Hi Herman and all! Taken a look at the Mackie mode on the FW-1884 and you won't want to use it because, all of your function buttons open up various views in Sonar such as F1 for loop explorer. Also, you will loose the ability to use the EQ and aux's. Regards, Phil Muir Accessibility Training Telephone: US (615) 713-2021 UK+44-1747-821-794 Mobile: UK +44-7968-136-246 E-mail: info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL: www.accessibilitytraining.co.uk/