I have not used that particular unit but while it is programmable, it seems to be a fixed architecture unit and that is quite different than the open architecture approach of a SoundWeb or London. Instead of creating a custom system system configuration using a number of available processing blocks, the DX1208 seems to have predefined input processing and output processing separated by a matrix mixer. This is not nearly as flexible as an open architecture approach, for example if you wanted to create a submix within the processing that is then mixed with other inputs, you'd apparently have to create the submix as a matrix output and then loop the related physical output back into a physical input, you can't make that path internal to the processing. However, if the processing defined works for the application then it may be just fine.
