None of these knobs are random.
The ONTOLOGY BUFFER TOGGLE is a button, for one. When pressed in, it will turn off ONTOLOGY BUFFERS, as it says. Pressing it in would desynchronize the two versions of SKAIA. You would press it in again to resynchronize it.
The first dial reflects input sensitivity. You're not quite sure what it makes it more sensitive to, you've messed with everything and it never breaks from that hard line.
The last amplifies the waveform displayed on the screen. Unfortunately, 0 times 10,000 is still 0.