Old 10-16-2009, 09:04 PM   #1
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Default Opinion sought - control surfaces

This will hopefully be a Christmas present to myself.
Which surface is the most useful and compatible with Reaper:
M-Audio ProjectMixIO
Mackie MCU / MCU Pro
Tascam FW-1884
Other? (no 60mm faders please)

What are the unique qualities that make one of them more useful than another- outside of audio I/O?
will any of those work the automation/envelope parameters including write/update modes?
TIA
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Old 10-17-2009, 12:15 AM   #2
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in my world, they all suck. some more than others. 8 faders with bank switching blows big time.
to me, 24 faders is a true "hands on" control surface. tascam was on the right track with the us 2400. naturally, they stopped making it.
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Old 10-17-2009, 02:52 AM   #3
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This will hopefully be a Christmas present to myself.
Which surface is the most useful and compatible with Reaper:
M-Audio ProjectMixIO
Mackie MCU / MCU Pro
Tascam FW-1884
Other? (no 60mm faders please)

What are the unique qualities that make one of them more useful than another- outside of audio I/O?
will any of those work the automation/envelope parameters including write/update modes?
TIA
I'd go with the MCU, potentially with the extender to bank with 16 tracks at once. Klinke has extended the Reaper support via coding its own control surface plugin for it. Great stuff so i heard.

If you also need inputs, maybe a used Roland VS-2480 could be of use, ive written control surface code for it. Check out my thread about it.

Yves
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