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Unofficial Mackie User Forums => DL1608/DL806/DL32R/ProDX Mixers => Topic started by: Keyboard Magic on April 30, 2015, 12:20:40 AM
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Credit to Mackie
For all our complaining (and supportive comments too) about the DL line and MF, you have to give Mackie credit for being involved in this forum. For them, what better place than the “DL1608/DL806/DL32R Mixers Forum” to keep an eye or ear on their products!
For us it’s the benefit of having an “ear” to Mackie with our concerns and suggestions. I am very impressed how fast this particular issue (MF 3.1 Bug Report) was addressed, about a day and how soon it will be rectified. Not too bad in my books.
Thank you BenO and rmcassady Keep up the good Work! :thu: :thu:
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MF 3.1 came out pretty quickly after the release of My Fader 3.x. Anybody notice if My Fader works with Master Fader 3.1? I won't be able to test until Sunday night. (Not critical, just a rehearsal.)
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MF 3.1 came out pretty quickly after the release of My Fader 3.x. Anybody notice if My Fader works with Master Fader 3.1? I won't be able to test until Sunday night. (Not critical, just a rehearsal.)
Yes, I just tested it 5 minutes ago and for me it works perfectly! :)
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Anybody notice if My Fader works with Master Fader 3.1?
Yup it does. As part of My Fader 3, we actually made a change to its compatibility so it will stay compatible with different Master Fader versions longer as long as we don't add a new feature that My Fader needs to know about. Thus we didn't need to release a My Fader 3.1.
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Kudos to Mackie and the whole team. I really appreciate your responsiveness.
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I love my DL32R and of course,, this forum is great too!
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Agree with all that it's good to see the mackie folks back interacting with us.
For a long time there was no comments from that side of the fence, but over the last
month or so we see them chiming in a bit more regularly. Makes me feel like we here have an inside
friend with an open ear to the concerns. Also keeps,me feeling confident in the product line and
helps me when I make recommendations to others about their future purchases. I know at least 4
People that have purchased a 1608 or 32R based on my demonstration of the product to them.
Hopefully this will be a great ongoing communication with both sides being supportive and
understanding.
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Beno has always been good at giving us answers, I'd certainly buy him a beer if we ever met :)
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I'll echo the comments others have made here. Mackie has really stepped up their game in terms of communication. When I first started gigging with the 1608 other local musicians would be fascinated by it. Once they saw MyFader in action they were sold. I know of 3 other bands in my little circuit that have jumped on board with Mackie in the last 18 months. Knowing Mackie and beno in particular are listening makes me feel a whole lot better about touting their hardware.
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Thanks all. We're working harder at this.
We have some cool things in store for Master Fader coming up. We definitely aren't slowing down with adding new features and making your mixer even better.
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Ben, can you share any future features that we can look forward to?
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Thanks all. We're working harder at this.
We have some cool things in store for Master Fader coming up. We definitely aren't slowing down with adding new features and making your mixer even better.
So long as it all works with my DL1608 on my iPad Air 2, iPad Mini, and iPhone 5, I'm a happy camper! ;)
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Ben, can you share any future features that we can look forward to?
We've gotten burned in the past announcing things early, so we're going to stay quiet until things are officially announced. But definitely the top of the user voice list is a good place to look for ideas.
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Beno, I've enjoyed the new toys, so I'll wait until Mackie releases them. Thanks for all you do.
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https://mackie.uservoice.com/
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Well, if they (Mackie) keep things simple as far as the supported platform, i.e. not releasing an Android version, then it looks like an RTA overlay and updated reverbs might be in the next build. Both of these would be extremely good to have for me personally and would get used frequently.
If music controls are going into MF4 (or 3.X) if would be great if this was a player that allowed for local files, UPNP, DLNA, etc with a playlist creation option to really add value to the interface. Having used a third party app to do something similar (UPNP) and it working well, it would be a nice way to access break music or do lite-DJ duties.
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Maybe we need Mackie around to let us know how much a low priced digital mixer can be. It's way more than I bought 20 months ago.
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Like many of us here we probably migrated to the mackie DL from some other form of mixer, most likely an analog desk. I went from a Yamaha or Carvin desk to the DL. Since one band I work with had already made the change and I was impressed with the ease of use, it made sense for me to switch too. I liked having to only remember 1 board, at my age it's important to save brain cells.
At that time, and even now I had no expectation of the DL having every available feature, I knew I was not buying a DiGiCo board and at $800 and a used iPad I sure was pleased with the offering. Yeah, the FX were not the best, but I always had the option of using an outboard processor. For the average Joe, doing club and corporate dates it was perfect. I was not planning on doing big multi band festivals so that was not even a consideration. Larger shows that needed more inputs I have done I borrowed a X-32.
I have not been disappointed in the purchase to this date and feel the upgrades have added value to the money I already paid. Having subgroups, VCA groups, more routing options and the misc. upgrades
have been a bonus. Sure the lagging display period was not a pleasant time, but is now a thing of the past.
I have run the X and M series made by others and feel they are great boards with amazing flexibility and features, but comparing costs I still think for my needs the DL is great bang for the buck. My main gig has just switched to the 32R for this coming years shows with a little prodding from me, and we are able to put the patches together via Dropbox, very cool.
So while I agree with those that are supporters of the "other "
mfgs. that tout the wonders of their product that they offer a plethora of great features, I always keep in mind that the cost is 3 times the DL1608, and my needs are not at this time 3 times the capability of the 1608. So for now I won't throw stones at Mackie especially when they are stepping up with communication and product improvements.
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I've bitched and whined about the product and it's issues in the time that I've been here for sure, but in reality unfortunately today there are no guarantees. But when a company takes an active interest in customer feedback on their product, that shows me that they do care what we have to say about said product, even if they take little longer to make improvements in hardware and apps.
Every question I’ve ever posed to Mackie has been promptly answered in a timely fashion to my satisfaction. I’m sure there are a bunch here that have had a good customer experience with them and there’s some that haven’t and that’s unfortunate. I guess I’ve been lucky so far. Some will buy Mackie and some will not, just like any other product out there I guess.
Just a couple of quotes to end off:
“You catch more flies with honey”
"And never, ever ever get caught with your fly down”. ;)
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I don't think we have much reason to complain. I have a much better product than I purchased. Didn't need for it to be better. Had lots of reasons to just use it as it was. But I'm not going back. I like the improvements.