So I can’t work with just the control surface in a session, but always have a combo of UI w/ trackball and control surface. Because I’m working on large film mixes usually, it’s unrealistic to have everything I need, including many different plugins mapped to the control surface. That said, I’ve found touch screen apps somewhat pointless. So it’s logical and to some degree an advantage. I think the strategy behind it is, that it’s easier for them to innovate and update software rather than design new hardware. And Avid has been aggressively promoting that software even on their bigger consoles. I originally worked in ProTools and had an Artist Mix and a Avid Dock with an iPad Mini running the Avid control software. I’ve given them feedback on what is missing in the plugin mixer to make it usable for film mixes. You can do that without hardware controller. But you are limited to channel strip and faders, which may not be enough. You can easily have 50+ tracks in view across your screen, as on a big hardware console. Though it’s more tuned to wards music mixes than film mixes.

Not as ergonomic as the Avid Dock transport section, but also doesn’t take as much desk space up.įor large sessions (100+ tracks), the SSL 360 plugin mixer is potentially interesting.

With a recent update of the SS元60 software they double-tasked some of the buttons for transport functions. That system also declutters the UI.Īnd it’s pretty easy to program custom buttons along the top (you have 5 banks of 8 for different functions, such as punch-preview, etc. That limits them to 2-3 pages max and most likely the track I need is on the current page. So if I do DX edit or mix, I hit the 2 button, and all non-DX tracks get hidden. These configs are pre-mapped on the UF8 to the 8 send/plugin buttons. I have a config for DX, Amb, Foley, MX, VCA, Bus. In the meantime, I make use of the track configurations presets in the Nuendo mixer and keep in sync with edit window. They’ve received that feedback before, so hopefully there is a fix for it at some point. When you have hundreds of tracks and all you want to do is locate the fader quickly this has to work I did a demo with the UF8 and not having the console/controller jump to the selected channel when selected on Nuendo was a deal breaker.

Nuendo vs cubase sound quality