a motorised automation for my analog console (a tac matchless). A system like this his VERY VERY expensive to buy.
My console would have 24 motorised fader.
I think everything is done on your site to complete a project like this, my idea was to use the automation of a sequencer like cubase to control by midi the motorised fader on my console.
What do you think of this project, if it’s possible to do it and not to
complex?
I am also evaluating the costs, so do you know the price of a motorised fader? (the motorised fader has to have a audio signal passing through it with a good quality)
I think a alps K motorised fader would be the good choice.
in fact the only thing that holds me to make this project is to find a good motorised fader which is not expensive (max 40$).
I just saw the mouser site, they don’t have the right motorised fader, the one i am searching must have two track (the servo track and the audio track), the fader that you use in your midibox only have a servo track because you don’t need to pass a audio signal through it.
Tell me if you know place where they sell motorised faders
yes of course you need the two tracks, I just couldn’t remember if the mouser one was like that or not.Sorry i do not know where to get such a fader…but they do exist.
I contacted the US rep for Song Huei and found out the MVA02-1101 series motor faders cost 46.50 USD each FOB Taiwan. The catch is the minumum quantity is 1000 units!!
other brands of MF’s that I know of are ‘outboard electronics’ (though not technically a mf, as it uses a solenoid-like coil to move the fader instead of a motor) and dambrin. (I think it is spelt dambrin, but not sure.)
one thing to watch out for is noise from motors getting into your audio tracks.
It would take some code banging and little hardware, but why not use MIOS to control serial audio mixing chips? That way the signal wouldn’t run through the slide pot at all! The $7 Panasonic at All Electronics could be used. For example http://www.analog.com/UploadedFiles/Data_Sheets/309523086317523187ssm2163.pdf describes an eight input, two ouput mixer chip needing only three or four “wires” to control the chip. Or, look at this chip http://icpart.com/sheetfiles/T/ST%20MTDA7465.pdf Just do a google on: digital audio mixer chips
TK has developed the skeleton of something more that simply a MIDI controller. After all, the basics of MIOS are to examine the various states of operator controls and create hex serial messages. If someone can write the code and create the hardware to output I2C or similar serial commands, then expanding MIOS to a wide range of audio controls would be relatively easy.
the prob is also that i need a good quality motor fader, because it’s for a professionnal mixer, so a cheap panasonic fader would not be a good choice.
yes! I saw this article and tey said that the pga2311 sound really good.
I use the pga4311 and they seems to be good (but I didn’t make a lot of test until now), it’s quite easy to use it with mios.
Maybe a cheaper solution. But it has “only” 95db, I mean the you can change the gain betwee +31.5 and -60db or something like that (and mute of course).
sorry… I just woke up when I wrote this post!