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Old 08-24-2009, 07:47 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by politcat View Post
i'm assuming the sticks don't spring back to the center on that little controller, correct?
They do. That's why I made buttons 9 and 10 freeze/unfreeze. It allows you to move the joystick, hit the button and the value you were holding remain unchanged.

It's very difficult to find compact joysticks that aren't self-centering. The only ones I know of are the doepfer ones and they're very expensive (about $70 for just the joystick, another 12 for the rod, and that doesn't include the circuit to send midi).

At first I thought the self-centering would be limiting too but now that I've used it with freeze/unfreeze I actually like it. Especially having modwheel and channel pressure on the same joystick adds a lot of variability under my right thumb.
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