What frost me is their description in the Users Guide of "Think of it as today's CR1604... but digital and unplugged.
Yeah, that was a bit of a stretch, but hopefully also a goal that they believe they can reach with future upgrades.
The DL doesn't come close to the CR on routing flexibility and never will.
As long as they havent run out of DSP processing bandwidth, I dont see why they couldnt get pretty close. Obviously not as much I/O, but the better their processing is, the less I/O you need.
Their effects are under fire
I never understood the complaints about the effects. Maybe because I've been using the same pair of Quadreverbs for the past 20 years. I'm a simple man with simple needs.
so what does this leave? Walking around and looking cool with an iPad!
cmon! you gotta admit that's worth something! I dont know about you, but I'm not turning many heads on account of my good looks. Not having to scout out a good spot for the desk and roll out a snake is huge! Being able to sell off most of my outboard gear and nearly pay for this thing is almost like getting a free mixer. I'm not saying that Mackie doesnt still have quite a bit of work to do - but the glass looks a lot more than half full to me.