![]() I don’t have a physical Dock, but I do have the iPad that would go on it, so as someone who rarely uses knobs anyway it’s perfect for me. So easy to quickly see key information right in front of you. The addition of 2 Amazon Fire tablets as meter bridges is just the icing on the cake. I plan to get a 3rd S1 soon to keep solely as a VCA controller. (especially the ‘remember last spill’ function). When fine tuning I tend to keep my VCA’s locked to the furthest right faders and am constantly expanding and collapsing them, such a great feature. Flip faders for EQ when mixing DX Pan/send when doing FX. The size of the S1 belies its capabilities. I never use the mouse to mix and rarely use clip gain either, and the S1’s are a massive leap in fader quality to me. I already had 3 x Artist mixes but was never really happy with their quality or features so soon replaced them with two S1s. But no - It was actually REALLY easy - I had to choose the one that would fit!!! That basically made a list of two (The Artist Mix or the S1). I have used many, many control surfaces over the years, so when it came to choosing one for my own garden studio you’d think the decision would be kinda difficult because I’d tried them all and would struggle to choose. With all of that in mind, I am considering expanding what I have with a pair of S1’s, or perhaps moving up to an S4. I really want a console's centre section and DAW remote control and I can’t think of one device that does it properly without significant compromises. What I want in front of me is a DAW remote control, something to control headphone sends for talent, a headphone amplifier of my own and ways to control applications via programmable buttons, which is why I have these 4 devices in front of me. Why am I talking about headphone amplifiers here?īecause IMHO a control surface is only part of the solution. In truth I don’t really need both, if the DAD MOM or the MTRX had a headphone amplifier then I’d sell the Grace. The MOM allows me to control headphone level etc for talent and provided overall volume control to the monitors and I use the Grace M905 as the world’s most over-engineered headphone amplifier. I also have a DAD MOM and a Grace M905 remote. It is great but because I lock the MTRX monitor controller to the iPad screen I need to have another app-specific device to do some important macro-based functionality and I use a Stream Deck for that. I use the iPad in the Dock to control 8 sources for hardware monitoring in the Avid MTRX. Now I have an Avid Dock and it is the best compromise between functionality and ease of use I’ve come across with a couple of slight exceptions. Both are excellent devices so nothing I say here is a slight on them- this is just a really difficult area to get right. In the past, I’ve had a Mackie MCU and an SSL Nucleus 2. I’m going to explain this in terms of “what I like to have in front of the keyboard/trackpad/mouse”.
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