Hot on the heels of Novation’s Remote SL Mark II series of keyboard controllers comes M-Audio’s latest attempt to wrest back control of this heavily contested territory. Like Novation, M-Audio have watched as producers and music makers have become more demanding about the number of controls they want to have direct access to from the front panel of their controller keyboards and have responded accordingly. So, within a month of the new Remote SLs hitting the shop-floors, here is M-Audio’s Axiom Pro which offers its own take on full DAW integration, with a fair few tricks up its sleeve. Get ready to rumble…

 

Author   Jon Buchanan   Issue   Future Music 06/2009   number of pages   1