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Davide-NYC:
OK here goes some suggestions for better useability in the WRS.

1.

This only applies for stereo sources, so while INPUT == LINE-IN:

Instead of displaying two separate Gains (Gain Left and Gain Right) display only one Gain labelled

Gain Stereo: < GvalueL | GvalueR >

Where 'GvalueL' and 'GvalueR' are the Left/Right Gain values as diplayed in the two-line display.
LEFT/RIGHT would just adjust both Gains in equal increments until either gain hits a min/max.

Volume: 0 dB
Gain Stereo: < -64.0 dB | +13.5 dB >
AGC: Off

If a user highlights Gain Stereo and presses the SELECT button the display adds a line displaying the separate Gain Left and Gain Right lines with both Gains highlighted/selected. As it is currently.

(SELECT)
Volume: 0 dB
Gain Left: -64.0 dB
Gain Right: -13.5 dB
AGC: Off

The 'selection option' and 'change value options' are as they are now:
LEFT/RIGHT changes selected/highlighted value.
DOWN highlights/selects only Gain Left, DOWN again highlights/selects only Gain Right, and DOWN again selects the AGC line.

(DOWN)
Volume: 0 dB
Gain Left: -64.0 dB
Gain Right: -13.5 dB
AGC: Off

(DOWN)
Volume: 0 dB
Gain Left: -64.0 dB
Gain Right: -13.5 dB
AGC: Off

(DOWN)
Volume: 0 dB
Gain Left: -64.0 dB
Gain Right: -13.5 dB
AGC: Off


Pressing SELECT while having any Gain Line highlighted/selected toggles between single line or double line display. So if you wanted to hide the extra line you could by just pressing SELECT with any Gain Line highlighted/selected.

2.

AGC max gain setting should be accessed with a SELECT press, not a DOWN.
This way if anything need to be added to the WRS it can be added without modifying the button schema.  :)

(I'm thinking real-time encoding values in the future)


The only problem I see with the first change is if the user has one gain 'max'ed and the other gain 'min'ed.

Volume: 0 dB
Gain Stereo: < -64.0 dB | +48.0 dB >
AGC: Off

In this particular case a user wouldn't be able to change the gain at all unless they were aware of this potential problem. I'd prefer it this way instead of incrementing/decrementing the other channel until they were both 'min'ed/'max'ed. But either way is cool I guess.


The second change *should* be easy and I think it makes sense. THe first one might be tricky but I think it's cool since most folks will never mess with their Left/Right Gain balance.


Alright everybody... Wadayatink?

petur:
uch... sorry....

Llorean:
As an alternative, I and some others would like to offer this idea:

The gain is alway shown on one line, like this:


--- Code: ---Gain: [<] -20.4db | [>] 36.4db
--- End code ---
One could highlight it as a normal line, and then press select to toggle between "Both", "Left", and "Right" selections, looking like this:

Both:
--- Code: ---Gain: [<] -20.4db | [>] 36.4db
--- End code ---
Left:
--- Code: ---Gain: [<] -20.4db | > 36.4db
--- End code ---
Right:
--- Code: ---Gain: < -20.4db | [>] 36.4db
--- End code ---

Davide-NYC:
I like it!  :D   More elegant (the screen doesn't re-organize itself) and achieves the goal.

Here's a minor suggestion:

Volume: 0 dB
Gain: [<] -20.4dB | 36.4dB [>]
AGC: Off


Volume: 0 dB
Gain: [<] -20.4dB | 36.4dB  >
AGC: Off


Volume: 0 dB
Gain:  <  -20.4dB | 36.4dB [>]
AGC: Off

I'm not sure the bracket is the correct character to designate selection.
It just doesn't seem to "jump out at you" enough.

Everybody... chime in! It's a party!

Mmmm:
This is an interesting idea but my one, extremely massive complaint with it is that it looks awful. If I saw something like that when I first opened the recording screen I would just give up immediately. It's confusing!

The way it is at the moment is fairly intuitive. You press the down button and you see the different lines highlighted, it's fairly obvious that the highlighted lines are the ones that will change. One line down and you get the stereo change which, as you say, is what most people are going to want to be using and so that is why it is the first you come to.

There is no need to display the gain on one line (it fits nicely on two on all targets), so what is the advantage of this?

So there you go... it gets the NO vote from me! :)

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