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Just Awesome!
Jeff Mueller from St. Louis, Mo. USA
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Built very well. Heavy and durable.
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I love the transport. Makes life SO much easier than pointing and clicking with a mouse!
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I run PT 9.0.3. I was actually dreading hooking this up and had set a side a few hours to trouble shoot, load new drivers, etc. I had it working in under 5 minutes. So simple to hook up and connect with Pro Tools.
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I think this was the best money spent on my studio. Makes Pro Tools and recording in general alot easier and more fun.
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Looks just like the picture. Sleek, small, yet highly functional
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Best product
Chris from Nj
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Built very well
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Love the transport and flying fader
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One of the easiest products to use
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Affordable for a transport.
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Build solid
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INDISPENSABLE as a remote MIDI control surface!
Vic Rivera from Bronx, NY, USA
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Built like a tank and with its rugged metal face plate and seriously durable front panel control buttons and fader, this thing should last forever...
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The Faderport's reasonably deep MIDI control of my Pro Tools software has made my life SO much easier. I have it mounted on my Yamaha DTX rack at the drum station in my project studio: this unit, combined with a video monitor and wireless mouse/keyboard at the station, has TOTALLY eliminated the need for me to get up to tweak any parameters at my main workstation where my Pro Tools Rig resides. My workflow has increased, I am able to tweak my Toontrack software to my heart's desire and track/edit at will from my drum station - in very large part thanks to the Faderport!
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Stupidly easy to use. Seriously, the Faderport met and far surpassed every expectation I had of it and has totally changed my life in my studio. Thanks, Presonus!
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Are you kidding? This is a STEAL at this price point...
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Looks great and compliments my other gear - like a seamless extension of my Mac Pro, and it sits well on the Yamaha DTX rack it is mounted on! (*Note: there is no mounting hardware or screw holes on this item so don't expect either, it's meant to sit on a flat surface - I customized a secure, stable mount for it and attached it to the drum rack with a multiclamp....)
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Built great, but wouldn't work
User from PA, USA
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The Faderport appears to be a physically very well-built unit. Unfortunately it's drivers refused to work with my computer, even though my system fullfills its system requirements; I followed the install instructions to the letter, but when it got to the point where it tries to "see" the unit and download/install firmware updates it kept insisting that it couldn't find it and to try again.
I went through all of the various fixes listed in the various related online forums - still no luck.
The final straw for me was that PreSonus never replied back to my attempts to contact them for support, via both email and phone (emails were never replied to; whenever I called I got voice-mail and they never called me back). After various attempts to get support from PreSonus this way and getting zero responses, I finally just gave up and returned the unit.
It's really a shame, as I have other PreSonus equipment that I'm very happy with and had high hopes for the FaderPort.
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Hardware-wise, the features appeared to be wonderful: solid build-quality including Alps fader, solid design, etc. Unfortunately that became a moot point when it refused to work with my computer...
Features I'd add? Actually support from PreSonus would've been a nice feature, but sadly they apparently didn't find my situation worth replying back about.
Next time perhaps I'll try a Frontier AlphaTrack, which had been my original intention.
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The unit was impossible to use at all for the reasons listed above.
The manual that shipped with it was old (dated 2004) and missing much of the information needed to work with SONAR that I needed; I ended up downloading the newest manual and drivers from their website.
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Had the unit actually worked, it would've been an exceptional value.
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The FaderPort certainly LOOKS very nice indeed, I'll give it that...