Euphonix MC Control or MC Transport?

[piano]

In practice --- in real use, is the MC Control much more useful than the MC Transport?

For example, do home recording guys find themselves using all the bell and whistles of the MC Controll or would do use the most basic items most of the time that you would find on the MC Transport?

[farhadkd]

Ditch both and get a MC Mix.

[dpianomn]

Originally Posted by farhadkd

Ditch both and get a MC Mix.

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The MC Mix is a winner. I thought about adding a Transport, but keyboard commands for those functions are just as fast.

[DonJoe]

Originally Posted by dpianomn

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The MC Mix is a winner. I thought about adding a Transport, but keyboard commands for those functions are just as fast.

100% correct. MC Transport is to expensive and you can also control your transport functions via MC Mix like Record and Play for example.....

[piano]

That is a surprising answer! MC MIX.

[piano]

Guys,

So you do not really use the touch screen of the MC Control too much?

[dpianomn]

I don't own the MC Control, but I decided I'd rather have more faders than a touch screen. I'll add 2 more MC Mix before I buy an MC Control.

[piano]

Awesome answers guys!

For those that DO have the MC Control - do you use the touchscreen short cuts much?

[Jack Pettit]

I have an MC Mix, Mc Control and MC Transport

The Control has very deep intergration with Logic (what I use) and other programs. almost every button is programable and that is the upside.
The downside (for me) is the screen type is pretty small, it has only eight faders that don't have a screen above them like on the Mix, and the jog wheel sucks.

I bought the Transport, it has a bunch of programable buttons and a very nice jog wheel. If I can program the functions I use the most into the Transport I will dump the Control and get another Mix.

The jog wheel is very nice and that's a big deal for me.
The keypad locator is cool, I think it's going to work out for me.
Tomorrow I'll program some buttons.

[piano]

Thanks guys!

If you can only get one --- Mix or Transport?

[dpianomn]

Originally Posted by piano

Thanks guys!

If you can only get one --- Mix or Transport?

Mix! It has faders...

[Denis Goekdag]

Originally Posted by piano

Awesome answers guys!

For those that DO have the MC Control - do you use the touchscreen short cuts much?

Nearly never because a) I don't like the way the screen responds (feels slow....) and b) because if the Control sits behind the mac keyboard (which in turn sits behind my Wacom tablet) the screen is just slightly too far away to be convenient ( I really don'T want to move my hand that far away from the modifier keys shift/alt/ctrl/apple to be precise). I use a Belkin Nostromo n52 games controller to the left of the Mac keyboard for keycommands instead , which is about 50 bucks and really does everything I need in terms of programmable keys.

I *do* use the screen to mute tracks, or solo them. At least occasionally.

My favourite MC Control feature is the control room level knob, which i have locked to the monitor control of the MIO console (metric halo driver software), so I can adjust the level of my monitors, or mute them, from the MC.

[Funkasizer]

I had a Mix and a Control, sold both. The Control's touchscreen has a very narrow view angle, so if it is not sitting exactly in front of you, it gets very difficult to see anything on the screen. I also got confused all the time because the top half of the screen is touchscreen, but the bottom half is not (it just visualizes what the knobs below the touchscreen are programmed for, but I just kept on pressing on those icons, to no avail).

Of the two, I think the Mix was the most useful one because of the extra faders and easy to read OLED display, whatever the view angle.

Cheers,

Jack

[piano]

Any more advice?

[Jonathanvl]

I'm planning on going for the MC Transport in combination with a Frontier Alphatrack or something similar.

I work in a musicstore and had the opportunity to fool around with the mc transport a lot, and i like the big sturdy jogwheel a lot, much better than what you find on the mc control.

The touchscreen on the MC Control is a nice gimmick, but i think it's pretty hard to read the screen, and the viewing angle isn't perfect at all.

And the MC mix, well..it's just too expensive for what it is in my opinion, time for Tascam to make a new US2400-series or something like that..

[audiobob]

I actually have a Control and Mix for sale. I'm selling only because I've moved into a new studio and decided to go with a C|24 to make a better impression with clients. Only used these units for 4 months and they are in perfect condition.

Working from home wit PT-HD I was very happy with the Mix and used it mainly for riding faders for automation. It worked well and was solid.

The Control was okay. The buttons are programable so I did have them set up to sort of mock a Pro Control and it wasn't bad. It works much better with Logic and D-Performer from what I understand. If I were to do it over again I'd just buy the Mix.

PM me if you're interested.

[Fidelis]

Question is : What software do you use? If you use Pro tools (as I do) I would go for MC Mix. It's working great here to control faders and some plugins (PT HD). I just order a second one to have 16 faders. The mc control must be better for Logic, cubase, etc.. cause in PT, with HUI mode and the 8-bank fader thing, it's really bad...

Never tried the transport.

Good luck!

[cynics1207]

get MC mix and nocturn. more fun

[piano]

I run Logic guys.

Looks like a Mix and a Control are the way to go.

But out of the two which is more useful? Which should I get first?

[mahasandi]

mc mix. I love mine.
In the end having faders and pan knobs transport etc. are far more pragmatic
then some little screen; the point of controllers is to get out of the screen a bit!
with logic these things are so integrated very nice.