Digidesign Command 8 Control Surface for Pro Tools

Digidesign Command 8 Control Surface for Pro Tools Review

Digidesign Command 8 Control Surface for Pro Tools Feature

• Total control of Pro Tools at your fingertips
• 8 touch-sensitive, motorized faders
• Compact size, Perfect for smaller studios
• Easy to read LCD display
• Simple USB connection to your PC or Mac

Through a simple USB connection, Command|8's eight bankable channels of touch-sensitive motorized faders, rotary encoders, and LCD displays enable you to control your Pro Tools system with a fully featured, intelligent control surface. As with other Digidesign control surfaces, Command|8 gives you channel strip mixing functionality along with the ability to view and edit plug-in parameters and to automate sends, pans, track volume, and mutes. Transport controls (Play, Record, etc.) are also included, complete with a footswitch jack for QuickPunch and TrackPunch in, further increasing your independence from mouse-and-keyboard-only interaction with your sessions. Command|8 also features a 1-IN/2-OUT (16 channels in/32 channels out) MIDI interface for integrating your MIDI-compatible gear into Pro Tools. Its Standalone MIDI controller mode enables you to use Command|8 with your favorite third-party MIDI applications and devices ? any device or application that accepts MIDI control change messages for level, panning, solo, mute, MIDI Machine Control, and other mappable parameters. For keeping an ear or two on your mixes, Command|8 includes an onboard monitor system featuring acclaimed Focusrite audio performance and quality. It supports a Main Pro Tools Input, External source (a turntable mixer or CD player, for example) and separate speaker and headphone outputs. Along with Pro Tools TDM and LE systems, Command|8 also supports Avid products natively, including Avid M...