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I think that the limitation with the lack of motorized faders limits its usefulness as a control surface. When you change the focus of the faders some something inside your DAW, suddenly you are faced with the fact that your physical fader position is not synced up with the software position of the fader. This means likely that no changes are made until you write a change on the physical fader... so in order to start working, you have to then physically move the fader, keeping track of its original software position, until they match up. Or... face the possibility of accidentally writing fader changes while working if you accidentally bump something.
I would really like to see an 8x4x2 implementation of this design (with optional rackmount ears please) that costs in the same ballpark as this model with all faders motorized. It could even cost a little bit more. This would be more useful in my mind because then it comes into its own as a true controller for your DAW. As it stand now, I think it is an excellent recording interface, analog board, but with limited controller capabilities due to the lack of motofadification.
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