On Sat, March 30, 2013 3:43 am, rosea.grammostola wrote: This has been a great thread. I think if I was using a control box as drawbars, I would want sliders and not worry about jump from changing presets. I would work in one of two modes in that case, hands off with persets and manual control... or throw money at it and use motors :) For most other kinds of settings, rotary encoders make the most sense... though for me cost wise, a touchscreen with midi over wireless is probably what I would do as a notepad seems less expensive than a box with knobs. The sensitivity can be set so that 1" of finger movement can be 10% full range or 100% full range (maybe even on the fly). First touch anywhere on the control would always be accepted as where ever the control already is and so long as your finger is still touching the screen it doesn't matter if the finger leaves the area of the control being tweaked. In my case, I am thinking in terms of a studio remote control. Being able to tweak input levels and start/stop transport and arm/disarm record. Ya the computer is in the same room, but it is in a bad place to be sitting in front of and performing at the same time, a bad place for mic setup and a bad place acoustically for sound pickup. Right now I leave 5-10 seconds of dead space at the beginning of a track to give me time to get from the computer to my performing position and that detracts from my performance. walk over, get guitar, don headset, put myself back in artistic mode, get myself back into speed of the song, etc.