Take a look at the Behringer BCF2000 also. Less impact on your pocketbook, with motorized faders. Dave Carlson Sent from my Dell Latitude E6520 using Windows 7, San Francisco Bay Area ----- Original Message ----- From: Manny To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 11:21 Subject: [ddots-l] purchasing control surface Hello, I am looking to buy a control surface. I have the fastrack ultra and everything is working fine. But after bryan's demo at the end of it, I realized that all I really have is a mic connected to my computer via the fastrack. So this weekend I went window shopping and found the m-audio axiom. It is pretty costy but I think it will get my studio goal to where I want to be. I want to have a professional home studio but not industry quality. I want to record just personal stuff, but still want to have semi professional. So if I can get some critique on that control surface or an opinion on another one. The equipment I am using is as follows. The computer is a dell 1445, with core 2 dual. 4 gigs of ram and 430 of hard drive. My interface is the m-audio fastrack ultra. And to trigger my syths I am currently using my Yamaha keyboard. Oh and my mic is the rhode nt1a condenser. Yeneeds a little more work right? Thanks Manny rivasma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx