Darn, the studio I work for bought an artist control combo :(

[zblip2]

I come in to work and I find on my desk an Artist control and a 8 fader thing.

Now I feal obligated to learn this probaply useless apparatus.

I dont like controle surfaces because they are usually ill designed and dont care about how the user wants to work. For instance, I wanted a "one fader" unit. You click on a track, you move the fader, done deal move on. The thing I hate the most in the whole world is scroling mixer pages to put un focus the track I have in front of me on the computer screen. That, and trying to guess what "QreFg" means on the tiny lead on top of a fader. Come on, can I just frekin click a track and move the fader plz?... The problem with "elaborate" controle surfaces is that they want you to stop doing things you were allready doing perfectly with the mouse and transfer them to there guizmo, therefore justifying the high price of the the feature full gizmo. At the end of the line, you change your work habits, and you didn't gane anything in terms of rapidity. What's the use of executing commands on the gizmo instead of just doing them with the mouse? The answer is money.

No way is this thing going to come close to my 50$ Nostromo in terms of work speed. This is going to be a big waist of time

[jesse p]

You're going to like it. Get back to us in a couple weeks

[groundcontrol]

Stop whining like a wuss and get on the program already!

Nothing like mixing "by feel" (with your *ears* get this!) with your two hands both grabbing a handful of faders. It does'nt get more sensual than this...

BTW, TURN OFF THAT DARN MONITOR ONCE IN A WHILE!
It might change the way you ear your mixes...

In the end you may find out you enjoy it so much you wished for an ICON! :lol:

*I* know I want one to replace my aging ProControl.

Cheers!

[digidesigner]

Originally Posted by groundcontrol

BTW, TURN OFF THAT DARN MONITOR ONCE IN A WHILE!
It might change the way you ear your mixes...

Early Cubase versions had "ears only" function that did turn the monitor blank at a key command. This would be very cool to have in PT as I keep forgetting how easy it is to close your eyes

[groundcontrol]

I have a hot corner that turns off my screens.