Digidesign D-Control

In this post I’d like to talk about something that is very close to my heart, and the one thing that keeps me from buying a decent analog board (I could never afford a great one!). Control surfaces are in my opinion essential to the digital audio revolution, and while I started out mixing without them, I would have a hard time getting rid of them entirely today.
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Already time for AES again! Man, time flies. Unfortunately I won’t be attending it this year. The worst part about that isn’t necessarily that I can’t go around molesting the latest gear, but that I’ll miss all the kickass parties I’ve been invited to! Oh well. I’ll of course do my best to cover the news, and hopefully some friendly dude or dudette will supply me with some floor footage as well (if you’re going and is interested, let me know).

In the meantime, here are some of the AES news that have dropped into my mailbox over the last few weeks.
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Here’s a video clip of Dexter in case you haven’t seen it. It’s still somewhat unclear if this will work with Pro Tools or not. Anyway, looks pretty cool. To be honest though, I think physical faders and knobs seem much better… Notice the lag when the guy drags the faders up and down?

JazzMutant intoduces the first multitouch sensor control surface, dedicated to DAW control designed for Cubase, Sonar, LogicPro, Nuendo, and Pyramix.
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