths, because the dimensions of control were so impactful.&lt;p&gt;That said, the Photoshop example you give seems a little bit of a stretch. The Wacom tablet is a wonderful piece of human interface for Photoshop that addresses many of your concerns, and many other concerns, and has existed for years. For example, some Wacom pens have a ring on them that you can use to change brush sizes.&lt;p&gt;Wacom Tablet:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.phaseone.com/work-faster-by-customizing-your-wacom-tablet-in-capture-one-pro-7/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.phaseone.com&amp;#x2F;work-faster-by-customizing-your-wac...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Continuum Fingerboard:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hakenaudio.com/Continuum/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.hakenaudio.com&amp;#x2F;Continuum&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Linnstrument:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rogerlinndesign.com/linnstrument.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.rogerlinndesign.com&amp;#x2F;linnstrument.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>How we built Flow</title><url>https://medium.com/@senic/how-we-built-flow-c83dea6ca377</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>munificent</author><text>If you want programmable high-resolution knobs, this is an area that the music industry has had covered quite well for a long time. A quick Googling for &amp;quot;midi controller knob&amp;quot; brings up:&lt;p&gt;Livid Alias 8&lt;p&gt;Livid DS 1&lt;p&gt;Nektar Panorama P1&lt;p&gt;MIDI Fighter Twister&lt;p&gt;Behringer B-Control Rotary BCR2000&lt;p&gt;Akai LPD8&lt;p&gt;The last one is about seventy bucks and gives you eight independent knobs and eight pads.&lt;p&gt;Of course, there&amp;#x27;s value in minimalism and a good UX for configuring&amp;#x2F;programming the knob(s), but there&amp;#x27;s also something to be said for just trying to solve the problem yourself based on what&amp;#x27;s currently available. If a $70 MIDI controller makes your Photoshop experience noticeably better, great. If not, a single knob might not end up being worth it either, regardless of how well-made it is.</text></comment>