I am going to use this 6 in 6 out SPCO relay iinterfac to receive the faderstarts and send them to LSD2 (With some enhancements such as a red light condition auto switches the headphone feeds to progrsmme output but then goes back to blue once the fader is down).. there is space on my TX monitor which can handle an ANSI terminal stream so I will use that to show the status of the controlsystem;..
first I test the serial connections
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTwvUbC9iEc
see if you can notice what the characters are ( space 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 @ space)
and then ANSI driver on the Arduino
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCDqUj74JQc&index=2&list=UUDEMLBfoQJiE1CvQ 1pKqxKw