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I can't actually see an answer to the original question - does anyone know of a supplier for motorised faders at a reasonable cost?

I have a large range of desks (including Fat Frogs, ETC SmartFade and MagicQ with a PC wing) at my disposal that I can use, but as an electronics graduate I have often built small desks and PC control software either for very specific requirements of shows (mostly animatronic props!) or to try and make my job easier.

I have often thought that motorised faders would be useful on a PC wing - having the ability to position the mouse over a group of faders on screen or example and the levels appear on a small set of 6 faders on a wing, then push them to their new levels and it is automatically saved as an edit.

And as for having faders in the first place, they are great for live theatre work - even if only as submasters. Typing 1 thru 24 @ 50 may give you the final output you want but not the control to get there in a nice way!