whats the diffrence mackie control or M C unive -ACID Product Family

Subject:whats the diffrence mackie control or M C unive Posted by: ozzborn Date:9/29/2009 8:38:29 AM whats the diffrence between mackie control or Mackie Control universal. thanks in advance
Subject:RE: whats the diffrence mackie control or M C unive Reply by: MarkWWW Date:9/29/2009 12:05:13 PM The Mackie Control was Mackie's "own label" version of the Logic Control which Mackie originally produced exclusively for Emagic as a controller for Emagic's Logic DAW. It had the same hardware as the Logic Control, but responded to a different set of control messages. Quite soon after the Mackie Control was released it was replaced by the almost but not quite identical Mackie Control Universal which could operate in three modes - as a Mackie Control, as a Logic Control, and also as a HUI. This was universal in the sense that it would now work with (almost) all DAWs - you would use it in Logic Control mode when working with Logic, in HUI mode when working with ProTools, and in native Mackie Control mode when working with anything else - Vegas, Sonar, Cubase, etc. There probably aren't very many Mackie Controls around these days as they will almost all have been upgraded to a Mackie Control Universal - the upgrade is just a freely downloadable firmware update for the later Mackie Controls, or a cheap hardware update in the case of the very early ones. The Mackie Control and the Mackie Control Universal are now obsolete, having been replaced by the very similar Mackie Control Universal Pro a year or two ago. (The Pro has a different case, different (supposedly better but I'm not so sure) mechanical controls (buttons, faders, jogwheel) and a USB interface.) But as far as the software side of things is concerned, the MCU Pro behaves exactly like the MCU. Mark

The Mackie Control was Mackie's "own label" version of the Logic Control which Mackie originally produced exclusively for Emagic as a controller for Emagic's Logic DAW. It had the same hardware as the Logic Control, but responded to a different set of control messages.

Quite soon after the Mackie Control was released it was replaced by the almost but not quite identical Mackie Control Universal which could operate in three modes - as a Mackie Control, as a Logic Control, and also as a HUI. This was universal in the sense that it would now work with (almost) all DAWs - you would use it in Logic Control mode when working with Logic, in HUI mode when working with ProTools, and in native Mackie Control mode when working with anything else - Vegas, Sonar, Cubase, etc.

There probably aren't very many Mackie Controls around these days as they will almost all have been upgraded to a Mackie Control Universal - the upgrade is just a freely downloadable firmware update for the later Mackie Controls, or a cheap hardware update in the case of the very early ones.

The Mackie Control and the Mackie Control Universal are now obsolete, having been replaced by the very similar Mackie Control Universal Pro a year or two ago. (The Pro has a different case, different (supposedly better but I'm not so sure) mechanical controls (buttons, faders, jogwheel) and a USB interface.) But as far as the software side of things is concerned, the MCU Pro behaves exactly like the MCU.

Mark