1.Some controllers don't work that well with PT according to what I've read in Electronic Musician. What you are personally able to do with it may depend on your programming and code writing chops...
2. Baby HUI is set for delivery in September and will work with both flavors of PT, according to the Mackie 'site, with an MSRP of $799, or as we like to call it, "More like it".
See it
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