live_deals Posted October 18, 2005 Report Share Posted October 18, 2005 i'm planning on making a controller for DJ purposes and was wondering if there is a difference between a fader and a crossfader on a MIDI controller?obviously there is in a "real" dj-mixer, but when it comes to controllers i don't have to purchase a special crossfader do I? i just put a fader there instead and the software will manage to be set up so that a 0 value is max left and 127 value max right, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rambinator Posted October 19, 2005 Report Share Posted October 19, 2005 YEP!... you could test it with one of the virtual midiboxes and a virtual patchcable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pay_c Posted October 19, 2005 Report Share Posted October 19, 2005 Yes, there is some difference: Normal DJ-crossfaders do have two channels with logarithmic scale (and they react counterwise - as the one channel goes up the other one goes down). Faders for Midiboxes should have linear scale (so the middle position is giving you a perfect 63 - with logarithmic scale it would give you something like a 30 or so) - two channels are also not needed, as you only use one of them.Greetz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
live_deals Posted October 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 cool, thanks. i'll go ahead with my basic linear fader then. aappreciate the help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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