I am also interested. I wonder how people work without motorized faders.   Is it easy to do? The price of the Nano ctl is nice but the bfc2000 has the motorized faders...

The VS-100 is excellent and relatively small, about the same footprint as a JV1010 synth. No problems at all so far with X2a. I also use the V-Control Pro app on an iPad for remote control well away from the desk area and this works nicely as well.

Rich

Whistlekiller


The VS-100 is excellent and relatively small, about the same footprint as a JV1010 synth. No problems at all so far with X2a. I also use the V-Control Pro app on an iPad for remote control well away from the desk area and this works nicely as well.

Rich

Rich,


Thanks for the recommendation.  I forgot about the VS-100.
I don't really need the audio interface, though.  
Are you using Windows 7 64 bit?


Thanks,
Jonathan

bandso


I post this about every time I log on so sorry if you've read this before, but the korg nanokontrol is cheap and it works great. 8 faders pan/mute/arm/record

Thanks for the recommendation. When I did some googling on the Nanocontrol, it seemed as if people were saying that the product is hard to set up, since it does not support the Mackie protocol.


Was it difficult for you to set up?
What functions do you have working?

Thanks,
Jonathan

This excellent instructional post for the nanokontrol was posted fere on the forum a few days ago. This is more or less how I got my 3 working together.

http://www.untidymusic.co...-up-nanokontrol-sonar/

I have all the functions working on 3 of them controlling 24 tracks.
If I would have used the instructional link above the setup would have been a snap, but I figured it out by trial and error.

the only thing I did different was setting up the transport buttons (instructions near the bottom of the instructional post). I didn't go to the ACT learn screen. I stayed on the cakewalk generic surface page. there are global controls on the bottom of the page (play, stop, forward..etc) that I mapped the same way. (basically select the "play" button on the controller page, move a slider on the controller, press the learn button) So there is no need to move off of this one configuration page to set the entire controller up.

I don't know if you've looked at any of the iPad based DAW controllers, but there are some nice options available. I use the iPad for softsynth control and the apps were easy to set-up and they work very well.