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<blockquote data-quote="Caleb Dueck" data-source="post: 41392" data-attributes="member: 60">Re: Is iLive the biggest/best digital for the money?Hi Frederik,Agreed, expanders would be nice.&nbsp; Having comp and gate, and de-ess or limiter, makes lack of expander a smaller issue though. The iLive has option for full 20-20k for all bands, selectable separately on inputs and outputs. I wish 20-20k were the default. The LED next to the soft keys is soft as well, and can show status of mutes. I use the soft keys/LED&#039;s as DCA mutes, with status. The little red LED on each channel that shows channel mute or DCA mute is great. For ch numbers, the alt view button helps. I really don&#039;t like how physical input 16 is shown as B8, 22 is C6, etc. If mixing on DCA&#039;s primarily, with colors used well, I don&#039;t miss channel numbers. I need input ports for patching (alt view button patched for this), but not so much channels. The layout is definitely not Yamaha-esque, but that isn&#039;t bad. M7 and lower especially have an old/early &#039;feel&#039; to me; I may be in the minority here. I grew up on Yamaha digital like many others, btw. The mix buttons are powerful, one of the greatest features in my opinion. The greatest obstacle to getting comfortable on the iLive - unlearning the Yamaha mindset most of us have. For training brand new techs, the iLive is much easier than any other surface I have used other than Vistonics.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Caleb Dueck, post: 41392, member: 60"] Re: Is iLive the biggest/best digital for the money? Hi Frederik, Agreed, expanders would be nice. Having comp and gate, and de-ess or limiter, makes lack of expander a smaller issue though. The iLive has option for full 20-20k for all bands, selectable separately on inputs and outputs. I wish 20-20k were the default. The LED next to the soft keys is soft as well, and can show status of mutes. I use the soft keys/LED's as DCA mutes, with status. The little red LED on each channel that shows channel mute or DCA mute is great. For ch numbers, the alt view button helps. I really don't like how physical input 16 is shown as B8, 22 is C6, etc. If mixing on DCA's primarily, with colors used well, I don't miss channel numbers. I need input ports for patching (alt view button patched for this), but not so much channels. The layout is definitely not Yamaha-esque, but that isn't bad. M7 and lower especially have an old/early 'feel' to me; I may be in the minority here. I grew up on Yamaha digital like many others, btw. The mix buttons are powerful, one of the greatest features in my opinion. The greatest obstacle to getting comfortable on the iLive - unlearning the Yamaha mindset most of us have. For training brand new techs, the iLive is much easier than any other surface I have used other than Vistonics. [/QUOTE]

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