Cool… I got my 10 Alps motorfaders today. This was my first experience with Alltronics. but I’d order from them again. I was getting nervous since UPS took 9 days to get them here, but they actually shipped within 24 hours after I’d ordered and a woman on the phone actually emailed me with a tracking number like she promised she would.
I’ve never seen a motorfader with a touch sensor. Any thoughts or tips on what would be required to get these faders working with touch sensors?
there’s no touch sensor… 
butmaybe there is a way to make this work… don’t know… ???
I don’t know anything about motorfaders or touch sencors, but i’ve watched all those topics go by on the forum and this question has been posted more than once. Here’s just an idea…
Aren’t there any motorfaders of which the point where you attach the fader knob is connected to some extra pin? If so, wouldn’t it be possible to buy/make a knob that leads/conducts elektricity/signals? Because if you would touch the knob (without moving the fader ofcourse) you would for instance shorten the pin of the knob to ground which causes a certain action or function to execute.
Basta73, Ian, and myself have spent hours pondering the possibility of adding touch sensitivity to the panasonic MF’s available from allelectronics, even pulling them apart, I have tried to solder to the spare (3rd)track inside, but solder will not take to it, and there isn’t a wiper contact that touches this track anyway…
don’t pull your faders apart like we did, it is very difficult to put them back together without damaging them! and don’t bend the pins either!
I think the closest you’ll get to touch sensitivity with these MF’s will be with extra buttons near the faders, that you press at the same time as you move a fader… though I hope I’m wrong! (this is what I did on my box)
I agree with you steven! very hard to add this… but so easy to do by the manufacturer, that I don’t understand why all fader are not touch sensor? lol
By the way, they were cheap, but with no touch sensor they are just like panasonic one, a little cheaper, but… SO MUCH HARD TO ORDER THEM !lol
now time to finish this LC 
hey Pilo, is this what u meant?
Later
Dan
How does a real touch sensor work anyway? Is the touch sensor pin just a connection to the knob/button and the circuitry to detect touch is done by the user? Or does the fader actually have some extra circuitry in it? Or is it just a very sensitive push switch?
touch sensor is another track on which the knob have a contact. The circuit for handle it (to stop the motor) is done here via MIOS, or via host application (on the computer). But there is nothing more on the fader… that’s why I don’t understand why there’s touch sensor fader, and some without…???