T3 Control wheel

[Atomicunderware]

Something that has been bugging me since I bought my Taurus a while back is the range of the control wheel. When the wheel is physically at about half way, it reads about 3200, which is over three quarters of the available sweep, so in effect the most effective part of the control (particularly with the cutoff) is only available right at the bottom of the wheels movement. The top half covers much less, and arguably much less that is actually useful. Is there any way of changing this? The wheel is properly calibrated. I have looked at a number of youtube videos, and as far as I can tell my unit is not unique...so is this just the way it is, or is there something I am missing?

[EMwhite]

Two things and you may have tried this already so forgive me if I state the obvious.

Taurus 3 has no way to move the wheel to match a patch when it's brought up, so you need to 'zero' or 'max' it in order to reset the range. From that point it will behave properly, which is to say that it should be around 2000 midway and up to 4000 (4095 to be precise).

Of course none of this matters if your wheel needs to be re-calibrated and that can be done by accessing System Utilities under Master, then Calibration then either Note, Control or Volume wheel calibration. On the version of code that I have it's a bit wonky which is to say that you press different buttons in order to get the cursor to advance than you would expect (at least when compared to my Little Phatty which has a similar interface).

I should also mention that Taurus 3 does not have (at least the code that I have) a 'relative' or a 'catch up' mode to the wheel, it's absolute and only relative to starting position but in linear fashion. Thus the topping out or zero'ing that is required. There is a chance that this may have been changed in the newest version of firmware, mine is a bit dated.

Have a look at one of the videos on the Taurusbass.com web site of Amos and company in the studio checking out the T3 vs a T1 and you'll see him push the wheel to either extreme.

Hope this helps! If not, Mr. Arkadin will be along shortly, he speaks and writes English : )

[Atomicunderware]

Thanks for the reply. The wheel it correctly calibrated, and behaves as it should, it's simply that fifty percent isn't fifty percent, if that makes sense. Having looked at a whole bunch of youtube videos now I can see that it's common to every T3 where I can see the control wheel in use. It's not the end of the world, the pots on plenty of my digital gear more often than not wont show 50% when the pot is physically at half way, but this is a performance control, and it is tough to be accurate when the most useful part of the sweep is concentrated in such a small portion of the wheels travel. I cant imagine it would be difficult to rectify in a software update - something the T3 is unlikely to ever see again!