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Description
The Digidesign Pro Control is not just a piece of equipment; it's the heart of your studio, designed to seamlessly integrate with Pro Tools for a comprehensive mixing experience. While it embodies the form of a classic console, its digital capabilities unlock a new realm of control over your music projects. At its core, the Pro Control features the revolutionary DigiFader Technology, providing exceptionally smooth, touch-sensitive motorized faders that elevate your tactile interaction with music production.
Customizable and modular, this system grows with you—add Fader Packs to expand your setup by eight channels at a time, or enhance your capabilities with an Edit Pack for surround sound mixing. The Channel Matrix is another hallmark, offering intuitive navigation with support for up to 128 channel strips, making it a breeze to manage complex sessions.
With Ethernet connectivity ensuring fast and reliable integration with Pro Tools TDM systems, the Pro Control is your gateway to high-level studio operations. Its comprehensive control room monitoring and talkback section, coupled with dedicated editing and transport controls, put you in command of every detail. Whether you're fine-tuning EQ settings or navigating through plug-in parameters, Pro Control offers precision and flexibility at your fingertips.
Key Features:
- Patented DigiFader 100mm touch-sensitive motorized faders
- Tactile access to all Pro Tools editing, mixing, and automation parameters
- Surround mixing and editing capabilities with optional Edit Pack
- Expandable via Fader Expansion Packs to 48 channel strips
- Unique "Channel Matrix" for fast, intuitive system query and navigation
- High-resolution LED displays provide critical system feedback at a glance
- Large, illuminated Solo and Mute buttons
- Illuminated channel Select buttons for I/O assignment, automation, grouping, and other channel-specific edit functions
- Dedicated, illuminated switches for EQ and Dynamics editing/bypass control, insert assignment/bypass, and record ready states
- Connects to Pro Tools TDM systems via high-speed 10Base-T Ethernet
- Cross-platform support for Mac OS and Windows systems
- Optional DigiSnake Kit for easy, organized connectivity
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Digidesign Pro Control Surfaces for Pro Tools DVD 2001
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Users find Pro Control enhances workflow via hands-on controls for faders, panning, and automation.
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Despite dated hardware, Pro Control is valued for hands-on control in mixing, especially for automation and fader adjustments.
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Resale value of Pro Control has improved due to compatibility with various DAWs via MIDI mapping.
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"Three studios hold four Pro Tools rigs; the Amek G2520 console, one of seven prototypes made, is still in Studio A, with Digidesign Pro Controls in Studios B and C." - via Sound On Sound interview with Pharrell's engineer Andrew Coleman
In this YouTube video at 3:03, moby can be seen using Digidesign Pro Control. Moby was using this item to record their song: “Song We Made Together in 30 Minutes”, in 2002-2003 for B-Sides DVD of 18.
"In my main room I'm using a Mac Pro running Mac OS 10.6.7 with Pro Tools HD and a Pro Control desk."
In a feature by Sound On Sound, Simon Phillips is noted for using the Digidesign Pro Control, a DAW controller, in his studio setup.
This article states that Jerry's studio includes "Digidesign Pro Control Console with Edit Pack and 16 faders."
Both the composition and mixing rooms at David's studio are equipped with surround monitoring systems. The mix room is again based around a big Pro Tools system, but this time controlled from a large Pro Control work surface. The removable drives from the mobile system can be slotted in here, whereupon the orchestral recordings plus the synth tracks (saved as audio tracks) can be mixed into five-channel surround plus any discrete tracks that may be needed for break-outs. The recording system can output up to 64 discrete tracks at once.
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