I like FaderPort because it increases my work quality and speed. I spend less time going over and over doing clean up work when doing vocal moves and other trickier, split-second mix changes. The touch-sensitive Alps fader feels and works just like the faders on high-end studio consoles and uses a dual-servo belt-drive motor design that is fast and smooth.

There are also buttons for quickly scrolling through and selecting banks of tracks--just click on another track in the group of eight and FaderPort's fader jumps to that track's level. By quickly (faster than a mouse) moving from track to track, FaderPort makes it easier to balance drum kit tracks, background vocals or multi-keyboard productions.

There are automated fader mode buttons such as Read, Write, Touch, and Off and you can solo any track and automate mutes. I've wished for a real Pan control knob every time I tried to affect a smooth pan by click-dragging a small onscreen knob using a mouse. Arrg! FaderPort's continuous Pan pot control makes my wish come true!

With extensive transport controls, quick keys for changing window views in your DAW program and a Trns button that calls up the transport window, a Shift key for another layer of controls for setting and recalling markers, the Undo/Redo button, FaderPort has covered all the onscreen needs of the modern DAW user.