February is Toronto AES Audio Engineering Society Member showcase….
Back in 2013, I presented a concept at the AES Toronto meeting called the “Linear Traveling Potentiometer” (LTP).
The idea was simple but mechanically complex: Combine a linear fader and a rotary potentiometer into a single, fluid control. Two motions, one component.
I even had a prototype in a “black bag” that I let people feel without seeing. The goal was to control intensity (volume) and position (pan) simultaneously—a single-point coordinate system for surround sound and spatial audio.
For years, this existed mostly as hardware prototypes and sketches. But the vision never went away.
Now, nearly 15 years later, I have finally recreated my vision purely in software. Click, grab it like a fader… Move up for volume and sideways to pan…
I’ve brought the “Two in One” concept to life digitally. No moving parts, just the physics of the original idea translated into code.
It’s been a long road from that first presentation to this software build. Sometimes the technology just needs to catch up to the idea.
