It’s small, firmly detented, and doubles as a push button, but unfortunately fails as a jog wheel. Presonus doesn’t call the FaderPort 8’s large blue knob a jog wheel, but given you can scrub through your session with it you’d be forgiven for such an assumption. The only things that’ll go clickety-clack are the pan/transport knobs and the faders when they hit minus infinity. FaderPort 8 sports silent rubber buttons that still feel good to push. The original FaderPort had plastic buttons that clicked noisily when pressed.
The detents aren’t my favourite either, but it does help when scrolling through menus. Selecting a track before panning it isn’t an enormous inconvenience, but I reckon it’s just enough to get on your nerves when trying to throw together a mix quickly. Yep, you only get one endless pan/parameter knob that lives on the top left of the surface. The pan pot has been (excuse the pun) ported as well, though unfortunately this didn’t propagate an extra seven. They’re smooth and pleasantly-weighted, with quick and quiet motors, ergonomic finger curvatures, and a generous 100mm of travel. Obviously the fader itself has been copied and pasted seven times, and each one oozes ‘pro’. ONE TO EIGHTįaderPort 8 has a few carryover features from the original FaderPort. Onto the niggles: the surface kicks back at a slight angle but it’s still just shy of having the scribble strips at the best viewing angle, the diminutive Solo and Mute buttons are a slight design flaw - they’re so close together that you can easily press both with one finger, and the ‘lump in the lead’ external power supply always feels a bit budget. I love the extra room underneath the faders to rest the heel of your hand.
Faderport 8 pro tools professional#
Spaciously laid out controls give the surface a professional feel.
Faderport 8 pro tools driver#
The FaderPort 8 is a class compliant device, so no driver installation is necessary to get it running with your computer.
Kinda like a budget-friendly version of Avid, five years ago.
Faderport 8 pro tools software#
Pitched as the ultimate Studio One controller, it fills a niche that extends Presonus’s vision of being an in-house stable of hardware and software products that’ll do it all. The CS18AI finally brought motorised faders to the StudioLive paradigm, but that’s also why it can’t really be reduced to competing as a simple DAW controller.Įnter FaderPort 8. With Studio One becoming a big player in the DAW game and the company steadily building its own ecosystem of interconnectable devices with the StudioLive family, it made sense for Presonus to create a more thorough iteration of the FaderPort. Similar controllers were available from other vendors but the FaderPort dwarfed them in popularity. Presonus’s original FaderPort brought the envied motorised fader to bedroom studios around the world in a cheap and compact single-fader unit. It was like falling in love all over again - with mixing, that is.
Oh, happiness! Eight glorious, touch-sensitive, motorised faders surrounded with digital backlit scribble strips, extensive transport controls, a preposterous number of buttons, and a very modest asking price. Thankfully the FaderPort 8 landed on my desk for review. I even settled into performing automation moves with a mouse (gasp!). But to my shame I’ve been mixing without them for a fair while now, with no better excuse than insufficient desk real estate. Real faders, by the way - not those plasticky, Fisher Price, non-motorised types.
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