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henever the latest DAW controller thuds onto

the AT test bench the poignant irony of it all

becomes obvious. In years gone by, loads of

knobs and controls were obligatory. Then with the

advent of digital… they disappeared. For most people

they disappeared so completely that we now have a

whole generation far more conversant with a mouse

than a pan pot. And – here’s where the irony starts to

show its face – it was Digidesign leading the charge.

That’s not to say that I’m accusing Digidesign of

any grand, Dr. Evil-style plot to divest us of all our

hardware only to demand we buy it all again off

of them… That’s a wee bit far-fetched. What I’m

suggesting is that what was possible to control with

nothing more than a keyboard and a mouse a few

years ago is increasingly difficult to do so now. A

whole orchestra can now reside and be recorded

within the bounds of your typical computer! No

wonder it all takes so long to do anything. With

a mouse and keyboard you can only adjust one

parameter at a time… period. This goes for mixing,

sampling, recording, Midi and all other functions that

you perform in the computer.

The solution? It’s time to revisit all those knobs and

faders.

Icon-ography

There has been some shifting of tectonic plates at

Planet Digidesign in the last few years. Plenty of

energy has gone into creating more and more comple-

mentary hardware for its flagship product, ProTools. At

the heart of it all is the Icon concept. Icon (first seen in

AT Issue 34) is like ProTools HD’s mothership taking

you wherever you need to go. Up until now there’s

been the D-Control at the helm, ably assisted by the

analogue monitoring unit called the X-Mon, the Mic

preamps, and Avid video options all talking to associ-

ated 192 or 96 I/O. ‘Icon’ describes a scaleable and

potentially massively powerful system.

D-Control is Digidesign’s large-format and pricey

control surface. D-Control was meant to entirely

replace a conventional mixing console when

connected to a ProTools system. In a relatively short

time it’s been making steady inroads into large

film and TV studios and used on some high-profile

productions like the recent Star Wars episode.

That’s all very well, but what about studios like mine

that don’t need (or necessarily have the dosh for) a D-

Control but have racks of ProTools HD hardware? The

market needed a mid-range, yet powerful, mixing and

control companion for ’Tools that still fits into the Icon

paradigm. This is where D-Command can take over

the controls of the mothership. It’s relatively affordable

and rather than hitting a market that’s totally

accustomed to large-format consoles (film mixing),

it’s catering to the much wider but no less deserving

community of ‘mouse-keteers’.

We’re talking about a generation for whom the

use of a control surface for complete access to all

ProTools parameters is a totally foreign concept. And

I would have to count myself in that category. So

it’s a credit to the D-Command that I was able to

Digidesign D-Command

New-generation or old school… either way, the new control surface from

Digidesign seems set to take command. Simon Leadley loses his mouse.

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Whenever the latest DAW controller thuds onto the AT test bench the poignant irony of it all becomes obvious. In years gone by, loads of knobs and con

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Digidesign D-Commandoperate ’Tools with virtually no recourse to the mouse or keyboard shortcuts. This may not sound like a big deal… but I can assure

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comes great organisation, right? Wrong! You have all your tracks laid out the way you want: guitars, guitar FX, guitar subs, vocals, vocal subs… ad in

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surface as it allows more than one person to contribute to a complex mix in a far more efficient manner. To this end, several ProTools systems can be