Could this Mackie be for me?

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A few months back I was asking about some kind of interface to eliminate using a mouse for Ntrack. I've got a C-Port card and breakout box and didn't want something that by-passed the converters with its own electronics, just something with real transport buttons and faders.

I saw the "Mackie Control" in HR magazine and looked it up on the web. A grand is a little steeper than I had hoped, but it looks like a quality piece. I don't have a hardware mixer anymore so this thing might be the ticket.

Anybody know if this unit will play nicely with Ntrack?
 
Forget the mouse. Give the pen/tablet a try.

The best bucks I've ever invested in a pointing device.

The Wacom plays well with ANY app I've thrown its way.

In Win95/Win98/Win98SE/Win XP.

I'm still using the same pen/tablet that I bought for my P-90 way back in the Jurassic period of computing. They said I could purchase new "nibs" for the pen if it ever wore out. I can't speak to that claim as it has yet to wear out....
 
The Mackie Control for N-Track? That's like throwing a honda 4 banger into a ferrari!!! If you're just looknig for a DAW control surface, you don't need to spend a grand.. especially for N-Track. Does N-Track even have controllable features? I went with a Fostex VM200 digital mixer... I get 20 channel motorized faders plus pan and 80 extra faders via the aux send banks plus 5 master faders. Also mute and solo buttons. Everything works via MIDI plus MMC. I don't have audio pass through it when working with the DAW. All of that for $350. It blows the doors off the Tascam US428 and the Event EZ thingie.
 
That's like throwing a honda 4 banger into a ferrari!!!
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...hey, those little Honda 4 bangers are smokin' fast :) (I could get killed for that remark - I'm from Detroit) :D

You're telling me you got a 20 channel digital mixer with motorized faders for $350? What's the catch? I have a C-Port too, and I'd be very interested if you can use it strictly as a control surface.
 
I LOVE Mackie

Remember that Mackie and eMagic developed the "Logic Control" together to be the premier hardware controller ever released. And it looks like they did just that. Then eMagic sold out like the cunts that they are, to Apple by selling their company to Apple and then immediatly discontinuting the PC version of their products... leaving 70,000 users stranded with no hope of an update. And they did all of this after hyping up their new update to Version 5 for months and months. So not only did they strand 70,000 PC users, the milked them for the last $150 for the v.5.0 update and then a month later cut them off. German kraut bastards!!!

So Mackie, who basically developed the Logic Control FOR emagic, decided, "Fuck, we developed this hardware, and these krauts chop off 35% of the people that might have bought it... we'll just release an identical piece of hardware under our name."

Emagic is shitting themselves about it too. I love it!!! GO read about it here...
www.emagic/PieceOfShitRatBastards!!!!.com

I am considering buying stock in Mackie after they gave emagic the finger.

I love you Greg Mackie!!!
 
Seanmorse79 said:

...hey, those little Honda 4 bangers are smokin' fast :) (I could get killed for that remark - I'm from Detroit) :D

You're telling me you got a 20 channel digital mixer with motorized faders for $350? What's the catch? I have a C-Port too, and I'd be very interested if you can use it strictly as a control surface.
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The catch is that they're discontinued and hard to find used. The fact that they're hard to find used atests to their usefulness. There are still a few places that have them new in the $600-700 range. On ebay, when you can find them, they're in the $350-450 range. I bought mine from some obscure classified site. As a digital mixer, they do up to 20bit 44.1k. As a controller surface they just kick ass. I use mine with Nuendo and Sonar. I've played with the Samplitude demo which kicks ass as well.
 
Yes, n-Track supports MIDI faders. How well? I dunno, ask at the fasoft forums. n-Track supports a lot of things that don't work at all :)

Slackmaster 2000
 
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