Lol bigger house indeed. I spent a few years on a mackie D8B which and motu 2408 and I loved mixing on the mixing surface. It's built in Dsp sounded great, barely have to crack the manual. But over the years they and the others became unreliable. I long for the day where the daw and control surface are that well integrated ! The tablet control is going to aid that.
Mackie used to be reliable initially , but they either sold the company or switched to overseas manufacturing in the mid 90's(?) and that went out the window. I think around the VLZ days and maybe a bit before is when the switch happened.
itb isn't all that bad, just not quite as forgiving or tactile yet. IMHO it's about knowing all itb isn't equal. I'm very carefully selecting a couple choice plug-insand vsti's for use in the new system. Not many, but good ones. I recently grabbed the waves Renaissance eq and comp and vocal channel for $53, along w a couple others in the bundle. I have always like those, and I've used just about every waves offering. They're forgiving and simple, with a non deteriorting quality to them. They happen to be probably the most widely used waves plug-insamong comercial engineers (I read a lot, and see a lot of screenshots Ect). That and I've got fab filters package on the list. That takes care of my precision eq, multi band compression, and a coul,e others. Kinda the "ooo la la" plug-insof the bunch.
@audiokid and
@pcrecord both use them I belive.
Man, I've used probably over a thousand plug-insover the years, and I've learned they don't all do the same thing and a few good ones go along way vs a ton of others.
When I picked my interface had to choose between channel count and quality, and I chose the channel count, which came in handy for what i was doing. Now my flow has changed.
I think w the software vsti it's too easy to get caught up with amassing stuff, especially cuz it doesn't take up physical room in the music space. its only once in a while a program, patch or pluggin sounds exceptional, I try to note the ones that do.
