Is this site ever going to add a NUAGE section?

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@Fredo

With all due respect, I think you are falling into the trap of wanting a controller that fits your workflow exactly.
You will never find what you need, and even when you find it, you will be “stuck” with it after a while.

Each and every controller/console has it’s pro’s and con’s. Dealbreakers are personally.
You have to reverse your thinking in “how can I change my workflow so I can make best use of the controller”.

Even though Nuage is a very complete controller, and alomost everything can be done with it, I still use mouse and keyboard very often. Simply because it is still faster, more convenient, or because I am stuck in an old habit.
To answer your question. In addition to the 8 channel view presets, I also use the push buttins (for example to recall outputs , FX or VCA’s), and I use the visibility window a lot. You can scroll lightning fast through the folders and simply select what you want/need to see. There is also the “Track list” in the controller window, where you can see/select/mute/rec-arm/solo any track or folder. So, if you combine all these things, you got much more possibilities quickly select anything in your project.

Honestly, even now I sometimes can’t remember the configuration which is stored in preset 8. And I surely wouldn’t remeber what is stored under layout 16. And searching for the correct figuration in a named list seems a hughe waste of time to me.

Just my very personal opinion …

Fredo

Well now I’m REALLY CONFUSED. When I spoke about the horrible design for accomodating the KD/Mouse in Dec. 2014, you said

That is indeed a inconvenience. However, you actually hardly need the keyboard. > The only times you need the Keyboard is for typing words. As said many times before, I’m not a fan of controllers. And at first I had the same reaction as you, but after working more than a year with it, I couldn’t xare less.

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Meanwhile EVERY AD that I’ve ever seen on ANY controller stresses 2 major points:

1. You won’t even NEED a KB/Mouse (well hardly)
2. You can customize it to work the way YOU WORK!
   A lesser important, but often mentioned 3rd point is the proximity of the “ONE TO ONE” relationship enjoyed by users of real desks.

In every video demonstrating any controller, great pains are taken to stay as far away from the KB/Mouse as possible.
BUT in every candid photo of someone working with the controller they’re hands are usually on the mouse.

Now, I get that there are some things we are NOT going to be able to avoid using the KB/Mouse for with a DAW. But the entire benchmark of the pricing structure for these controllers (a goal worth tens of thousands of dollars!!!) seems to be based on how far away from the KB/Mouse we can get AND our ability to conform the device to our way of working , so that “IT BECOMES AN EXTENSION OF US” and thus, bridging that “extension” into the DAW and realizing the “dream aspiration” of “making technology invisible!”

Which parts of all those ads did I misunderstand?