Decreasing knob response speed for certain tasks

maybe this is just a lua script thing I need to figure out, but I have certain knobs in presets that are turning too fast, particularly program change ones, where the slightest touch jumps a preset, so I’m often jumping 2 to 3 presets on accident. Is there a way to make it so that I can slow down the knob’s response on electra? like making it respond to every two encoder changes instead of one, something like that?

I cannot give you an answer as to how to do it, but I have some presets that give a good program change selection experience. They use a control to select the program number first, then a button to activate it and request the parameters. There are also buttons to increment/decrement by one program. The K4 preset by NewIgnis is one.

Another more direct method, using just a knob, is achieved by the Bitwig preset by Moss, but this is going through a transformation in a Bitwig script. It takes quite a rotation of the knob before the program change actually happens.

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There is an option (on mk2 running 4.0) to configure one of the hardware buttons to decelerate knob readings. It can be configured using the Settings screen / Buttons tab and assigning the Toggle sensitivity function to one of the hardware buttons.

I am not sure, however, if it is a good solution for you though - if it is needed only for one specific control.

This helps, but it would be nice if the editor allowed users to select a slower scroll speed when adding a parameter in general.

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