Anecdotally, the Arturia controllers feel better to me in terms of build quality. Granted I haven't owned an M-Audio controller in well over a decade, so take that with a grain of salt.

In terms of what the knobs and pads are for, you'd be able to assign those to parameters of the Slim Phatty using the appropriate midi CC#s (here's a forum post where a user mapped them out). So you'd be able to assign one of the knobs to the filter cutoff for example, and one of the pads to switch the octave of oscillator #1, etc. Possibly useful if the Phatty is racked and you don't want to walk over to it while making a patch, or if you want to manipulate parameters while playing live.

As far as I can tell, you're not really shopping for a feature set beyond what any standard MIDI controller would offer, so you're likely safe buying any well-built controller until your needs change. You might be able to get away with something even more basic without extra knobs/pads like an Arturia Keystep. I'd suggest heading over to your local instrument shop and demoing a few controllers and see if something like the width of the keys, build quality, etc. matter to you. Good luck!

@ustk Sure thing!

Anecdotally, all multimedia gear, audio cables, etc. are sold by the foot in this country. So that's likely the unit that your end user is expecting. The only thing we buy by the yard is fabric, haha.

Edit: Feet with a decimal point is likely the best option here until you're to measurements that are less than 1 foot. Sub-foot measurements should be in inches with a decimal point. Not ideal considering how all of our measurement devices are marked, but your average consumer would know how to navigate this. Ideally in sub-foot measurements, you round your inches to the nearest 1/16" unless that level of inaccuracy breaks functionality.

Not sure about in an audio engineering context, but to a layperson in the United States at least, yards are rarely used as a unit outside of American Football. AF is a very popular sport, and yards are displayed with decimal points frequently when talking about statistics related to the sport. I'd say that your average person in this country wouldn't think it was strange to see yards represented with a decimal point, but generally we are used to seeing feet + inches, or feet paired with a fraction.

For example:
0.5 yards represented as 1 ft. 6" or 1 1/2 ft.

@natan

Haha, just found it a few minutes after I made this hasty forum post. Dropping the alpha of ItemColour. Oof. Really appreciate the response though!

Hello!

I'm working on implementing an interface for my first HISE experiment and I encountered something that googling and forum digging didn't answer. Is there a way to remove/change the "i" symbol on the left-hand side of the TooltipPanel? See the red arrow on the image below for reference:

Thanks in advance!

Wow, prompt service here, haha.

Thanks everyone! Of course the solution was staring me right in the face.

Hey gang,

I feel like a total moron here. This is terrible first impression/first post, but how do I load stuff like this into HISE from the forum:

It doesn't appear to be embedded as a downloadable file, etc. Not sure what I'm missing here, but I do feel pretty dumb.

Thanks in advance! This forum has been a great resource so far in learning the software, I'd just like to be further self-sufficient and I've hit a wall.