Mixing Board Controller??

[bruuen]

edit: ok i made a mistake with my first question...so now...what is your favorite mixing console for midi controllers?

[ssscientist]

Originally Posted by bruuen

For the musician who wants to go ALL software...

You mean ALL software?

Like a mixing board that you wouldn't even need to touch --- it would just read your mind and slide faders accordingly?

Ahem.

There are such things at every price point from the Behringer DDX3216, now down to $600 @ Zzounds to the flying faders of the computerized Midas I saw as FOH mixer tonight at the Auditorium Theater downtown.

You can control the automated faders several ways - by setting up scenes in advance and stepping thru them with button presses all the way up to real time midi control.

[bruuen]

thanks for the reply...

regarding the ALL software, i'm refering to ALL sounds will be made from software applications, so any gear would only be controllers. along time ago, i would have never thought i'd hear myself saying this as i've always been a gear fiend...but the possibilities with software have amazed me, and if a midi controller is 'reliable' it will always be useful, no matter what you're running through it.

[ssscientist]

There are several choices out there as far as reliable midi controllers --- the one I've used for the last 10 years is the Peavey PC1600x - it's got 16 fully programmable faders over 16 fully programmable buttons. It's been indespensible as a 'front panel' for synths with no physical knobs as well as doing virtual mixdowns, which is what you're talking about.

Behringer has some new ones on the market now, and I've tried the rotary one and found it well built - didn't try programming anything on it, so the depth of programmability is something I can't speak to. I understand the automatic faders on the other one make quite a racket, but that might just be an isolated case...

Others on the market include a plastic job from a company called Evolution, a cute little thing with a small but functional 32 mini-faders and a fully funtional jog wheel from JL Cooper and many on the up-market side including the Behringer DDX3216 which is capable of transmitting assignable midi controllers from the faders, the Tascam series, the Mackie HUI and on and on.