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The rise of the DAW & software plugin instruments & effects democratised music making for the masses, but people soon realised what was missing was hands-on control. Controllers include master keyboards used to play & control software synths, controllers dedicated to a specific instrument or plugin and generic controllers for plugins & DAW's...
If you are recording any type of audio sounds to your productions from vocals to acoustic guitars to hand percussion & more then you need a microphone & nowdays the amount of choice is staggering.

If you went back just 20 years to the end of the 1990s and you bought a microphone it'd usually be from either the American company Shure, the Japanese company Audio-Technica or the Germans who previously dominated quality microphone production via companies like AKG, Sennheiser, Beyerdynamic & Neumann.

But things changed as we entered the 1990s. Smaller companies started appearing offering low-cost but quality microphones usually sourced in China and then imported & modified to create some serious cost competition for the old legacy companies. One of the first of these was Australian company Røde who brought their NT-1 to market followed by the NT-2, both mic's soon established themselves as budget high-quality products, with Røde shifting to manufacture most of the components in Australia but their mic's still used Chinese parts to some extent.

As we reached the end of the 1990s the Chinese revolution started to seriously take off with a wide range of Chinese-made mics appearing all over western markets, either imported with the Chinese manufacturer's name or with the western company branding simply added at the Chinese factory. The Chinese factories turned out visual clones of all the famous American, Japanese & German mic's, but with inferior components & electronics, but the die was cast & soon all the lower-cost models from all the big legacy companies were being manufactured in China too. The upshot of all this was that good quality microphones, particularly large diaphragm vocal condenser mic's finally became affordable for the masses in their home studio setups.
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DAW control surfaces

In essense a microphone converts sound wave vibrations - the music or other audio sound source - into an electrical signal which is then amplfied and fed into the recording or live system via a microphone pre-amplifier. The part of the microphone which converts the mechanical energy (soundwaves) into electrical energy (the mcirophone signal) is called the Transducer. Microphones use different transducer types & each type has it's own characteristics.

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Classic DAW controllers

Mackie HUI

First shown at AES in 1996 and designed to work with the forthcoming Pro Tools 4.0
Mackie HUI stands for Human User Interface. the HUI features 100mm touch motorised faders, transport controls, DAE Plug-Ins control, keyboard shortcuts, window buttons & built-in mic preamps. HUI also features an analog control room section with three sets of speaker/phones controls and built-in talkback mic. This is the unit that started it all & over the following years DAW control became a big thing with various companies bringing solutions to the table.

Digidesign Pro Control

A cheap, controllable, genuine Roland oldie which can be clocked with midi-CV. It has plenty of realtime controllers to mess with & a built-in pattern sequencer, sorta like an SH-101 without the keys.

Digidesign Pro Control Edit & Fader Packs

Digidesign added the Fader Pack & the Edit Pack modules which could be added to the original Pro Control module in various configurations.

Focusrite Control 24

Released in 2001 as a collaboration between Focusrite & Digidesign. Works as an audio interface with 16 Focusrite Platinum Series Mic pre-amps on the rear which can be fead to Pro Tools inputs via D-Sub connections on rear. The unit also included comprehensive monitoring i/o, as well as additional Aux outputs & more.

Emagic Logic Control

Logic Control was released in 2001 to coincide with the all-new Emagic Logic V5 which introduced the new track based automation. Manufactured by Mackie in a joint collaboration between the two companies, Logic Control is based on Mackie's HUI protocol. Also available was the optional XT 8-fader add-on unit to give 16 channel faders in total.

Steinberg Houston

Released in 2001 the Houston controller was designed by Steinberg to work specifically with Cubase VST & Nuendo and was manufactured by Soundcraft.

Radikal Technologies SAC 2K

Launched in 2000 at Frankfurt Musikmesse, the Radikal Technologies SAC 2K is an advanced & rather expansive DAW controller. Also available was the SAC 8X channel expander which could be connected with the main unit to give 16 channel faders in total or even used as a more simple 8 channel controller in it's own right. The SAC 2K was superseded in 2001 by the updated SAC 2.2K model for $1849.00 USD. SAC stands for 'Software Assigned Controller' btw.
The SAC 2K reigned supreme for a while, as one of it's big selling points was the fact it could work with many different DAWs, but the release of Mackie Control two years later gave it serious competition & eventually after carrying on with the updated 2.2k version of the product (and even releasing a new add-on SAC-MS Monitor section) Radical discontinued the product range. The SAC 2.2k can be picked up on Ebay and elsewhere nowadays for as little as £150 GBP.

Mackie Control & MCU

Mackie Control from June 2003. Mackie basically took their Logic Control and made it universal for others DAWs, although notably on release it didn't work with Cubase. The series was updated and by October 2003 it was being officially referred to as Mackie Control Universal (MCU), with both the slightly older Logic Control & Mackie Control units & their extension units all being updatable via firmware, now merging the Mackie Control and Logic Control technologies into one control surface with most popular DAWs supporting it by mid 2004, including Logic Audio, Pro Tools, Samplitude, Sequoia, SONAR, Digital Performer, Saw Studio, Cubase SX/SL & Nuendo and Adobe Audition. Total faders can be extended up to 32 channels with the Mackie Control XT fader unit & additionally there was the C4 rotary controller unit for controlling software instruments and 3rd party plugins.

MCU Pro

Mackie's updated Mackie Control, now dubbed Mackie Control Universal Pro or MCU Pro

CM Labs Motormix

Debuting at the Jan 2004 NAMM show, CM Labs delivered what was at the time quite an advanced controller system comprised of 3 units: the Dashboard controller (with no faders, the Pan control knobs can be switched to do fader control for each of the 8 channels), the Motor Mix fader unit, and the the Motor Mate which is a hybrid of the Motor Mix fader unit added to a reduced features Dashboard & is about twice the width of the other two units as a consequence. Units can be used together to create large multi-channel configurations. The Motor Mate unit can be connected to an accessory Monitor Interface Module (MIM) via a 15 pin D-sub type connector & this then allows you to route DAW audio outs into the Motor Mate for control of monitor & studio feeds as well as features like alternative monitor speaker switching to different speakers etc.

Tascam US-2400

From 2005. Tascam delivers a 24 channel DAW controller with the emphasis on simplicity. You get fader & pan control, plus channel Mutes & Solo & transport buttons, but there's no control for things like channel EQ. Like most DAW controllers is uses a Mackie's HUI emulation for Pro-Tools & Mackie Control emulation for other DAWs like Cubase & Logic. If you can find one in really good condition cheap it could be a good purchase for 24 channels of mix fader automation.

Behringer BCF2000

Launched in 2005 the BCF2000 (and sister BCR2000) controller units were a huge hit retailing at less than £200 GBP each. Using Mackie HUI & Logic Control protocol these units offer automated faders & control of DAW channel, pan, channel EQ & plugin parameters at a super low price. Multiple BCF units can be installed together to give 16 or 24 fader channels.

Slate Raven MTZ

If you want full hands on control the Slate Raven MTZ offers 42 inches of 1920 x 1080 DAW control via a flat touch control panel. The software works with the main DAWs Pro Tools 10-2020, Logic Pro X, Ableton Live 9 & 10, Cubase Pro 8 - 10.5, Nuendo 7 - 10, Studio One v4 & v5 & Digital Performer 8 - 10. The software includes a bottom screen width control section which allows the user to setup various functions they want to do & the screen & software combination features various multi-touch gestures for opening plugins, zooming, selecting  & more. The Slate Raven MTZ cost around £2200 GBP ex VAT, but deals can be done as these don't sell much.

Slate Raven MTi 2

If you want full hands on control the Slate Raven MTi 2 offers 27 inches of 1920 x 1080 DAW control via a flat touch control panel. The software works with the main DAWs Pro Tools 10-2020, Logic Pro X, Ableton Live 9 & 10, Cubase Pro 8 - 10.5, Nuendo 7 - 10, Studio One v4 & v5 & Digital Performer 8 - 10. The software includes a bottom screen width control section which allows the user to setup various functions they want to do & the screen & software combination features various multi-touch gestures for opening plugins, zooming, selecting  & more. The Slate Raven MTi 2 cost around £759 GBP ex VAT. A dual screen setup therefore comes in at £1600 GBP EX VAT.

Master keyboards / controllers

The Akai MPC series is a much misunderstood product line. From the first model released - the MPC-60 - the MPC series were designed & marketed as a hardware sequencer AND sample based drum machine, all in one, designed to be the center piece of a MIDI based studio.

At the same time as Akai updated & released subsequent MPC models they also released their fully-featured rack & keyboard 'S' series samplers, with the MPC's always having the primary role of being a sample drum & loop player with combined hardware sequencer all they way through until the early 2000's at which point finally Akai started to bring what you'd call full sampler features to the MPC series and from that point forwards Akai samplers & their MPC series started to become interchangable as full fledged samplers allowing mapped sample sets with velocity layering and all the things you'd expact from a fully fledged sampler.

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Classic master keyboards / controllers

Roland MKB-1000 & MKB-300

Released in 1984, these were two of the first ever master keyboards which had no internal synth engine (known as 'dumb' keyboards through this early era). Roland released these two units as part of their new MKS (Mother Keyboard System) series of synth modules; the MKS10 (Planet P), the MKS-30 (Planet S) & the full on Jupiter 8 module, the MKS-80 (Super Jupiter). The MKB1000 cost £1665 while the MKB300 was priced at £990.

Roland Pad-8 Octapad

Released in 1985 for an RRP of £399 GBP the Octapad was a big product for Roland delivering a set of eight rubber playable pads which could be mounted on any standard drum percussion/tom mounting stand and be used to trigger and play drum machines, samplers and more both in studio and live on stage. 4 banks of 8 pads can have different settings stored and the Octapad can do other things like send program changes.

Akai MX73

Released in 1986 just 3 years after MIDI appeared as a technology & costing  £599 GBP, the MX73 was Akai's first master keyboard & also one of the first master keyboards generally to be released, offering an all metal high quality build featuring 73 keys over 6 Octaves with up to 4 Key splits, each with it's own MIDI channel & octave range. All metal construction. 100 program memory. One of the early dedicated MIDI master keyboard controllers from Akai. MIDI out x 2, External control out (DIN/5P), Tape IN/OUT, Program up Jack, Sustain pedal jack, Control in (1 - 4) for foot switch (1 - 4) for foot control.

Cheetah MK5

Released in 1986 as a home computer peripheral & sold exclusively in the UK by Boots the high street chemist (pharmacy) retail chain for just £99.95! Yeah weird, but at that time Boots sold a very small range of consumer electronics including the Sinclair Spectrum which they sold with a basic music program which utilised the Spectrum's AY-3-8910 sound chip. British company Cheetah were therefore commissioned to create something to play it with & this was the result, one of the first ever MIDI master keyboards! The MK5 has a metal casing, with 5 octaves (61) of full sized keys but with NO velocity sensitivity as this was build to a price for playing a basic computer program. Pitch-wheel only & a simple MIDI out on the back, plus a few basic functions like ability to change MIDI channel, transpose the keys up/down an octave and send out program change messages, but it sold like hot cakes at that price. One of the stranger stories in music tech history anyway. Obviously Cheetah went on to market this into the music tech sector and added further models including an updated MK5V as well as a drum machine, synth module & even an electronic drumkit.

Kit Inc DrumKat

Kit Inc released the original DrumKat as their second product in 1988 for around £475 GBP, and this drum pad trigger unit sold in large numbers. There are almost no images available for the original MK1 unit outside of badly scanned magazine stock-shots, so pictured above is the revised 3.5 version from 1998 which is essentially the same but has updated software & a different power connector. The DrumKat has no internal sounds, working as a controller only, and in addition to the 10 built-in playing pad areas you can connect up to 8 external drum pad triggers and route those to whatever MIDI parameters you like to trigger a wider palette of sounds as part of a whole 'kit'. A large variety of parameters can be set for pads and the variously labelled pads themselves double as function buttons you press to perform editing tasks. Kit Inc went out of business in 1996 and became the Alternate Mode company with a new owner, continuing to make related products to this day.

Cheetah 7P

Released in 1989 for around £699.99 GBP. Top of the range master keyboard from British company Cheetah, with 88 piano weighted Velocity & release velocity sensitive keys, 8 user definable key zones, Midi echo delay & arpeggio, 80 performance memories, 4 midi outs, mini In & Thru, plus Expression & 2 further foot pedal connections. These 7P master keyboards had a heavy duty build quality, undercut the Japanese competition for price and sold in large numbers.

JL Cooper Fadermaster

1989 £229 GBP. Not a DAW controller because DAWs didn't exist when this came out. But you could map it to draw MIDI volume curves in a sequencer software like Cubase or whatever. This unit was for control of synth and other MIDI hardware & software parameters.

JL Cooper CS-10

Became a standard fader controller for early Pro-tools which had direct support for the CS-10 and carried this over to subsequent versions, but the CS-10 also functioned as a general purpose MIDI controller.

Peavey PC1600

1993 The PC1600 is a general purpose MIDI fader controller designed for controlling parameters of synths and other MIDI equipment. Fader can be assigned to CC numbers and have their own channel as well as a max & min value for the assigned Controller number. The buttons can send out a Mute command which sends out the minimum value of the fader while Solo function send the minimum value out for all OTHER faders than the one being solo'd. The buttons can also send a note on / off with press & release or a program change & additional custom strings of midi messages can be assigned if required.

Roland MCR-8

Released in 1994 for £295 GBP, the MCR-8 was a general purpose MIDI controller, also functioning as a MIDI interface for any Mac or PC sporting an RS-422/RS-232C port. The MCR-8 had 4 'Modes', the first being a general Roland GS control mode making it instantly compatible with any GS unit such as Roland's Sound Canvas. Mode 2 switches the unit to be a general purpose MIDI mixer. Mode 3 was a PC software controller mode & Mode 4 emulated the JL Cooper CS-10 which was well established at this point and had protocol built into control Digidesign software.

Miditech Midicontrol

From 2001 costing around £159 GBP, this was probably the first MIDI controller combined with a master keyboard to hit the market coming from the British distributor Etcetera who carved a niche for themselves distributing early computer audio products (including DAL, Turtle Beach & Marian audio cards, Cakewalk, SONAR, early Hoontech & ST Audio  interfaces & more). The German made Midicontrol had a 4 octave velocity sensitive keyboard, the usual Mod & Pitch wheels & sustain pedal jack on the back, but added 12 continuous controller pots which was something of a new idea back in 2001.

M-Audio Oxygen8

From 2002 costing around £120 GBP, this was the second MIDI controller combined with a master keyboard to hit the market & it had M-Audio's marketing muscle behind it and sold by the truckload. 25 keys transposable by +/- 4 Octaves, eight controller pots for assigning to MIDI parameters of software or external hardware devices plus Pitch & Mod wheels, USB Bus powered but can also work off batteries or DC adapter. Also provides a traditional USB connected MIDI interface for any external MIDI equipment.

M-Audio Keystation 49e

From around 2002 this was a popular and early USB bus-master powered keyboard costing $129 USD on release. 49 full sized keys with velocity sensitivity, pitch & Mod wheels plus  a built in MIDI interface made this a big seller. M-Audio also sold an upgraded Keystation 61es & 88es with semi weighted keys. The Keystation series is still sold today and just as popular as ever.

M-Audio Radium

From around 2002 & oddly marketed as both MIDIman & M-Audio products, the Radium controller master keyboards were another big hit for M-Audio with these two offerings delivering either 61 (5 Octaves) or 49 (4 Octaves) keys, +/- 3 Octaves, with Pitch & Mod Wheels, all combined with 16 MIDI assignable controllers in the form of 8 pots & 8 sliders. Both units functioned as a USB traditional MIDI interface too, offering two MIDI OUT sockets, one direct from the Keyboard & the other being from any connected computer via USB. The Radium 49 also could run off batteries.

Behringer BCR2000

Launched in 2005 the BCR2000 controller unit was a huge hit retailing at less than £200 GBP. While the BCF2000 sister unit is designed as a DAW controller, the BCR2000 is a generic controller designed for use with either software instruments or effects plugins where the controls can be freely assigned to the required parameters for hands-on control. The BCR2000 is a super value & comprehensive controller unit with enough controls to assign to a full set of parameters for even the most detailed software or hardware synth.

Korg Nano series

Released in 2009 the Korg Nano series offered a choice of 3 truly portable micro-sized controller units for the super cheap prices of £52 GBP for the Nano Keys and £63 GBP for either the Nano Pad or Nano Kontrol. All units derive power via USB & editing of parameters is achieved with the Korg Kontrol Editor which the user installs along with the Korg USB driver. The Nano Pad & Nano Keys both offer velocity sensitive performance playing. The Nano Pad allows the drum pads to transmit MIDI on one channel or different channels per pad while the X-Y Axis pad allows pitch-bend, the sending of MIDI CC control or on/off commands as well as automatically playing rolls and flam hits. The Nano Keys houses a 2 octave 25 note keyboard with 12 semi-tones of up/down shift available as well as octave switching, and in CC control mode the keys function as 25 control switches with momentary & toggle modes. Finally the Nano Kontrol packs a surprising total of 9 knobs & 9 faders plus 18 buttons and a transport section all into a tiny footprint with comprehensive editing & control features belying it's tiny size, with SoS summarising the Nano Kontrol thusly: "The Nano Kontrol's functions out-perform those of larger, more expensive keyboard controllers". The Nano series sold like hot cakes and has been through various revisions since, still being sold today in updated form.

Old school classic studio monitors

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Classic 16-bit samplers

Roland TR-606

The classic acid bassline synth. Much imitated over the years with original units in good condition going for silly money.

Roland TR-808

A cheap, controllable, genuine Roland oldie which can be clocked with midi-CV. It has plenty of realtime controllers to mess with & a built-in pattern sequencer, sorta like an SH-101 without the keys.

Roland TR-909

The old fabled monosynth. First port of call for thumping solid basslines & much much more.

Boss DR-55

The famous Juno 106. Something of a legend in dance music production as it offers classic Roland analog oscilagtors with MIDI.

Korg KPR-77

Another of the few budget old Roland synths that won't break the bank. Needs a CV-clock to run the sequencer or you can play it live from the keys. Lots of realtime controls with this affordable classic.

Roland CR-78

An often overlooked bargain bucket old classic The Jen SX doesn't have alot of sound variety, but a very nice filter. Check one out.

British hi-fi speakers

'British' speakers was a term coined back in the old days which not only meant the speakers were British made, but more importantly it refered to a pair of monitor speakers which delivered a 'flat' output, meaning they didn't hype the sound at all like typical hi-fi speakers from Japanese companies. If you go back only 20 years ago. Donec laoreet et leo at iaculis. Nunc et sem id eros gravida ornare. Vestibulum quis ex nec lacus tincidunt lobortis. Vivamus nec suscipit sem, nec sagittis urna. Etiam feugiat lacus ut dui convallis fringilla. Integer tincidunt purus vel dapibus venenatis. Vivamus blandit mauris at massa aliquet, nec pretium ipsum iaculis. Donec scelerisque, magna sit amet pulvinar tincidunt, nunc massa dapibus eros, fermentum elementum metus massa quis eros. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos.

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Classic groovebox samplers

Novation Drumstation

The original & best! Superbly modelled 808 & 909 kits with separate outs for drums & you can mix & match kits to create 909-808 hybrids, all in a handy 19" rack format.

Korg Electribe R

A cheap, controllable, genuine Roland oldie which can be clocked with midi-CV. It has plenty of realtime controllers to mess with & a built-in pattern sequencer, sorta like an SH-101 without the keys.

Korg Volca drum

From early hip-hop to Prince, this box has seen a lot of use in huge selling tracks in various genres.

Clavia Nord drum

Once the top-end sample drum box from Roland, if you can find them this unit takes expansion cards loaded with 909 samples and more.

Elektron Machinedrum

Another of the few budget old Roland synths that won't break the bank. Needs a CV-clock to run the sequencer or you can play it live from the keys. Lots of realtime controls with this affordable classic.

Yamaha AN-200

An often overlooked bargain bucket old classic The Jen SX doesn't have alot of sound variety, but a very nice filter. Check one out.

Software samplers

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Top selling audio interfaces

Here's the top selling microphones at Thomann's store based on previous months sales figures. This will give you an idea about what products are currently popular at Europe's largest retailer.

Arturia Microfreak

Behringer Neutron

Behringer Pro-1

Behringer TD-3

Korg Minilogue XD

Moog Subharmonicon

Behringer Crave

Sequential Prophet 6

James

23-July-2020

SDR-1000+ Reverb has to be one of the most subjective tools in audio. Undoubtedly the SDR has some interesting heritage (Sony) in additon to some useful features that make it more flexible than other comparable units from that era (true stereo, basic routing of L & R processors, midi patch selection). But compared to other verbs around the same price point ($100-200 range), Im not feeling any baseline "magic" from its sound. More like a workhorse, again within the scope of the time period these were being made, which isnt necessarily a bad thing.

Perhaps if you're hunting down a specific production chain or setup (some well known artists apparently used these), otherwise much better uses of rack space available out there for the same money imho.

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an underated usb interface, Tascam has continued to update drivers and improve performance for this product. I own two of them, and like the size, sound quality and mulitude of connection and paths available.

I use the 64 bit windows 7 driver without problems. These are available used quite cheaply and are handy for vocal and guitar recording.The only drawback is the low profile knobs, which were designed not to snag when carried in a backpack or bag. it takes a while to get used to using two fingers to turn the knobs, instead of 1 finger and your thumb, but it becomes intutive like scratching a record. I colored the knobs on mine with different color sharpies to make it easier to quickly see which knob I wanted to adjust.

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awesome sound. capable of mybloodyvalentine type swirling sounds, as well as verve-y sonic paradise sounds. it is a permanent addition to my setup.

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i bought this delay a couple of months ago to use in my synth/drumachine setup. I was expeting kind of lofi style but was suprised with this "meaty" analog sound.. very musical and at once became a favourite.. it sounds like a instrument! love it..

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