By Sam Inglis
Whether you’re after fader control, hands?on EQ and dynamics or a hardware meter, SSL’s UF1 has you covered.
Sooner or later, most DAW users get frustrated with mice. Software mixers still take their design cues mainly from hardware consoles, and it’s natural to want faders and buttons under your hands as well as on screen.
However, fader?based control surfaces can themselves be a source of frustration. The now?ancient MCU and HUI control protocols are bottlenecks, limiting the type and amount of information that can be transmitted between DAW and controller. And although EUCON offers the potential for deeper and richer integration, it’s a proprietary Avid format and can’t be exploited by other controller manufacturers.
The older MIDI?based standards still work fine for basic fader and transport control, along with related tasks like writing automation, navigating through projects with a jog/shuttle wheel and scrubbing audio. But plug?ins are now central to mixing, and it’s pretty hard to create an MCU or HUI surface that can offer effective control over all of the countless different compressors, reverbs, EQs and so on that are on the market.
Read the full review at Sound on Sound https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/solid-state-logic-uf1
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