Centre Detent control pattern

Question

I find I often want a (VCS) control with a centre detent. Does anyone else find that? And how do you get round that?

For instance I'll have an oscillator (well ok a feedbacking speaker through a modal filter) and I'll want to transpose it up through harmonics, 2x, 3x, 4x and down 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, that kind of thing. Sometimes I want continuous control (eg. 2.4759x) but I still want to easily and accurately find the centre of the VCS control (1x). Has anyone found a good way of doing this?

Answer 1

Hi Alan,

If you start with TriggeredSoundToGlobalController from the Prototypes, it's already set up to return to a value of 0 when !Reset is true; you could modify it such that the Value is set to 1 and the GeneratedValue is !Harmonic. The !Harmonic fader could have Tic Marks and Labels turned on so you can change the widget to VerticalRadioButtons (fill). That would give you discrete harmonics with a Reset button that would return to the value of 1.