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Mackie Control Universal is much more than a way to balance levels. It gives you realtime control over your music in ways your keyboard and mouse never will. With 100mm Penny+ Giles optical touch faders, a full sized backlit LCD, V-Pots for fast tweaking of effects and plug-ins, a full implementation of Logic Control, and shortcut navigation and editing for all major software including Pro Tools, this is the first and last desktop controller you will ever need.

At just one-third of the cost of other professional systems, with expandability via optional Control Extenders, Mackie Control Universal gives you the perfect hands-on surface to make music faster--no matter what software you use.

Features

  • New full implementation of Emagic Logic Control
  • Digidesign Pro Tools control via HUI
  • 100mm Penny + Giles Motorized Touchfaders
  • Multi-function V-Pots for fast control of panning and effects
  • Comprehensive Automation controls
  • Full Meter Display with track names and parameters
  • 7-segment Timecode display
  • Software-specific Lexan overlays
  • Expandable via optional Mackie Control Extenders and C4 module

Specifications

  • width - 17.4"
  • depth - 17.5"
  • height - 3.8"

Mackie Control

Matt Collis
June 16, 2006

Rating: 3/10

Its the most versatile midi desk you can find, unfortunately they have a habit of breaking down. My 4 month old MCU started to experience fader calibration errors during the startup routine, then midi control between fader one and the software became intermittent. Mackie have no UK support of their own, they rely on outsourcing to 2 uk specialists (who shall remain nameless).....my MCU was away for 3 months and came back still broken....the second specialist had it for a further 3 weeks and when it returned it was worse than before with every single fader failing the startup calibration test. It seems to be common knowledge that the P&G faders are prone to failure........I wish I had known this beforehand, I would have bought a Command8 (as a pro tools user) instead......

Mackie Control Review

Tom Crespel
January 5, 2006

Rating: 10/10

I have just purchased this great product and am really looking forward to owning this great machine i have used one in another studio for some time and the workflow and results with this are absolutely flawless. Its user friendly operation and smooth controls make it the perfect controler for any of the supported applications. I use this controller for Cubase sx and am constantly amazed by the speed that i can carry out various tasks and have a finished audio product in double quick time. I reccomend this controller for anyone serious about perfection...

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