Possible options for five channel switching application

[Inflexible_Atropos]

I am looking for best possible option to switch between 5 channels on an audio device. I will have 4 “main” channels, and under each “main” channel, I will have 5 “sub” channels. It is for a modification on a “kaoss pad quad”
After some research, I feel I should not go with latching transistors, I saw suggestions for a d-type flip flop being used as a switch on one website. Would this be a good method, and what would be the best way to execute this? If not, what, in your opinion is the best method?
If needed I can post a picture of the unit at hand.

 

[barry]

You can't use a flip-flop to switch audio. And I don't know what a "latching transistor" is but my guess is that that won't switch audio, either. Why not just use an analog multiplexer?

 

[dick_freebird]

If you are talking about switching audio signals
then the latching (whatever) is only the control.
first question might be, what's wrong with a N-pole
rotary mechanical switch? Simple as can be and no
"neediness" (and, a mainstay of audio equipment
for the last century, less the last decades when
controls became digital and analog switch ICs
could be easily addressed).

 

[Inflexible_Atropos]

My apologies, I suppose a latching circuit using transistors would be more proper? Or transistor wired as a latch? I will have to look into the analogue multiplexer, and as for rotary switch, I need it to be able to switch hands free. I need to be able to just step on a button and have it switch. I do not want to use more than four buttons (due to space) do I don’t want to add a bunch of on/off switches.

 

[barry]

It sounds like you need one 4:1 multiplexer and four 5:1 multiplexers. You haven't really defined this very well. First you say you want to switch between 5 channels, and then you describe something that sounds like twenty channels. Maybe you should show us a sketch.

 

[dick_freebird]

Maybe an 8:1 analog mux (might look especially
for audio application related ones, with stuff like
"click and pop suppression") run from a CMOS
counter (4-bit is common). Throw away the MSB
on the counter, wire up inputs on the unused mux
inputs for future uses. A debounced single SPST
momentary switch to bump the count.

A Johnson counter and analog switches is another
approach. Johnson counter could also drive reed
relays.

I have seen mechanical multipole switches that
index from an up/down pushbutton pair, and also
mechanical counter type switches that put out
binary electrical. If the "box" is only going to be
switching N signals to one, you might find the
lack of need for yet another power supply to be
a "design value".