The thing is, our widget model has significant benefits over that single widget/multiple parameter approach. Take a look at this collection of (just) five widgets linked together.
The outer ring shows the actual scaled value for each widget and you can easily have a title telling you what each widget is doing.
If you use a single knob with multiple parameters (as some plugins and hosts do), then you have a knob with a large number of rings around it that very soon gets out of control. It’s also not feasible to easily indicate what each one is doing. In a DAW/recording world, that may work but we believe that in a live performance situation, the ability to see immediately what’s going on with each widget is more important and has to be easy to view/understand.
So for example, you can easily see that the vocal volume is off when the organ volume is half-way up.
