Alesis Micron

[Khazul]

BCR may have more knobs, but your going to have to set them up yourself mostly - dunno if sonar 6 does anything to help here.. it might - Behringer sure as hell dont. BCR/BCF are great controllers if you use reason - they have a mackie emulation mode as well - at least the BCF does, but as it doesnt have the HUD, then its usefulness is a bit limited as your never sure what is assigned to what.

I would suggest one of the Novation SL series - Novation do at least have an aim at being a good controller for soft synths. I dont think it does any kind of mackie sim mode, but potentially it could as it has the displays for it - if so - might make a good overall DAW controller as well. Downside - no motorised sliders - need a CME for that.

General winge/rant - WTF cant one of these damn companies actually do a f****** complete job of this??? You know - a decent keyboard with displays and with motorised faders and led ring knobs... FFS!!!

/end rant!