motorized slide switches?

[midihuh]

Been trying to figure out a way to use slide switches instead of faders, but....

Any recommendations would be appreciated, even if they are cost prohibitive (all my ideas are :P)

[illogik]

hi; i dont think i know what you are talking about; but i hope this is because your giving very little info ;);

what do you mean exactly with a slide switch? stuff like this?

http://www.ittcannon.com/products/products.asp?pid=1026

what kind of application are you designing (what is your box supposed to do, what do you want to do with motorized switches)?

cheers, marcel

[midihuh]

Hello, yes those are slide switches.  I want to make a LC Midi box but I don't need all of the analog values of a fader.  Just something like a 5 position slider switch, but I want to be able to do midi recall of their positions.

A motorized fader would work if they have those with detents.  However, I initially started thinking of other ways to accomplish this a little more cheaply since I don't need faders, just really switches.

Maybe it's clearer if I call it a motorized 5 position selector switch?

What other info. would be helpful?

[drin]

I want to be able to do midi recall of their positions.

I don't understand what you mean by 'MIDI recall'. Can you explain step-by-step what you want to do?

Maybe it's clearer if I call it a motorized 5 position selector switch?

No, not really. Switches aren't motorized.

-drin

[illogik]

you want to be able to select 5 values of a parameter instead of going trough the whole range of the parameter, right? and you want to see which value is selected when you choose a different program/preset?

you can make this with 5 buttons and led indicators but you would probably have to write some code so the leds work the way you want

[stryd_one]

I was thinking of what illogik said with five buttons, or otherwise you could just quantize the values on a fader.