Handy little unit! 
by Keith Knight from D/FW TX, September 2008
Music Background:  Metal

This is a very handy little unit. I purchased it mainly for the transport section to do on the fly quick punches with ProTools. It is spot on for that. Buttons are a little small but work great (they do light up, which is very nice). The pan and fader are a little sloppy, but once they locked into the track they work fine.
When you switch from track to track, you would think the fader would move to match it's on screen location. If you move the fader or pan when on the selected track, it will move the on screen to the location of the FaderPort. The rest of the buttons MUTE, SOLO, RECORD, READ, WRITE, TOUCH, OFF, LOOP, ect. work perfectly with ProTools. The only other button I wish it had was Pre roll on and off would have been great. All in all it’s a good little unit with a very small foot print.

  Presonus Faderport review 
by Bob Cates Stayin warm in Florida from Largo Florida, January 2008
Music Background:  sound engineer, musician

Read up on this item an decided to give it a try. This being my first presonus component. The drivers that come with it just do not work on some daw platforms. Mine being cubase studio 4.1. Just had some very weird reactions. At any rate the unit is very sturdy and the slider is smooth and all buttons solidly built. Contacted presonus about the problem, after a little prying I got them to send me a v1.2 beta driver for my cubase system. Everything works as it should after the update. I'm told when cubase did thier update, they changed some coding that presonus had to then rewrite the drivers to correct. At any rate, after that rocky start, this has to be the best thing other than growing another hand! It's very intuitive to use (and I'm left handed) the touch sensitive slider saves tons of mousework on volume control and the other controls are very usefull to speed up the workload. Highly recommend this item, but make shure you don't get frustrated out of the box until you get the correct updated driver.

  A ton of feature in a compact footprint! 
by John Blais from Orlando, Florida, September 2007
Music Background:  Recording Engineer, Live Sound Engineer

Do yourself a favor and get the FaderPort!!! I just can't go back to mixing with a mouse. It greatly improves work flow with buttons for mix, project and transport windows. The motorized touch-sensitive fader works like a dream, this makes editing track automation a joke! You really don't need a bunch of motorized faders at the same time when working on a DAW, 99.9% of the time you will be working on one track at a time (although... yes.... I know... having a bunch of flying faders looks really cool, but its just not that practical). PreSonus has impressed me once again with the FaderPort a solidly built unit that has become an essential part of any project that I work with. After you use it you will wonder how could you possibly work without one!

  Transport control at your fingertips 
by David Carlin from Philadelphia PA, May 2007
Music Background:  Home Studio, Guitarist for Plasma Prophets & Spankin Stanley

Installation was easy. I am using this with a Nuendo system and it works flawlessly. Mixing read / write per channel operation is covered. Transport control works nice. Lights on the buttons are color coded for operation once communication is established.

  Excellent product, highly recommended 
by Tom Jorgensen from Long Beach, CA, May 2007
Music Background:  composer

1. This is an excellent product. The principal selling point for me was the following from PreSonus' website: "FaderPort utilizes the same ultra high-quality Alps fader that is used in professional control surfaces and digital mixing consoles costing 200 times the price including DigiDesign's D-Command. The fader in the FaderPort utilizes a dual servo motorized drive belt system for fast-acting, accurate, and smooth operation. The FaderPort's 100mm long throw fader delivers 1024-step resolution for wrting ultra-fine and accurate fades and adjustments." I can confirm that the fader is very high quality and performs as promised. I only need, and would rather have, one very high quality fader than multiple lesser quality faders.
2. The quality of the product is otherwise very high. It is all metal except for the buttons, which are high quality, durable plastic.
3. I use this device with Cubase, and the controls are evidently specifically designed for use with this program.
4. The buttons that appear white in the photograph are lit with different colors from beneath (green, yellow, red) which is very helpful in a darker studio environment.
5. I cannot recommend this product highly enough.

  Super cool. 
by Jerry Henderson from New Orleans, May 2007
Music Background:  Pro Musician

I bought the faderPort and my friend bought the Alphatrack. We both like the Faderport way better. It's way easier to use, the fader feels better, and it follows my mouse clicks. My buddy is sending back his Alphatrack to get the faderport.

  Ingenious Fader Device at great price point 
by Dave B from Pasadena,CA USA, October 2006
Music Background:  TV Composer/Programmer

Having run out of space in my studio and tiring of doing fader moves with my mouse I luckily ran into the Presonus Faderport. It has all the basic features I need to do quick automation moves in Protools when setting up test mixes to show my television clients. It's also nice that I can also use it with Cubase or Nuendo on the same computer. The single fader has a very smooth throw and the unit looks great. The price is also reasonable.

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