A setting to dim all leds to comfy max brightness

[larioso]

If having fully lit room it is fine as is, but otherwise it blinds me what text is below the led on panel.

I have a spotlight in one end, and there it is fine on left side but middle and to the right a problem to read what text under lit led.

I usually have to put finger over led to read the text under it.

Thinking a general, or some steps to select how bright you need max lit have to be.
Since regulated pulse a lot on LFO and such should not be a problem I think as a global setting.

[arthur_antoine]

+ 1 thanks

[flexionmusic]

+1 Yes please.

[jackyjoy123]

thanks for the awesome information.

[SIAHBOY]

This!

[Yohonis]

+1 for this!

[sander37]

+1 for LED dimming

The intensity of the LED's makes some texts really hard to see, in a dimly lit room.


It would not improve on the beautiful looks of the PB, if I had to put some semi transparent tape over the leds.

[sander37]

A reply from Arturia would be nice.

How should we know if these feature requests are ever read by Arturia?

[StudioDeutz]

...I usually have to put finger over led to read the text under it.
...

That' how I do it.
I have an old red spot foil left over - covering up the LED does not help. So I assume dimming does it not...
The finger reflects the light onto the symbols/text - it is better.

[sander37]

I sent in  a "support request" for this issue.

and 2 more explanatory emails. because support is not really good at "comprehensive reading" (I don't know why I printed this in small size because Arturia is not reading this anyway.)


After a very frustrating email conversation, it ended in "Computer Says NO!".


The status LEDs ar probably not on PWM outputs, but just on digital outputs of the processor, so a firmware update cannot help us.

DIY MODE:

If you want to dim the LED's, use an EDDING 400 Black.
I tried an EDDING 751 Black, but that was too much, this is not transparent at all.

The Black 400 dims quit a bit, to an exaptable level.
I'm not completely satisfied with the results of an Edding 400 black, it gives the right amount of dimming, but the coverage could be more equal over the entire surface of a led.
Maybe a semi transparant or gray 751 would work.


If anyone has a better suggestion, please post it.


P.S.
Q-tips and alcohol allow for some experimentation....

[StudioDeutz]

"Q-tips and alcohol allow for some experimentation...." Alcohol ok, but what should I do with the Q-tips while drinking :-)

[emanuelsj]

I have some nanoleaf panels right in front of the PolyBrute, but this is not enough to make the labels readable next to the powerful leds. All my synths have the feature of dimming the leds: the Waldorf Quantum, the Virus Ti2 Polar and the Yamaha Montage too. I think only my Behringer DeepMind12 doesn't have that, but I never checked, because the orange lights are eyes friendly. C'mon Arturia, why is it so difficult to dim those blinding leds?

[Tarekith]

Just got my Polybrute yesterday and the first thing I did was search to see how to dim the lights.  Blinding in a darker studio!  So yes, a +1 for me too!

[rrr123]

I vote for this too. I can't read the labels when the room lights are dimmed because I'm dazzled by the LED glare. I have to cover the LED with a finger so I can see what I'm doing.

[StudioDeutz]

After a few tests I ended up by covering the LEDs with black sticky tape - not gaffer, but a simple one. I cut the tape to appropriate length to about 4 mm width.
That does it for me. The light is now a very "dark yellowish"....should be easy to remove and clean.