jpetersen
They need a woodgrain skin to make 'em sound warmer.

Could be an interesting extension. Might get pulled though...

These are the "MixStrip" (read Pro Channel Junior) tools that are provided with Music Creator 7.  They actually do use FX that ship with Platinum, but without all of the controls (attack, decay, wet, dry, etc.) to keep from confusing people who are new to recording in-the-box.   I use Platinum most of the time, but I do have MC7 on a travel laptop.  I found that the MixStrip tools were great for a first pass at a project. 
 
I am glad that Cakewalk decided to push these in Platinum releases as I do find them really convenient to rough things in early on in mixing.
 
Glen

Anderton
You're writing a song. You want a quick effect but don't want to interrupt your creative flow. So you grab a Style Dial and keep on writing.
 
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/...xpectation-reality.jpg

Hmm maybe style dials should be included with presets to speed up workflow :)

Doktor Avalanche
...you can get a sound up pretty quickly without having to use one knob.

Uhm... you mean by using a preset? LOL

Even Waves make style dials, with their one button plugs by CLA etc. If it works, use it!

But Cakewalk, can we have one that says Cappuccino, Latte, Macchiato please? :O)  

I would like this one. It's a style-dial-preset-dial called MOJO...and that's exactly what it does.
Gives your mix more of it. I heard from reliable source that it's in the making
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ithgo38nnfa1z75/MojoDial.jpg?dl=0
Dr.A. has already given away part of the surprise for presets 1 'o clock till 5 'o clock.
I think we should keep the remaining presets a surprise.
 
 
Nb:
(just to clarify before someone get's upset. Just havin' a bit of fun here.
 I don't mind the style-dials myself, except for the SIZE of them in the prochannel.)

Waves has a set of one knobbers, called the waves one knob series.  So simple has a place, and as a feature it is not galaxies outside the box anyway http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/OKSeriesBun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXG5IFc_QPU
 
Grit, Space and Max
 

I have used the grit dial on a rhythm guitar track on a blues song I'm working on and it roughed it up just enough and I have used the space dial at the end of a song that had a dead stop ending in which I automated the dial increasing the amount in the last two bars giving the ending a nice pop of reverb.  Both times the style knobs worked well, quick and easy.  For a fast effect plug one in and go.  I like the idea of putting the Grit knob on a sax part. It's good to have them available thanks !
 
Blackie

Anderton
FWIW I have a personal collection of about 40 one-knob processors I used for songwriting, but these are more complex than just turning a knob to change a parameter. For example with the compressor, turning up the knob lowers the threshold, increases the ratio, makes the knee harder, and adjusts the output to compensate for the changes. So somewhere along that continuum, I can usually find the setting I want in a couple seconds. 

So what do you think is easier to manage? Having 40 one knob plugins? Or having one plugin with 40 knobs and presets to select?

Doktor Avalanche

Anderton
FWIW I have a personal collection of about 40 one-knob processors I used for songwriting, but these are more complex than just turning a knob to change a parameter. For example with the compressor, turning up the knob lowers the threshold, increases the ratio, makes the knee harder, and adjusts the output to compensate for the changes. So somewhere along that continuum, I can usually find the setting I want in a couple seconds. 

So what do you think is easier to manage? Having 40 one knob plugins? Or having one plugin with 40 knobs and presets to select?

When speed is of the essence, definitely 40 of my one-knob plug-ins. They all show up in their own folder in the browser. Drag in, turn knob, done. In the example of the compressor, there's essentially a new preset every 10 degrees or so of knob rotation. Imagine being able to scroll through presets and have them load instantly as soon as they appear instead of selecting, deciding, clicking something else, tweaking a control if it's not quite there, etc. Even better, unlike regular preset selection the "presets" morph seamlessly from one "preset" to another, so you can get "in between the presets" without having to do any programming.
 
Same with my ADT one-knob control. You can think of it as a continuum of instantly-loaded presets. I also have a vocal reverb that's again, basically a collection of presets you sweep through with a single knob...very convenient.
 
The only reason I have 40 of them is because I did a couple and found them so useful I did more. However, many of them are more prosaic and are just for convenience...for example I have a humbucker-to-single-coil converter effect. That could just as easily be a preset with an EQ, however, the one knob rotates through "more of a single coil sound" to "less of a single coil sound" and again, it's controlling multiple parameters simultaneously which would require a considerable amount of tweaking to a standard preset.
 
I have to admit that sometimes I don't replace the single-knob effect with something more sophisticated because it already has the sound I want. Maybe I could obsess over finding something "better," but it's like the story I tell of the VI with 600 kick drums...if you hit kick #23 and it sounds good, you don't really have to keep going through the other 577 kicks to see if you can find something  better.