Re: Anyone using the Mackie C4 plugin controller?
It's not hard to pull off a C24 for $5.5k most dealers who have them want to move them.
The MCU like everything else that uses HUI emulation lacks the capability of the original HUI.
I have owned 2 HUI's (in tandem), a MCU + EXT and a C24.
Using the MCU made me realize how much better the HUI was.
Fortunately I had gotten the MCU and EXT pretty cheap and they were an easy sell since they were still 4 months out the box.
The thing that would scare me about the C4 would be the MIDI communication, MCU's and HUI's still do strange things when multipled on PT systems with that emulated MIDI port and the C4 would be along the same lines.
People with similar systems have always gotten varied results using the same MIDI interface.
As for the C8 it always seemed lke an interim product, more like a work in progress than a complete product.
Somewhat like they held the line so it would not affect the 002's feature set.
Still it controls the parameters for plugs pretty good and that's one of the places Mackie thinned down on the MCU compared to the HUI.
If the C4 would have shown up on time it would have taken care of that, but it didn't.
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