What are you still doing with the mouse?

[Drew Mazurek]

I really like my D Command but for some things the mouse seems to just be quicker/better. Assigning inserts seems to be one of those things. I will try to force myself to only use the desk for a while to see if it's just that I need to get better at it, but it seems no matter how much I practice, mousing is easier/faster. Making my most used stuff Favorites does help some with them at the top of the list though.

What would you add to this list?

[teacherman]

Good Post.

I'm good with just about everything on both the D-Control and D-Command except for the FADERS. I really don't trust the fader once I make a fader-move. I'm never really sure where the fader will end up once I take my finger off the fader. I have to many many bad experience with "fighting Faders" and faders snapping to some odd position.

Therefore, Back to your Question: "what am I doing with the mouse?".....my $49.99 mouse assists in 95% of my mixes.

[Drew Mazurek]

Well, that sucks and it certainly shouldn't be that way. If mine were like that, I'd send it back!!!!

[Mikey MTC]

Same here. If I couldn't trust the faders I may as well not even use the console!

They certainly seem to need a recal more often than I would have thought. Often two faders that are supposed to be at 0 seem too far apart for my liking, but a recal always sorts this out.

[GlennR01]

Perhaps we'll soon get a fader touch sensitivity preference? Or a human electro-conductivity preference? Body-fat mass resistance index preference?

I still mouse my plug-in inserts. So there!

[filmixer]

All the mixers I know using Icon including myself still do our initial channel routing setups using the screen. It's easier to get a full overview of what's happening. With a 23" Cinema display, you can see about 48 channels at a time in narrow fader view and it's easy to scroll back and forth through the session to see everything.