Question

Hello, I use a CS18AI and RM16AI. I have a few suggestions for improvements to the Control Surface and the RM Mixer. It would be “the last update”, so to speak. 1. Group Masters. The mode is cleverly made... but would it be possible if you could also add outputs and talkback to the mode? It would make a lot of things easier... And that you can press the option or control button on Select in Group Masters mode and then use the pan control to move the individual groups back and forth on the layout? 2. Mute Groups. When you start up the Control Surface and the RM Mixer, the Mute Groups are no longer active, even though you activated them before. And if it is possible that when you change scenes the groups are reset and saved. 3. Show level and button in Group Master mode. In master mode, there are no level displays and no freely assignable colored buttons. How about if you can select the Group Master channel by pressing Option or Control and click on the gear wheel at the top of the touchscreen and select colors there. 4. DAW mode. When you switch from DAW mode to normal mode, the faders jump an bit down and then up again super quickly. Why not in a smooth run? 5. Phantom power across scenes. If you activate 48 V in a scene and then change the scene, the 48 V remains on even though you have changed the scene. 6. Add Wave effect back to the test modes. There used to be wave effects in the fader test mode. Could these be added again? Thank you for reading.  Kind regards, Lenne

Answer 1

Being purchased by Fender seems to have little effect on Presonus going back and continue the development on the AI series that COULD STILL BE DONE with respect to the systems within that line being made to work together better. As for the CS18AI controller - it's a controller. The only negative effect that Presonus' pre-standards based AVB has is with respect to transferring audio over the ethernet cable... it should have NO NEGATIVE EFFECT whatsoever on improvements to the control functions offered by the CS18AI with respect to any of the series III mixers. The fact that Presonus decided to remove the Firewire driver and its support has nothing to do with necessity, they could have left it there so that version 4 of UC could support every piece of gear that version 3 supported.

Apple Macintosh computers from 2012, with the use of a piece of software added to the bootloader, can run MacOS versions up to Ventura and possibly further (only mentioning the latest one I run regularly). One does have to max out the RAM and install an SSD drive, but the cost is low. Apple cuts those computers off needlessly, refusing to support the older computers - it's not that the computers are incapable of running the newer OS with reasonable results. Apple is only interested in forcing the sale of new hardware... Presonus has adopted the same strategy when faced with the unfortunate blunders made with the AI line, and the promises broken. If their marketing of the line was correct when it was introduced, there could have been incredible advances in the capabilities of the hardware. They made the corporate decision to follow Apple's lead.