14 bit fader chaotically jump between left and right side

I’m noticing a weird behavior on the fader control set to 14 bit (ranging from 0 to 16383). I’d expect it to stop drawing the current fader value into the right (empty) side when reaching the middle area and start drawing it into the left (filled) side. When moving the fader very quickly, it seems to work like that.

However, when moving through the middle area (roughly 9900-11000) at a slower rate, I can easily notice that the fader value jumps between the left and right side multiple times.

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I am not able to check that right now but this could be related to mkII turning knobs to the left sometimes increases values that you reported earlier. The fix is ready for that original issue. I am unable to make a release now, I am hoping I will be able to do that at the weekend. The mk2 pots seem to have slightly different phase shift between their resistance tracks, it results in false direction/value reading at one point.

It might also have to do with the physical length of the value to show. 11111 is smaller than 11110 or 11112, and perhaps the display logic then forces that one value to be shown on the other side of the fader.

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yes, @NewIgnis is right. I thought you meant that the value itself changes abruptly, but if I understand it correctly, you talked about the placement of the value text.

The placement is determined by the length of the value text in pixels. The pixel width of the least significant digit causes that behaviour. I will adjust that. Thx for reporting!

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Fixed in 3.4 on mkII.

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Working really nice with v3.4!

I think I’m seeing a small amount of jitter on the number text when making a continuous movement into one or the other direction. I guess it’s due to the fact that the font used for the values isn’t a monospace font (e.g., the digit 1 takes less space than the digit 2, so whenever a digit switches from 2 to 1 it’ll move a bit due to the entire string taking less space).

Would it be feasible to use a monospace font?

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I have added hysteresis to value label placement and tweaked its thresholds to minimise the problem. There’s still a chance that it will flap left and right. But it should be very rare. Increasing the threshold would remove that but it may result in other visual issues.

I can try monospace font. It is a good idea. I am just a little bit worried that the value texts will be “too wide”.

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