On 7/31/2013 8:51 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
Bingo. Some of the companies doing this sort of thing (and I don't know if
Behringer is in that category) sell multiple products with different feature
sets and sometimes even totally different functions, which mostly differ in
software. Swap out the ROM, and your equalizer turns into a compressor....
I tried for three years to get PreSonus to make a different version of
the StudioLive software that would make it a much more usable studio
console, but they seem to be selling as many as they want as it is. And
honestly, I'm not sure how good an investment in a different software
version would be since the market for studio consoles is small while the
market for live sound consoles is still strong.
They could sell a lot more of them to studios, though, if they were able
to make it work as a DAW control surface. It seems like they have all
the building blocks since there's a bi-directional control application
for it - move a fader on the console and it moves a fader on the
on-screen graphic. Seems like they could use that same data stream to
generate MIDI continuous control messages, or even better, translate
them to HUI, and send that on to the DAW through the same Firewire cable
that sends the digital audio data. But then I"m not the marketing
department, and they're the ones who figure out what to sell.
The live sound people now want motorized faders so they can see where
the faders are audio-wise when they recall a scene instead of using the
present clumsy "zero the fader while you have a chance" system. Putting
in motorized faders would be a big jump in cost, but they could take a
lesson for how faders are zeroed in non-moving-fader automated consoles,
but noooooooo, they like it the way it is.
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