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WAVES FIT CONTROLLER
Waves Senior Product Manager, Yaniv Litmanovitch discusses the FIT Controller, a surface co-engineered by Waves Audio and MIDIPLUS to offer live sound engineers hands-on control of the Waves eMotion LV1 live software mixer.
What was the original goal of the FIT Controller? As a policy, Waves is always open to suggestions and feedback from our community of users. Within our large community of LV1 users, we were frequently requested to provide a tactile controller that will integrate into the eMotion LV1’s workflow. These users specifically wanted a hardware anchor to the LV1’s touchscreen-based interface and, in addition, users requested that it be as compact and robust as possible.
dedicated ‘Touch-n-Turn’ rotary encoder, which will control any parameter that’s selected on the screen. Also, the LV1’s User-Assignable Keys and Mute groups are always accessible with the ‘User’ toggle option, and FIT has its own dedicated Three User-Assignable Keys that can be set to a specific function out of a long list of options. How long did it take to bring the FIT Controller to the market? It took us a little over a year. We were forced to adapt to the COVID-19 limitations, which created quite an inevitable setback.
What parameters are you able to control with the surface? Naturally, you can control all the faders for all of the LV1’s channels and mix busses, and their corresponding Mute/Solo/Cue/Pan/Gain/Select parameters as well; you can easily toggle between factory layers 1-8 and custom layers 1-8 and spill the DCA groups; you have control over Send levels with ‘fader-flip’ options, tap a tempo and save a new scene; there is a
Could you walk me through Waves’ collaboration with MIDIPLUS in developing the product? What was the discussion process? At the start, we took a few months to plan the device, focusing initially on design iterations for layout sizes and functionality. At that stage, working 72
