What are motorized faders for?

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laxutraly

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I tried researching this but couldn't find anything. Why would you want faders to be motorized, and if you have them, what next?
 
Usually you can program consoles with motorized faders to make fader moves at specific times during playback. Say you want to raise a guitar for a solo. You program the system to slide the fader up at a certain rate by a certain amount at a certain time, then back down again. Automation like that is emulated in DAWs using automation lines, a.k.a. rubber bands.
 
and if you have on screen faders, not all monitors support multi-touch so pulling one up and one down at the same time is impossible. Real faders can do this, but if they don't move, you end up with the physical fader at the wrong position when you start playing tracks from somewhere else - if they all jump to the correct place life is easier. Many people now use either fader panels or mixers with moving faders and once you have them, you won't go back to the old ways.
 
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