Greg Ferguson
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Several years ago that was definitely the problem, but Morningstar (and other companies) has done a lot of work building up its configuration software to help improve the integration with Fractal's MIDI implementation. Older reviews and comments are very likely based on old experiences and should be taken with a grain of salt. "The Internet never forgets" is often a bad thing.Not as easy to get it setup as it looks, needs a lot of tweaking, understanding and work to make it work properly. I have read pretty much every post about them, that is what I understood among the good things
When the FM3 came out I had an MC6 already and decided to try using it with the Fractal. I got it working but not in the way I wanted to; The MIDI units assumed they were the boss, and Fractal's hardware is designed so that the modeler is in control so trying to resolve the difference was difficult. Eventually, I got tired of the struggle and switched to the FC-6 and, from my experience, the FC units are the best choice for full integration with the modelers, for obvious reasons. A MIDI device still takes more configuring than the FC, which can be plugged in, the appropriate layout selected, and it just works. From that point, you can learn and tweak at your leisure.
If I was to use a MIDI unit, I'd consider the MC8 first knowing they've done a lot to improve their software. When I had my MC6 I felt it was too cramped for my size feet, and the display lacked the information I wanted. I really like the switch spacing on the FC units though, so I'd want something closer to their size and spacing hence my leaning toward the MC8.
That was the breaking point for me; I could get the MC6 to tell the modeler to do something, but getting it to show me the current state of the effect blocks drove me crazy. It was a no-brainer with the FC.Did Morningstar ever add the ability to sync effects block status as you change presets and scenes? That's a big shortfall of a lot of 3rd party controllers without dedicated Fractal functionality.