# How would you consider the distance between the encoders?

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**Created:** [December 9, 2021, 2:05pm UTC](https://forum.electra.one/t/how-would-you-consider-the-distance-between-the-encoders/1190 "2021-12-09T14:05:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![farcaller](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.electra.one/farcaller/32/627_2.png) [@farcaller](https://forum.electra.one/u/farcaller)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2021, 2:05pm UTC](https://forum.electra.one/t/how-would-you-consider-the-distance-between-the-encoders/1190/1 "2021-12-09T14:05:12Z")

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I noticed that whenever I get to turn any encoder I’m being extra careful about not touching its neighbors, and yet I always do. It’s usually not enough to actually twist anything I didn’t expect by accident but it still provides some negative tactile feedback.

Not sure if I’m just overly fat-fingered (the 5th position on a violin does give me a lot of trouble), but I also compared E1 to my existing controllers and here’s what I noticed.

NI’s Komplete Kontrol has the exact same distance between the encoders but KK’s are couple mm slimmer.

Korg nanoKontrol2’s encoders are both slimmer and a 3 mm further apart than E1’s.

I’m just curious in general if that’s me alone with this kind of issue or other people notice it too. I guess a new hw revision that spaces the knobs apart would be a mess at that changes all the dimensions, but maybe going for slimmer knobs could be a good alternative?

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**Author:** ![martin](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.electra.one/martin/32/145_2.png) [@martin](https://forum.electra.one/u/martin)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2021, 4:43pm UTC](https://forum.electra.one/t/how-would-you-consider-the-distance-between-the-encoders/1190/2 "2021-12-09T16:43:16Z")

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I had a good discussion about that at the superbooth with a few people. It seems there are people who like knobs currently used and there are people who would prefer conic and less “sharp” knobs.

I was playing around with knobs that are used on the NI Maschine MK1 and I liked that. The knob touch needs slightly more sensitive calibration for the plastic. If I am able to source good quality knobs like that, I will make them available for purchase for a fair price. Replacing them would be an easy job that anybody can do.