[sdiy] Alternatives to Faders

[Edward King]

This did occur to me since i have a trackball anyway...
but controlling one axis without affecting the other one is fiddly and even 
if you used axis-select buttons to swicth control from X to Y axis, it still 
makes it very difficult to do many of the things that are useful to do on a 
fader bank, such as moving several faders at the same time.
This could be worked around in your solution by having "select" flags for 
each track, running through the tracks selecting ones that you want to group 
together and then adjusting their collective levels...but its complicated 
and time consuming to do something that basic.

At least if you have 16 or 32 bank selectable faders (rotary encoded or 
otherwise) you can group them together and adjust them en-mass as per 
normal.

Having said all that,  your idea is certainly better than a touchscreen in 
my opinion.

EK

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <lhondareyte at altern.org>
To: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 2:03 PM
Subject: RE: [sdiy] Alternatives to Faders


> Hi all,
>
> A solution I thought is to  use a trackball and a LCD DISPLAY:
> the axis of Y simulates the fader and X axis selects the track. The LCD
> display  print the value of the selected fader and the number of the
> track.
> The only problem is that you can operates on one track at a time. This can
> be work-around with a second trackball since we have two hands max ;).
> This solution is less expensive than a touch-screen.
>
> Just a idea..
> 


		
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