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<blockquote data-quote="Brad Weber" data-source="post: 65858" data-attributes="member: 114">Re: X16 PreviewThat may be the crux of it as &quot;market segment&quot; has little definition, look at the auto industry where just about everyone claims their models to be some kind of leader in their market segment by constantly defining new market segments.&nbsp; So it all comes down to how you define the market segments and not everyone may have the same delineations.Well, you can walk off with the control surface as long as you don&#039;t mind not having the trims/gains available, not having any cueing/monitoring, not being able to have a local source, not having talkback and being dependent on a wireless network.&nbsp; That may work for your use but not necessarily for all applications.I also think you may be overlooking some of the potential applications for digital snakes.&nbsp; For example, I work on many venues that in order to provide flexibility in setup want more physical inputs than they will actually use at any one time.&nbsp; Think of something like a small black box theater that might only need 16 channels of mixing but could benefit from having I/O spread all around the room to support different room configurations.&nbsp; Or a band or choral competition that could benefit from being able to have one group setting up while the other performs.&nbsp; Those situations traditionally involved physical patching or larger mixers but that can sometimes be replaced with digital snakes and virtual patching with the additional benefits of not only being able to easily save and recall different configuration setups but also possibly reducing the cabling and infrastructure involved.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Brad Weber, post: 65858, member: 114"] Re: X16 Preview That may be the crux of it as "market segment" has little definition, look at the auto industry where just about everyone claims their models to be some kind of leader in their market segment by constantly defining new market segments. So it all comes down to how you define the market segments and not everyone may have the same delineations. Well, you can walk off with the control surface as long as you don't mind not having the trims/gains available, not having any cueing/monitoring, not being able to have a local source, not having talkback and being dependent on a wireless network. That may work for your use but not necessarily for all applications. I also think you may be overlooking some of the potential applications for digital snakes. For example, I work on many venues that in order to provide flexibility in setup want more physical inputs than they will actually use at any one time. Think of something like a small black box theater that might only need 16 channels of mixing but could benefit from having I/O spread all around the room to support different room configurations. Or a band or choral competition that could benefit from being able to have one group setting up while the other performs. Those situations traditionally involved physical patching or larger mixers but that can sometimes be replaced with digital snakes and virtual patching with the additional benefits of not only being able to easily save and recall different configuration setups but also possibly reducing the cabling and infrastructure involved. [/QUOTE]

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