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Usually ships in 1-2 business days | | | The FaderPort puts the feel, vibe, and efficiency back into music recording and production. No more clicking through menus and drawing automation edits with a mouse. The easy-to-use FaderPort delivers complete transport control for fast and efficien... | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 12.5 inches | | Product Width: | 7.5 inches | | Product Height: | 4.0 inches | | Product Weight: | 6.0 pounds | | Package Length: | 12.6 inches | | Package Width: | 7.7 inches | | Package Height: | 4.3 inches | | Package Weight: | 3.05 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 3 reviews |
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| | Features | Touch-sensitive 100mm longthrow motorized faderDual-servo drivebelt motor motor design for fast, precise operationFull transport control including track solo and track armCompatible with virtually all Mac and Windows recording softwareGreatly increases efficiency and enjoyment of "in-the-box" mixing
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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 A must have for small desktop studios Oct 23, 2008
Buying the Faderport has probably been one of the greatest improvements to my ProTools workflow. I have a fairly simple PTLE set-up and have been doing everything with a mouse for about the last year and a half. Adding the FaderPort has improved the efficiency of my recording and mixing exponentially.
I primarily bought this unit for the fader and this has certainly improved my mixing control, but some of the other controls are what have really helped me. Having dedicated hardware for transport control is awesome. I love being able to arm a track, set record, and hit play all in one physical location. Also, the undo button is great when perfoming multiple takes on a difficult part. Lastly, having buttons for switching between the mix and edit windows is very, very useful.
The interface is very intuitive and well built. I had a few issues getting it to be recognized properly (turns out to be a PC/Windows OS issue), but once I got it installed I was able to start using it effectively with pretty much no instruction.
If you are still mixing and controlling PT with a mouse, I strongly recommend that you look into one of these great units.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Faderport vs Alphatrack Aug 12, 2008
If you're looking to get away from mixing with your mouse and are looking to spend as little as possible... there are two big choices. PreSonus Faderport ($150) and Frontier Design Alphatrack ($200).
Faderport - PROS: PreSonus put most of their money into the fader... it's an alps fader used in many higher end consoles.
Nothing fancy. It is intuitive and to the point, but still has what I want and need... a good fader and transport control.
Easy to install.
Small.
CONS: Wall-wart. It is bus powered, but you need the AC adapter for fader automation.
You can only automate volume and pan. (protools user's! If you have a track selected with the faderport with pan automation, protools will lock to the pan control of the faderport and will not play back the written automation until you switch to another track. This is a known issue that PreSonus says they are working on for an upcoming firmware update.)
Alphatrack - PROS: Controls; volume, pan, EQ, plugins, and automation.
3 encoders instead of 1.
Jog and shuttle strip... (this is really cool.)
Bus powered.
LED screen with track/eq/plugin info.
CONS: NOT Intuitive... It took the guy at G***Center over 30 minutes just to get it to do anything. And after another 30 minutes could only get the fader, pan and transport controls to work. (I never did get to automate any plugins with it.)
The fader was sluggish and when it played back the automation in kinda shook and was loud. (check out youtube.com "faderport vs alphatrack" and see a side by side comparison.)
The LED screen was hard to navigate through and the user programmable controls (which only work with native software, not HUI emulation) are labeled F1- F8 which may take a while to remember.
Slightly bigger then faderport.
OVERALL: I went with the faderport. While there are a few quirky things I've had to deal with (in protools, so far it has worked great with sonar) it's still straight forward, serves its purpose and does what I need it to do. It gives me the ability to feel and touch a mix. The transport controls alone make it a great asset, not having to reach for the mouse every time I want to arm, mute, solo or record a track. As for the alphatrack, the fader on it alone was enough for me to steer clear. But, the fact that it was a fight to get it to work at all (and never saw it fully functioning) put me over the edge... I fight with enough stuff to keep everything running.
4 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Neat controller for Logic or ProTools Dec 24, 2007
This 5"x7" controller sits neatly next to my laptop and gives a more tactile control of volume, panning, transport, etc. than mouse or shortcut keys. Motorized fader and lights are cool.
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