I dont understand faders?

[smitch]

Hi,

I am planning to build the new midibox plus...

I want to replace 2 or 3 pots with faders  (the up and down type).

Can somone explain to me how motor faders work? I dont understand the touch sensitive stuff and why they are different to normal pots.

Isnt a motor fader just a pot but vertically, instead of a knob?

Thanks in advance.

[LO]

You probably are after just plain Faders.

Motor faders are motorised faders as in when the fader on your screen increases/decreases in value  the fader on your box follows like on some of the big name consoles

Apart from that they arent any different to normal faders. the touch track allows the fader to disengage when moved by hand.

LO

[smitch]

Thanks,

Motor fader sound kewl, but i dont need 'em. Im trying to keep my box as simple as possible:)

So if i use a 10K Slide pot on my MIDI box 16 in place of another pot, it should be fine.

Will it wire up the same way as a normal pot? How do I determine what wire goes where?

Thanks alot

This really helps:)

[LO]

Yeah they are pretty much the same to wire up, except they sometimes have 4 pins instead of 3, you can just leave one out.

[smitch]

Is there a way in which i can use a 50K Linear Slide fader (pot) instead of a 10k. Will it still work?

The reason im asking is that I can only find 50k faders localy.

Thanks