D8B

Hello all, Just wanted to let you D8B owners that I successfully hacked my D8B... My goal is to convert my D8B to a full fledged DAW controller (I'd like to use it with Nuendo in my case). I want to bypass all of Mackie's layers and access the board directly...

...so bad you shouldn't throw your hard earned cash in their general direction. There are some hacks to get an old d8b or Procontrol / control24 to work with any daw as well. But the idea of buying something with 20 year old electronics and motorfaders inside it doesn't appeal at all. On top of these...

...“spike”. Since I don’t use a standard DAW but like the older sound of the Mackie D8b (I don’t recommend these units as they’re very temperamental) my tastes might not translate well to what your have. That being said, the Voxbox has considerably more advantages to the Core because of the EQ and compression...