argggg...control surface?

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ok so i just spent the last 2 hours using the search button..and still havnt come to a conclusion

im intrested in buying a control surface..but dont wanna spend like 2 grand for the mackie or the multimix....

i wanna spend around 300 or less....i know it doesnt seem alot..but im on a low budget...

i only record one track at a time..so i dont need anything extremly big....i would like motorized faders tho..and something where i can program the knobs to diffrent effects so i can do everything physicly..also it would be nice to have ust a record button withotu fiddling with the mouse...

i have a dmp3 and sm7b and buying prolly a delta 44(?)

thanks for the help
 
I hear ya. Control surfaces are massively overpriced.

I want a surface that has 8 motorized/touch sensitive faders, pan knobs, transport controls and dot-matrix electronic strips above each fader telling you what track you're tweaking. This could easily be available for under £400, but no. No-one makes anything like it. How crap. To come close you'd have to buy an extortionately priced Mackie thing for about £800. Not good enough. All they have to make is something that'll send/recieve MIDI, some motorized touch sensitive faders and some small read-outs for track names. Nor would it have to take up half the desk - why are motorized controllers so ridiculously bulky? Just make it with a small profile - 60mm faders, knobs, screens, that's it.
 
If you can live without the flying faders, check out the JL cooper minidesk. Small, but ahs everything u need (faders, jog wheel, transort, dials)
 
If you're not prejudiced against Behringer, I recommend you check out the BCF2000. I have the rotary one - the BCR2000 - and it's buggy if you use it in USB mode but in midi mode it seems to settle down nicely.

Or you could check ebay for my old favorite --- the Peavey PC1600x. I've had mine for at least 8 years and before that I had it's ancestor the PC1600. It doesn't have flying faders, but you can program it to do complex midi strings which most current midi controllers can't handle.
 
yeah man iv been looking at the berhinger..i think imma go with that...asumming it can work with protools..which i think it can (?)..

anything else recommended?
 
Botinok said:
...asumming it can work with protools..
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If you've got the m-powered new version of 'protools' then it will work. If not, forget it.
 
sweet...got the m-powered

i kinda like the moterized sliders so they go to there places right away its dope...so i have another question

lets say i change the levels on the control surface..will it show the changes in the software? and vice versa..if i change in the software will it show up on the hardware? thanks alot guys.

peace
 
Changes made will be reflected in the other product, at least thats how my Mackie MCU works.
 
my BCF works on my MBox and my Motu stuff. DP4.6 and PT6. But I just ordered the Tascam US2400 from Musicians Friend last night $729 - 24-faders, add that to my BCF- 32 flying faders.. cant wait.
 
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