WAV Trigger and Tsunami Unified Configurator settings question (Enc Vol1 and Enc Pitch1)

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I’m wondering about two settings in the Unified Configurator desktop app for the WT/Tsunami. My installed version is 2.00 beta2.

On the Trigger Settings tab, within the Function dropdown, there are two options, Enc Vol1 and Enc Pitch1. I could not locate any information regarding them in the SFE forums, user guide, serial libs, or the Robertsonics site. What do these do, and how can they be used? Wishful thinking leads me to believe they could be inputs for position data from a rotary encoder.

I’ve created similar functionality of course via the serial libraries, by mapping the expected range from either an encoder position or pot value, but a built-in would be cool.

Thank you!

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These unsupported options are indeed for an early experiment in using triggers as rotary encoder inputs. It was problematic for a number of reasons. The SAM S70 has no built-in quadrature encoder peripheral, and in order to be able to read fast encoder movement, it requires interrupts be enabled for at least one of the trigger inputs. I got it working with half precision, but was not happy with it. It would only have ever allowed a single encoder in any event, and with 8 channels of output and pitch bend, did not seem like it would be all that practical. This is a task better suited to a micro-controller handling the UI.