I'd have considered it more seriously, except that Raven doesn't support my DAW platform
(Samplitude Pro X ). A query to Slate about it last winter did get answered in a timely manner, but the answer was that they had no immediate plans to code Raven for Samplitude.
If that ever does happen, I'll seriously look into it.

They have one at the studio I work out of, but I haven’t used it yet. It seems cool, but I think it’s a bit too early to adopt it. A lot of programs have tablet based apps, including protools (Eucon for iPad, and Samplitude for andriod). I’ve always felt mixing with the faders and knobs on the iPad app for live mixers to be a little shaky and imprecise, and not much more satisfying than a mouse. I’d rather just use arrow key or the scroll ball.

Then there’s the dead pixels, the software updates, I dunno, I just don’t think it’s practical yet. I like touchscreen editing, but for knobs and faders nothing beats the dedicated knobs, or to lesser extent assignable encoders. Touchscreen is just fine for buttons imho. For things like EQ where you have the familliar dots on the graph, touchscreen can be faster than the mouse.

One area that the touchscreen is cool is being able to adjust multiple parameters at once, which can be handy, and isn’t always possible with other control surfaces.

To me the raven isn’t as good as a dedicated hardware fader bank, a knob section, and an app for the tablet to navigate and do some other things I mentioned above.

I don’t seem to see a lot of raven adopters, and I can’t imagine it’s got the longevity a typical fader bank type controller would.

I’d rather digitally controlled analog units than the direction of the raven. Raven is a cool idea, just doesn’t get my interest until it’s developped more. It seems to be somewhat of a novelty or beta imho.

Not a fan of trying to slide potentiality grimy fingers on a screen all the time, for hours at a time. Give me virtual reality manipulation or 3D hologram, then I might be in :).