Digi 002 As Control Surface Only. Why Not?

[therecordinghouse]

at least then this thing would be worth SOMETHING. cant use it, cant sell it. its a great surface, but the IO sucks. what is so hard about porting the command 8 driver for the 002?

[Dism]

Originally Posted by therecordinghouse

...cant use it, cant sell it...

...and now you know how Avid feels.

[albee1952]

I feel the same frustration with my 003. Its a great controller, but I want better IO and more inputs.............................waaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaa

[jhamrick]

Why I will never buy an AVID hardware interface ever again...

AVID forcing 002/003 and command 8 users to upgrade. Their solution is an mbox and an artists command surface. AVID will state that you can expand the I/O of your 003 by using ADAT but you are limited to 8 channels @ 48K.

What I as a customer want:

Allow the 002/003 to be used as a control suface so that I can choose any interface I want to record with at any sample rate.

-AND/OR-

Allow the 002/003 to be used as an aggregate in PT9/10 so that I can use any interface I want to record with at any sample rate while still being able to use my 003 control surface.

I'm not angry with AVID or the decisions they are making moving their company forward, I am actually very happy that they removed their Interface dependency starting in PT 9. As a small project studio customer I now have more options available to me while still being able to use PT 9. These benefits do outweigh my future loss of a boat anchor AKA 003.

But still I've lost trust with the company and do not wish to purchase anymore future boat anchors....

[Craig F]

both are undo-able do to the baked in communications protocols used in the 002/003 that were based in the TDM protocols

[jhamrick]

So I will also not be buying any undo-able do to the baked in communications protocol future boat anchors either

[Dism]

Originally Posted by jhamrick

Why I will never buy an AVID hardware interface ever again...

AVID forcing 002/003 and command 8 users to upgrade. Their solution is an mbox and an artists command surface. AVID will state that you can expand the I/O of your 003 by using ADAT but you are limited to 8 channels @ 48K.

What I as a customer want:

Allow the 002/003 to be used as a control suface so that I can choose any interface I want to record with at any sample rate.

-AND/OR-

Allow the 002/003 to be used as an aggregate in PT9/10 so that I can use any interface I want to record with at any sample rate while still being able to use my 003 control surface.

But you can't be a consumer of a product that has been discontinued.

How is it at all in Avid's interest to change the way an interface works if they can't make any money from it?

I would go out TOMORROW and buy an 002 or 003 console if they suddently could work as an aggregate device or standalone control surface... but how does that profit for Avid in any way? Neither interface will be compatible with PT11, and Avid already has control surfaces to sell.

Avid needs to put out a successor to the 003 like, yesterday, but there's a whole lot less profit in putting extra resources towards products they don't make anymore, especially in the wake of a restructuring.

[CassidyMyers]

I know I'm super late in this, but I just recently purchased the outdated Digi 002 in hopes of having it as a control surface. After experiencing the same frustration, I've stumbled upon a way that it is actually working as a control surface for me.

As my primary interface, I'm using the Scarlett 18i20.

After opening Protools, I set my Digi 002 as my playback device. Then, I changed my playback engine to my Scarlett device.

My 18i20 is still functioning as my primary interface at this point, and my 002 is functioning as a control surface.

[fabcleao]

I have an AVID 192 interface using a pro tools 10HD on a windows 7 , is it possible to use a digi 002 (mixer) only as a control surface?