Overview

The Mackie Ultramix Automation System is now available at your local pro audio dealer, and it's worth thinking about. If you're running an analog console and 16 or more tracks (and have a Macintosh computer in service), your mixing needs are probably more than rudimentary. Here's a powerful, inexpensive automation system that will do a lot for you with comparatively few problems.

The package will interface with any console, but requires a Macintosh computer (Windows underway), OMS, a MIDI interface and SMPTE/MIDI Time Code to work. Assuming you have all that stuff lying around (and you probably do if you have the above stuff), you can be in the fully automated business pretty easily.