Excellent addition to the studio, easy and quick to understand 
by Kevin from Greenville, NC, March 2008
Music Background:  ongwriter/Musician/Hobbyin' Engineer/All round fun person

I had worries when I bought this due to the 1 person that reviewed this and said it was so-so. He obviously hasn't read the manual. Every problem he has with this is addressed in the manual, though he is correct about the master fader. I love the project mix. It frees me from observiing changes I'm making on the screen to LISTENING to the changes. The manual is quick and easy to read. I learned how to use this in less than 4 hours. If I didn't choose to read the manual, I still would have been able to use this within 15 minutes. User friendly and smart design. It leaves the appropriate operations up to the mouse and the I/O features are amazing. It works with every plug-in I own (Waves/Ozone/Massey). I was very surprised at how much I like it. My friend just got the Digi 003 and this is a comparable product for the price. If you are thinking about it, do it. It works better with Pro-Tools M-powered than my M-Audio 1814. I haven't had one DAE error to date and Pro tools hasn't locked up on me once. Buy this.

  I like it! 
by CRCrecording from usa, January 2008
Music Background:  Playing bass and recording for over 20 yrs.

I've had the M-Audio Project Mix for close to a year now. It works great for tracking and mixing in my Sonar based home studio. Nice readout, nice faders that you can be way more precise with than a mouse.

The master fader works in Sonar. My only gripe is the rewind botton won't work in Sonar or at least mine dos'nt. It would be cool if they made a nice overlay for the contoller, for specific platforms i.e. Pro-tools or Sonar ect... so I would'nt have to remember what some of the buttons do.

But overall I like using the Project Mix. It's definetly well made, sturdy, looks killer and hasn't given me any problems. Load software and drivers and get to recording and mixing.

  So So 
by Don Bono from San Diego, CA, February 2007
Music Background:  artist, Producer, Mix and Mastering Engineer.

When i first saw this in a magazine I instantly fell in love with it. After a year i picked one up. I must say my mixing gets done faster and i really feel like im working in a pro studio. Nothing like touching those faders. However the drawbacks of this unit make me wish Digi or M-audio had done a way better job. Fiirst of all You can't use the master fader in pro tools its controlled by one of the eight faders. Which is big upset for me. The jog wheel could have been used better for at least scrolling. and using plugins is very tiresome when trying to tweak them from the controll surface. Either i haven't read the manuel clearly or it just tell me how to skip between plugin parameters. However I"m still happy with my unit and wouldn't sell ituntil soemthing else better comes along. But for 1200 dollars in my opinion is way to much for the limited features they only allowed in this unit.

Great value.... 
by Anonymous from Las Vegas, NV USA, February 2006

I was planning on getting the Digi002, but saw this. Instead I was able to get this and a Focusrite ISA 428 for the same price as the 002 by itself. Now that's a great value!!! Sure I didn't get as much "Lite" software that I would end up paying to upgrade anyways. Instead I got a more versatile control surface and some far superior preamps. I use this with protools m-powered and Cubase sx 2 with no problems to date. As a control surface alone, it's worth the price, but with the extensive i/o, this has become a real keeper in my studio, and i'm very unforgiving with my toys!

Owner/Engineer/Procuder 
by Lucky K Recording Studio www.luckykstudio.com from Pensacola, Florida, January 2006

After discussing my needs with my sales engineer, Richard Wittington, I purchased my Project Mix from Sweetwater. I needed an easy way to Mix, add some backing vocals and string parts to a new clients Pro-Tools Session that was cut in Westwood Studio's Nashville, Tn. It went very well and was easy to learn set up and use. Not enough time in a day to read manuals. Automation is a great tool to have.

LK

great unit 
by Andrew Denny from Barbados, November 2005

I do mixing and mastering in DP4.6 and Cubase sx3 mac and xp....driver installation was easy.......that said...This unit will speed up your workflow tremendously...build quality is exellent..faders feel great...It;s also an 18 x 14 audio interface, so the price performance ratio is great...the fact that this is the only unit that runs all software including Ptools M powered is a plus and one of my main reasons for purchase. If you are a cubase nuendo user..the control mapping is by far the best thought out for this platform. A control surface is for mixing and controling key areas in your software...I cannot control plugin settings in dp at all....whoever did this mapping did not a) look at any other controllers on the market and see what they can do and b) Look at their own cubase mapping.
making eq adujustments with knobs or flipping the faders to do the same is what it's all about...even Tascam's US428 controls eqs and plugins on both programs....It works with reason and vegas 6 as well...ALL AND ALL...BUY THIS UNIT

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