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I'm less worried about the physical mixer not working anymore - although non-availability of parts is definitively a worry for a product that has been known to develop connection issues.

My worry lies more on the firmware and software side of things - will future versions of Master Fader support the discontinued products? Will there ever be new versions of Master Fader at all? With OS updates regularly messing up older software, I'm not very confident that we will have well-functioning versions of Master Fader for the now-legacy devices going forward.

The statement "new and existing purchases _under warranty_ will be supported" could be an indicator - as soon as warranty is over for the remaining stock, we can't really expect Master Fader support for these devices...

But sure, as long as Master Fader is running on a current device, these mixers remain usable. I'll probably keep my DL32S around for live, but move my studio / rehearsal space mixer from the DL32R to a different platform to get familiar with it. Then I can pull the trigger for a new live mixer whenever I feel the time is right...

 

Gaaah - not a good perspective! Definitely time to move on - the Soundcraft option looks promising...

The Soundcraft UI series (12, 16 and 24) are all controllable via iPad or iPhone or even Android device. In fact, any device that will run a html webpage will be able to control the Ui's

The Behringer X32 and Midas M32 series consoles are fully controllable through the Mix Station App via iPhone and Ipad.

Are there any other digital systems out there that allow adjustments to the main mix from an iPhone versus an iPad? That was one of the most important features to me.