This thread was useful when I made the decision to buy a Roto Control so I thought I should add some input after buying one. Unfortunately I had to return it as I had both hardware and software issues. Build quality was definitely not what I expected overall.
- One of the encoders was intermittently ‘gritty’ at certain points in the rotation, somewhere around 6–7 o’clock.
- No matter which selector you touched it would sometimes randomly act like I’d touched encoder 7. It would also select encoder 7 if you pressed down on the plastic case at certain points.
- It made a wee high pitched noise every time I nudged a region in Logic, even though the encoders weren’t moving when I did this. It did this for some other actions to, like it was communicating something to the Roto Control. Maybe I’m more sensitive to this frequency but I could also hear something every time I turned an encoder or moved between pages.
- Renaming a button label for a plug-in also renamed the button label in one of my midi-device setups and vice versa. It took me quite a while to figure out what was going on here.
- I could never get it to work without the external power supply, even corrected directly to my MacBook. Having to use two cables and no power off switch wasn’t great.
Overall, I loved the motorised encoders and feedback but the above problems meant it got in my way more than helping my workflow.