i progressed to the project mix from sound blaster 1080, was blown away by the sound quality,bearing in mind i only had earphones when i set it all up (which was a breeze!!)

the i/o came with ableton live lite,various power adapter cables(i guess to suite different international sockets etc.)It looks so pro like,and gave my little room a real lift.my only gripe would be that they could have added a fake leather or vynal padding along the bottom of the unit,because leaning on my hand, using the jogg wheel for long periods causes numbness!!

so easy to use,you never forget either or loose interest. ive had mine for 3 years nearly,still as good as when i first plugged it in.Still need my p.c mouse on occassion,i couldnt go back to a sound blaster type card again!!!

looks very good!! maybe could do with a more colourful lcd for meter display etc.But for sub 1000 euros already too good :).

well worth the money i payed!! put this way:if someone was going to offer me the money i payed for mine, i'd advise them to go to a store and get their own!! i havent had the need to look a similar items either cheaper or more expensive.

support bang on!! no problems over the near 3 years!!!

ive still got it!!,(say no more!!)

hobbyist

house,old skool hip hop,soul.

I am using a beringe compressor/limiter with a Samsun CO1 Condensor 48V phantom powered mic connected to my daw Sonar 7 Producer edition and Pro-Tools M-Powered. It works wonders in my studio which is located seperately from my home. It responds excellent to my system. It intergrate easily with Reason 4.0 also which is not listed. Midi Works seemingless through it. The play in the XLR's is a little scary but I have no problems with it. I love all of the controls and I am still learning them by heart. If you do not have a good memory of using these Knobs then don't use it. It does not explain everything that it can do. I wouldn't trade it in the world. Only if I could at some more tracts to this product then it would be great. 8 mic inputs are not enough.

I love the way it handles. I wish that it came with all of the XLR cables, and other cables that it can handle. The word clock cables need to be added along with ADAT cables and wires. You have to purchase everything but the power supply. So buy the accessories before going home to hook it up.

It is easy to use once you get it going good. I had to go into the presets and un mute the unbalanced cable plug ins. If you don't then you won't hear anything.

This control surface is constructed strong. I have no problems with it yet. Only had it for about 8 months though.

For the price this is. It is an offer that you can't refuse.

Couldn't tell you. I have not called them yet.

Its great but some people want it to match everything else such as black or woodgrain etc.

Recording Engineer, Active Musician, Artist, Producer

R & B/Gospel/Contemporary/Movie/ all other genre

Same great sound as with Delta 1010's that I have used for a while on my desktop.

getting automated faders of this quuality combined with 8 pre-amps plus the hardware controls for running fast recording workflow is awsome. Time is money and this unit gives all the benefits of saving time on mixdown,mastering etc etc without spending an arm and a leg.

Easiest set-up of any unit I have used recently.Even all the drivers and firmware were up to date. I use it to be able to run Pro-Tools and Sonar on a laptop for total studio portability. Mated with a keyboard controller this makes the lightest most portable full mobile 8 track recording studio with all the power of full PC software compatibility. Have not found anything wrong yet.

The faders may not be the best but they are a pro level quality so I'll knock a point off

All this for 1300$,its a steal

Great support so far from M-Audio.They do whatever they can till thay get you satisfied.

Clean,professional looking gear.

Recording Engineer,producer,active musician

Folk,Country

the Unit sounds great for the price range. the mic pre's are very hot which can make miking a drum kit up a bit sketchy at times but with this many I/O for such a low price you can't really complain

midi control massive I/0 templates for controlling all major DAWs touch selection of channels. Led readouts for everything, zooming. makes DAW work a real hands on experience. only draw backs are that the pre's aren't amazing and the latency I get with it is about 4ms longer at 128 sample rate than my Native instruments KA-6.

pretty much a plug and play afair here. not much learning curve. read the manual and your good to go.

Have had mine for about 3 years now and never had a single issue with it.

amazing value. (though check the used market as u can get em for a crazy bargain)

haven't had much need for it but m-audio has always been hit or miss. and the drivers rarely get any updates

mainly for the touch sensitive faders with LED read out and built in I/O just wish it had more pristine mic pre's and a better I/o interface built in (updated I should say as it's getting a bit long in the tooth)

active producer

hip hop, rock

guitar player for 12 years and recording engineer

rock

The mic pres are decent but for better sound I'd pic up a mic pre.

Comes with everything you need. Automated faders are great.

Awesome for price range

Support is decent. However, EVERY TIME I CALLED I WAITED AT LEAST AN HOUR TO SPEAK TO A REP....RIDICULOUS!

pretty sexy looking

Producer, Engineer, Songwriter/Performer--Tripple Threat..woot woot lol

Hip-Hop, R&B, Electro

Sound comes out pretty good. I don't have an expensive mic or expensive mic pre-amps. But what I do have it sounds great once the mix down is complete and we send it off to get mastered.

the knobs and buttons are efficient, but without labels to me they are just excess knobs and buttons.

It is very easy to use. After an update on the driver it synched up and was ready to go. Unfortunately I am now having problems with plug ins. And we don't have that many. I'll be calling M-Audio VERY soon.

Quality overall is it is a good unit. It turns on when I need it to and it doesn't die when we are doing something important. I have never had any issues till I updated my Mac software. Hey now that I think about it. I might need to update the driver software...:)

Value is overall great deal for the price. looks and feels and sounds above average.

When I called the first time they were great!!

I own it...but I really wish I had a HD system :)

CEO Record Label/Executive Producer

Hip Hop / RnB

I think the sound quality on this unit is awesome. This is a must buy!!

It has very versatile features for most situations. The fact that it can control logic, protools(m-powered, le in HUI mode)Cubase, Sonar, DP ect. makes this a good tool to try different softwares. I wish you could use spif and adat at the same time but you cant. You have to use one or the other

I expected the quality to be sub par because of the price but the quality is excellent. This is a steal.

For what you get it is worth every penny.

support is ok

sexy sexy

Active Musician

Jazz, r&b, Hip-hop, classical