# What about 12 controllers in a row in FW3, new control formats, fonts and texts?

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**Category:** Ideas / Feature requests\
**Tags:** controller-firmware\
**Created:** [July 8, 2022, 8:21am UTC](https://forum.electra.one/t/what-about-12-controllers-in-a-row-in-fw3-new-control-formats-fonts-and-texts/1601 "2022-07-08T08:21:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![NewIgnis](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.electra.one/newignis/32/767_2.png) [@NewIgnis](https://forum.electra.one/u/NewIgnis)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 8:21am UTC](https://forum.electra.one/t/what-about-12-controllers-in-a-row-in-fw3-new-control-formats-fonts-and-texts/1601/1 "2022-07-08T08:21:52Z")

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For certain purposes, it would be great to have (on a single page) a control matrix not of 6 by 6 but 12 by 6. The screen would then be divided in 6 instead of 3 control sections.Every current section would then be split in left and right.

Applications where having 8 to 12 controls in a row might be useful would be correlated of course with new control formats:

- Sequencer steps (vertical instead of horizontal bars)  
 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/uploads/electraone/original/2X/8/8e3c44f5cc9486c53dc046e092f2f5f06747c219.png)

Imagine that the upper left and right buttons are then used to scroll to previous/next page, that would give you an intuitive way to go through 64 Step sequences with 4 to 6 lines, spread over 6 pages.

- Fetching a synth name (big characters with a tiny bar beneath)  
 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/uploads/electraone/original/2X/3/3bdb4dde768a1452607ea117632172ad75602f9c.png)

- 12 Keyboard notes (black and white pads)  
 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/uploads/electraone/original/2X/6/65b8e6eb2569451414744a3a77e14ba06497d9d5.png)

For the latter, a super control would even be better, i.e a keyboard control with the width of the screen, having op to 25 touch notes.  
 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/uploads/electraone/original/2X/6/66160907d3b44930ae3fed39909906615b3e1256.png)

Text controls would also be useful. Such control isn’t doing anything, just showing text snippets. Or why not have a different shape for a pad, that allows it to contain some more text in variable text sizes? If the overlay would allow more text as well that would provide context to a pad, without needing the manual.

![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/uploads/electraone/original/2X/1/10101cb0ead29afa2e1c290a4ca8777f8f81dd6b.png)

Last but not least, apart from having all the choice between small and capital letters, a useful feature would be to have a condensed font. In other words the same letter height, but more letters would fit in a space. Ideal when you just can’t squeeze in those last 2 letters…

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**Author:** ![zinoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a87d85/32.png) [@zinoff](https://forum.electra.one/u/zinoff)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2022, 10:04pm UTC](https://forum.electra.one/t/what-about-12-controllers-in-a-row-in-fw3-new-control-formats-fonts-and-texts/1601/2 "2022-07-17T22:04:20Z")

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Maybe something like what’s already there for ADSR but with 12 controllers?