Mackie Control C4 - Control for Reason 3.0, Plus Hands-On Control of Other MIDI Gear

**The Press Desk at Gearslutz.com** · 18th July 2006, 07:39 AM

Mackie Control C4 Now Offers Powerful Control for Reason 3.0, Plus Hands-On Control of Classic Hardware Synths and Other MIDI Gear

The most full-featured control surface of its kind, Mackie Control C4 is now even more powerful thanks to full Reason 3.0 support and FREE C4 Commander Software for Mac or PC. With its 32 knobs and four large LCD displays, C4 breathes new life into thousands of plug-ins and virtual instruments, providing real time, hands-on control of up to 32 parameters simultaneously.

New for C4 is full Reason 3.0 support. Developed jointly by the engineers at Mackie and Propellerheads software, this new support turns the C4 into the ultimate hands-on control surface for Reason — letting you create and tweak music in a much faster, more intuitive way.

Also new for the C4 is Commander Software, available as a FREE download. This software further adds to the C4 feature set by letting you control virtually any MIDI device -* keyboards, sound modules, effects processors... you name it. And it lets you do it all right from the sweet spot; no need to leave the mix position to tweak edit menus on that dusty old synth.

Better still, even if you don't own a C4, you can use C4 Commander's "virtual C4" to control external MIDI hardware. We've included a library with over 180 of the most popular MIDI instruments and effects processors just to get you started.

Download C4 Commander software today and blow the dust off that old MIDI gear. Then properly introduce it to your Mac or PC – with C4 Commander.

http://www.mackie.com/products/c4/

KaNeT · 18th July 2006, 10:29 AM

The only news I'm waiting for about the C4 are the Nuendo/Cubase support... Seems to be a dream that will never become true.

Anyway, happy for Reason users...

sigmatibet · 18th July 2006, 02:11 PM

yeah...what did Steinberg do to the Mackies? The war is over...

FalconerHK · 18th July 2006, 03:21 PM

Yamaha owns Steinberg. Yamaha makes digital mixers, which compete with Mackie's digital mixers (feature-wise, anyway - sound is another story

).

C_F_H_13 · 18th July 2006, 09:58 PM

I bought one of these when they first came out...over a year ago. I have never been so dissapointed with a product ever. The big dissapointment was mackie claiming Ableton support was coming soon, only for them to drop it almost 6 months later. Now I have a 1000 dollar controller that doesn't work with PT, Ableton, and is shotty at best with logic.....

I really don't recommend it to anyone. But hey that's just me.

beatbed · 26th October 2006, 09:24 AM

Yeah, I've tried to register on Mackies forum where they have a thread asking if cubase users would buy it, so that I could say "Yes, I'll take one of those if it works for cubase." But to no wail, some moderator needs to approve my presence, and well, I guess they are up to their necks in developing new stuff that will work for some applications.

And not supporting the most used app in music production just sounds crazy to me, if I were a hardware manufacturer that ventured in to software (Tracktion) I would spend my free time making sure the hardware kept compatible (to other software than my own) to an even higher degree then before, as forced consumers are bad consumers.

And I own a MCU and a ReMote 25, and the ReMote experience makes me reluctant to buy another "This thing will automap!" product from Novation. And the C4 would look so lovely besides my MCU! Garrr, if only Cubase wasn't my preferred sequencer.
But it is and I'm sticking with it, so get your gears shifting Mackie!

On another note, I tried my MCU with reason 3 a while back and goddamn!
Is that stuff smooth or what? It even shows the volume, and it jumps to the selected part, and, well wow, that just blew me away, think to have that integration in Cubase, what a dream.

If I were a software developer, if I were.

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18th July 2006, 07:39 AM	#1
The Press Desk at Gearslutz.com News Desk Editor Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: In cyber space Posts: 197	Mackie Control C4 - Control for Reason 3.0, Plus Hands-On Control of Other MIDI Gear Mackie Control C4 Now Offers Powerful Control for Reason 3.0, Plus Hands-On Control of Classic Hardware Synths and Other MIDI Gear The most full-featured control surface of its kind, Mackie Control C4 is now even more powerful thanks to full Reason 3.0 support and FREE C4 Commander Software for Mac or PC. With its 32 knobs and four large LCD displays, C4 breathes new life into thousands of plug-ins and virtual instruments, providing real time, hands-on control of up to 32 parameters simultaneously. New for C4 is full Reason 3.0 support. Developed jointly by the engineers at Mackie and Propellerheads software, this new support turns the C4 into the ultimate hands-on control surface for Reason — letting you create and tweak music in a much faster, more intuitive way. Also new for the C4 is Commander Software, available as a FREE download. This software further adds to the C4 feature set by letting you control virtually any MIDI device -* keyboards, sound modules, effects processors... you name it. And it lets you do it all right from the sweet spot; no need to leave the mix position to tweak edit menus on that dusty old synth. Better still, even if you don't own a C4, you can use C4 Commander's "virtual C4" to control external MIDI hardware. We've included a library with over 180 of the most popular MIDI instruments and effects processors just to get you started. Download C4 Commander software today and blow the dust off that old MIDI gear. Then properly introduce it to your Mac or PC – with C4 Commander. http://www.mackie.com/products/c4/ __________________ Manufacturers / dealers / distributors please contact thepressdesk AT gearslutz.com for guidelines on what you are allowed to post in this forum. Often it can be better to post your OWN press releases than to send them in.

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18th July 2006, 10:29 AM	#2
KaNeT Gear Head Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Bordeaux, FRANCE Posts: 69	The only news I'm waiting for about the C4 are the Nuendo/Cubase support... Seems to be a dream that will never become true. Anyway, happy for Reason users...

18th July 2006, 02:11 PM	#3
sigmatibet Gear maniac Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Milan - Italy Posts: 152	yeah...what did Steinberg do to the Mackies? The war is over...

18th July 2006, 09:58 PM	#5
C_F_H_13 Lives for gear Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 771	I bought one of these when they first came out...over a year ago. I have never been so dissapointed with a product ever. The big dissapointment was mackie claiming Ableton support was coming soon, only for them to drop it almost 6 months later. Now I have a 1000 dollar controller that doesn't work with PT, Ableton, and is shotty at best with logic..... I really don't recommend it to anyone. But hey that's just me.

26th October 2006, 09:24 AM	#6
beatbed Gear Head Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 44	Yeah, I've tried to register on Mackies forum where they have a thread asking if cubase users would buy it, so that I could say "Yes, I'll take one of those if it works for cubase." But to no wail, some moderator needs to approve my presence, and well, I guess they are up to their necks in developing new stuff that will work for some applications. And not supporting the most used app in music production just sounds crazy to me, if I were a hardware manufacturer that ventured in to software (Tracktion) I would spend my free time making sure the hardware kept compatible (to other software than my own) to an even higher degree then before, as forced consumers are bad consumers. And I own a MCU and a ReMote 25, and the ReMote experience makes me reluctant to buy another "This thing will automap!" product from Novation. And the C4 would look so lovely besides my MCU! Garrr, if only Cubase wasn't my preferred sequencer. But it is and I'm sticking with it, so get your gears shifting Mackie! On another note, I tried my MCU with reason 3 a while back and goddamn! Is that stuff smooth or what? It even shows the volume, and it jumps to the selected part, and, well wow, that just blew me away, think to have that integration in Cubase, what a dream. If I were a software developer, if I were.