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Re: Control Surface v. Mouse and Keyboard
It depends on what you are mixing. If you have a deadline and are mixing TV or Film with 100's of tracks being able to balance more than one thing at a time greatly speeds things up.
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I've downloaded the Control App to an iPad and been learning what it does. I'm leaning now toward a combination of it and an Artist Mix to have rotary control of plugin parameters and of course, the faders. Do you know if the Artist mix encoders will work the plugin controls on the Control App?
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Everyone works differently, but if I had a choice between Artist Mix and Dock, I would go with Dock. Big wheel, dedicated Punch Preview, more soft keys, sturdier design, easier to reach knobs... all of that more valuable than 7 faders.
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Horses for courses I guess, and I can see how that's true for you and likely moreso also for post, but on my end that type of feature isn't really 'luxury'. For me, where there is at least great plugin mapping, track sync, great hardware metering, and still control of fader level and 3 auxes, the Softube Console 1 is more useful overall (in a daw that supports it) than my Dock+mix. I can certainly see that not being a good option for post though... |
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Page 14! Okay, yep. That's a lot of parameters. In post I rarely have to go past page 3.
You do need Custom Mapping.
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You can put 8 plugins parameters on the mix, but they wont sync to the control app page you've selected. Only the dock will do that, which makes sense because they work together. To access plugins on the mix you will have to hit the insert button on there, then select the plugin, then page through the parameters (8 at a time). And you can choose to have them on the faders or the knobs via flip. This works independently of what the control app is doing. The dock/control is nice because it works with the control app and shows 4 pages of parameters on the control and you can select which you want to edit with the knobs. Do you use automation preview mode (PT|U only)? Are you doing music or post? You might also check out an old command|8 along with the control app. |
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