A machined aluminum dial with a motor where the clicks used to be.
A machined aluminum dial with a motor where the clicks used to be. It steps 24 crisp clicks a turn in Resolve, bumps at 0 dB in Logic and snaps to every hunk in your diff.
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Fully refundable. Locks the $299 launch price.
$299 until 12.04. Free shipping.
$349. Free shipping, 60-day studio trial.
Pick a feel, then turn the dial. Firmware moves the clicks, sets how hard they land and decides whether the knob springs home.
Ratchet
Twenty-four crisp clicks per turn, like a good camera dial.
Fluid
No clicks. Weighted and slippery, like a flywheel in oil.
Spring
Pulls back to center. The further you push, the harder it pushes back.
Clock
Twelve heavy detents with a deeper one at noon.
Wall
Hard stops at zero and a hundred, a soft bump halfway.
Magnet
Smooth until it finds something that matters, then it snaps.
In practice Step through frames, list items, undo history.
In practice Scrub timelines, zoom canvases, sweep filters.
In practice Shuttle playback speed, pitch bend, nudge values.
In practice Switch tools, pick brushes, choose tracks.
In practice Volume, opacity, brush size: anything with a real range.
In practice Jump between markers, keyframes, git hunks, chorus and verse.
Three feels in. Want the real one?
One tap first: what would you turn it for?
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Keep scrolling and it comes apart. Six of its eight layers, stacked the way they are assembled, each with the number that matters.
1.43 ″ round AMOLED
466 × 466 pixels under strengthened glass, set into the knob face. It shows what the knob is holding right now: a frame number, a gain in dB, an angle.
Ø 58 mm knurled ring
Turned from 6061-T6 aluminum and knurled so a fingertip finds grip without looking. The indicator line is tally red on every finish except Tally.
32 mN·m peak torque on USB-C
A brushless gimbal motor under field-oriented control at 10 kHz. There is no mechanical click anywhere inside. Every detent you feel is this motor pushing back, with up to 24 mN·m on battery.
0.022 ° resolution
A 14-bit magnetic encoder reads 16,384 positions per turn, so the firmware knows where a detent should start before your finger reaches it.
2,000 mAh about 40 h of haptics
Run it on Bluetooth, or leave it on USB-C for good: a charge limiter keeps the cell healthy. When it does wear out, the cell is sold as a part.
412 g Ø 72 mm, 44 mm tall
Solid aluminum on a replaceable micro-suction foot. Flick the knob as hard as you like; the base stays where you put it.
Switch windows and the feel switches with you. 64 profiles live on the dial itself, so the right one is loaded before your hand is back on the knob. Try it: pick an app, then turn.
Turn the dial above. It changes feel with the mode you pick here.
Frame-step in Ratchet, shuttle in Spring, snap to markers in Magnet. Detent for video editors
Turn the dial above. It changes feel with the mode you pick here.
Fader rides with a bump at unity gain. Detent for music producers
Poster · 1200 × 800
Layer · turn
Fine · 10:1
Turn the dial above. It changes feel with the mode you pick here.
Rotate, resize and scrub numeric fields without touching the trackpad. Detent for designers & 3D artists
import { fetchResults } from './api'; Added: import type { Result } from './api'; Removed: const DELAY = 300; Added: const DELAY_MS = 180; const MIN_QUERY = 2; let timer: number | undefined; Added: let inflight: AbortController | undefined; input.addEventListener('input', () => { clearTimeout(timer); Removed: timer = setTimeout(run, DELAY); Added: timer = window.setTimeout(run, DELAY_MS); }); async function run() { const q = input.value.trim(); Removed: if (q.length < MIN_QUERY) return; Removed: const results = await fetchResults(q); Removed: render(results); Added: if (q.length < MIN_QUERY) return render([]); Added: inflight?.abort(); Added: inflight = new AbortController(); Added: try { Added: render(await fetchResults(q, { signal: inflight.signal })); Added: } catch (err) { Added: if ((err as Error).name !== 'AbortError') throw err; Added: } } Removed: function render(results: any[]) { Removed: list.innerHTML = ''; Added: function render(results: Result[]) { Added: list.replaceChildren(); for (const r of results) { list.hidden = results.length === 0; Added: status.textContent = results.length Added: ? `${results.length} results` Added: : 'No matches. Try fewer words.'; } Removed: export const VERSION = '1.3.0'; Added: export const VERSION = '1.4.0'; Turn the dial above. It changes feel with the mode you pick here.
Magnet snaps through diff hunks and problems; Ratchet walks the undo stack. Detent for developers
Now look at it in daylight.
412 g of 6061-T6 aluminum, cut from solid bar, blasted, anodized and held together by screws you are allowed to undo.
Bead-blasted 6061 aluminum. Cool, bright, a little industrial.
Configure in RawAnodized near-black. Disappears on a dark desk until you touch it.
Configure in GraphitePale blue anodize, the color of cold aluminum at 6 a.m.
Configure in GlacierThe on-air red. Numbered, engraved, and only on the Founders Edition. Founders Edition only
Configure in TallyA billet of 6061-T6 aluminum is sawn to length. Body and knob both start as solid bar.
CNC turning and milling cut the body, the knob and its knurl from that one bar.
Glass beads give every surface the same soft, even matte. Raw finishes leave the line here as bare metal.
Type II anodize for Graphite, Glacier, and Tally. The color grows into the aluminum’s surface rather than sitting on top of it.
Your words on the base, free. Founders Edition bases carry a serial, 0001–2000.
Four Torx screws hold it together, and they are meant to come out. Battery, foot and knob cap are sold as parts.
3-year warranty, parts and labor. The 60-day studio trial comes first.
Detent Studio runs without an account, a cloud or a subscription. Profiles are plain JSON on the dial, the SDK is open and the firmware is Apache-2.0. If Detent Labs disappeared tomorrow, your dial would not notice.
The idea stands on the shoulders of Scott Bezek’s open-source SmartKnob. If you like building things, go read it.
{
"format": "detent.profile/1",
"name": "Code review",
"app": "com.microsoft.VSCode",
"when": "isInDiffEditor",
"base": "magnet",
"color": "#ff7a59",
"physics": {
"strength": 0.9,
"damping": 0.12,
"snaps": {
"source": "diff.hunks"
}
},
"turn": {
"cw": "workbench.action.compareEditor.nextChange",
"ccw": "workbench.action.compareEditor.previousChange"
},
"press": {
"light": "git.stageSelectedRanges",
"hard": "git.revertSelectedRanges"
},
"display": {
"text": "{hunk} of {hunks}"
}
}Snap to each diff hunk in VS Code. Press to stage it, press hard to revert. Edit it in any text editor.
Each one gets its own feel, chosen for what you do there. Everything else gets the system set: scroll, zoom, undo, volume, brightness and media, in every app, out of the box.
Early tester notes from illustrative personas. Detent is a concept product, so these are not customer reviews.
I stopped overshooting edits in the first hour. The Ratchet click is exactly one frame and my hand learned it before my head did.
Unity gain has a little bump now. I did not know I needed that until I had it, and now every other fader feels broken.
Magnet mode through a code review is ridiculous. It snaps to each hunk. I review faster and I look at every change.
The weight is the first thing you notice. The second is that you keep touching it when you are thinking.
Same motor, same encoder, the same 64 on-device profiles and every update after. Founders adds the red, the number and the walnut.
The dial. Every feel, every integration, every update.
$349
$299 Regular price $349
Every reservation locks the $299 launch price.
Launch price, locked with a $20 refundable deposit that comes off the price.
Launch price until December 4.
or 4 interest-free payments of $87.25.
Raw, Graphite, or Glacier
Configure Detent One Numbered 0001–2000 in Tally red, with a machined walnut plinth.
$449
Reserve with a $50 refundable deposit.
or 4 interest-free payments of $112.25.
A run of 2,000, serial-engraved. When they are gone, Tally is gone.
Reservations ship in Batch 1, February 2027.
Reserve today and yours ships in Batch 1, February 2027.
Order today and yours ships in Batch 2, April 2027.
One email when the list opens 10.20. Nothing else.
Free. Every friend who confirms earns you a reward.
Fully refundable. Locks the $299 launch price.
$299 until 12.04. Free shipping.
$349. Free shipping, 60-day studio trial.
The rest are in Support & FAQ, including shipping countries, returns and the SDK.
A $20 deposit holds your place and locks the $299 launch price on Detent One. The Founders Edition is always $449; its $50 deposit holds one numbered serial. When your batch is ready we email a ship date and a link to pay the rest; the deposit comes off the price. Cancel any time before it ships for a full refund, one click, no questions.
Batch 1 ships in February 2027 and Batch 2 in April 2027. Reservations are filled in order, and your confirmation email shows your batch.
Yes, from December 4, when the store goes live. Checkout splits the price into 4 interest-free payments: $87.25 each for Detent One at $349. It is not offered on deposits or on launch-week orders.
Use it for 60 days. If it has not earned its spot on your desk, send it back with the prepaid label for a full refund.
Every app gets the system set out of the box: scroll, zoom, undo, volume, brightness and media. Beyond that, the open SDK lets anyone publish a profile, and most community profiles take an evening to write.
No. Detent Studio runs locally, profiles live on the device, and nothing is sent anywhere unless you opt in to crash reports.
Clock: twelve heavy detents with a deeper one at noon. Give it a turn, then pick yours.
One email when the list opens 10.20. Nothing else.
Free. Every friend who confirms earns you a reward.
Fully refundable. Locks the $299 launch price.
$299 until 12.04. Free shipping.
$349. Free shipping, 60-day studio trial.