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Take Control! 

By Rob Shrock and Brian Smithers

In today's digital audio workstation environment, a monitor, a keyboard, and a mouse are still the primary means of control. But as many desktop musicians have discovered, these are not the best or most intuitive tools for mixing audio. Enter the MIDI control surface....

Inexpensive Control Surfaces 

By Brian Smithers

Those with limited budgets need not suffer the dread mixitis rodentus, the horrible condition caused by excessive mouse-handling while mixing. Indeed,...

High-End Control Surfaces 

By Rob Shrock

Although it's possible to tackle some DAW-based mixing and automation tasks using simple MIDI controllers, that approach has clear limitations. If you...

Top-Notch for Pro Tools 

Larry the O

Although control surfaces like HUI and MotorMix are made to interface nicely with Pro Tools, Digidesign makes its own Pro Tools control surfaces for high-end,...

Radikal SAC-2K Software Assigned Controller Review 

By Brian Smithers

Radikal's SAC-2K occupies a market niche somewhere between generic MIDI fader devices and high-end proprietary control surfaces. When used with a compliant...

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