Avid, 003/002 as Control Surface only! Please!
 

Avid,
what would it take to update the drivers or firmware to make the 003 or 002 usable as a control surface only while using a separate interface?
Is this feasible?
Thanks

Re: Avid, 003/002 as Control Surface only! Please!
 

You should spend more time here as there is already a nice long thread about this. Most of us think a firmware update could allow this and many have let Avid know our wishes already:D

Re: Avid, 003/002 as Control Surface only! Please!
 

Avid,
any updates or comments on this issue?
Thanks

Re: Avid, 003/002 as Control Surface only! Please!
 

Avid I'll pay you $500 for this.

Re: Avid, 003/002 as Control Surface only! Please!
 

The work around in the mean time would be to have both the 002/003 and your other interface hooked up. When tracking, launch PT's using the "other" interface and then switch to the 002/003 for editing and mixing.
OR if the other interface has an optical output, you could connect that to the optical in on the 002/003 and then you don't need to close and open your session. You get the best of both worlds.

Re: Avid, 003/002 as Control Surface only! Please!
 

first solution would work, 2nd solution would be limited to 48 khz :rolleyes:

Re: Avid, 003/002 as Control Surface only! Please!
 

Why would you be limited to 48kHz doing that? Is that a limitation of using optical?

Re: Avid, 003/002 as Control Surface only! Please!
 

Yes, being that there is only one port.

Re: Avid, 003/002 as Control Surface only! Please!
 

So if there were two ports going in, it would split the signal to accommodate a higher sample rate?

Re: Avid, 003/002 as Control Surface only! Please!
 

Well actually I think it is not so much the one port but more about whether it supports SMUX which i don't think it does. If it did you could do 96k but only four channels. Do a search for SMUX on the forum and do some reading if you want to know more.