Instead of clicking through one parameter after the other with the mouse, a panel allows the colourist to control several parameters simultaneously in real time. The bread and butter are still the three balls and rings (or, in the case of the Wave 2, the master dials), but the more rotary encoders and buttons a panel has, the more functions can be called up and set at the touch of a button without having to click through countless submenus. This saves a huge amount of time. The market now distinguishes between so-called dedicated panels - i.e. panels that are specifically tailored to a software and only work with this software - and free panels, which are supported by a variety of software packages. We take a look at a bit of both in the lower price category. Free panels are in the price segment of under 3,000 euros - the only outlier here is the Tangent Arc, which is available for around 13,000 euros (and is therefore still inexpensive compared to similarly equipped panels). Tangent i...
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