Dream Machine

I've owned a number of mixers that I've used for combination of audio post production, live gigs and album recording including the predecessors the Yamaha 02R and Yamaha 01V96 with mlan. When Yamaha abandoned mlan I was so mad I switched to the new Presonus mixer and was quite disappointed with the onboard fx. Meanwhile Yamaha came out with the 01V96i with an even better chipset and built in premium eq and fx, not to mention 16 channels of digital i/o via usb that worked flawlessly. Studio manager software also installed easily and was immediately recognized by my mac running Lion and I'm a happy camper. This is a very solid, musical sounding box with huge bang for the buck which IMHO eclipses everything else in its class.

Awsome Mixer

Itz a Awseome mixer i glad to see Usb 16I/O Mixer
My experience of this hardware is so good and i refered this mixer to a recording studio special

Nice blend of live vs. DAW support

Very happy with the purchase and its value.

Only a couple of items would have made it even better:
upgrade display screen, color & higher res.
scribble strip displays above each track (linkage to DAW tracks)
more encoders for DAW/plug-in support
better track level meter display (live support)
dedicated DAW transport controls vs. 8 user defined keys (I want both)