Gary,

Are you stating that Mackie is making mixers for M-Audio? When this news broke a couple months back, there was no indication that Mackie was given the key. In fact, the scuttlebutt with existing Mackie customers was that Mackie took a huge risk spending so much development time trying to decipher the entry way into the Avid world; whilst abandoning their loyal Tracktion customers.

Avid has had their own mixers/consoles for quite awhile from the 02 series up to the top-deck ICON consoles - no ties to Mackie whatsoever.

If there is some kind of cooperation, it's certainly a one-way relationship in favor of Avid. Can't find any reference to Mackie products on the Digidesign site nor the M-Audio sites.

Perhaps you've got some inside source of info I haven't seen. The NRV10 mixer from M-Audio seems to be much more feature packed than similar offerings from Mackie, and it's been around since 2007. I don't know, I just don't see Mackie/Loud getting into bed with Avid, but I could be wrong. I never thought Mackie would jack around it's customers like it has with it's Tracktion customers.

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