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SidGuatama · 27th July 2008

I agree with you 100%, and if I were intending to use the ZED as a control surface, your points would be a major concern. But like I said, I can physically write the automation with the DAW and then use the channel faders on the ZED as a trim for the envelope as a whole. This exactly how I already work in REAPER. Quite frankly, I don't see how this is much different from any other analog console without motorized faders used for OTB summing and mixing...it just happens that the tape returns can be fed via ADAT or Firewire instead of balanced 1/4" jacks.

Again, I'm looking at this as a comparative option to a Toft ATB-16. So my point of reference might be different. Perhaps, I'm grossly oversimplifying things, but from what I understand, the ZED isn't really a "digital mixer". It's an analog mixer with some nice digital I/O options.

27th July 2008	#60
SidGuatama Gear interested Joined: Jul 2005 Location: STL Posts: 18	I agree with you 100%, and if I were intending to use the ZED as a control surface, your points would be a major concern. But like I said, I can physically write the automation with the DAW and then use the channel faders on the ZED as a trim for the envelope as a whole. This exactly how I already work in REAPER. Quite frankly, I don't see how this is much different from any other analog console without motorized faders used for OTB summing and mixing...it just happens that the tape returns can be fed via ADAT or Firewire instead of balanced 1/4" jacks. Again, I'm looking at this as a comparative option to a Toft ATB-16. So my point of reference might be different. Perhaps, I'm grossly oversimplifying things, but from what I understand, the ZED isn't really a "digital mixer". It's an analog mixer with some nice digital I/O options.