In the Production Expert podcast Russ, Julian and Alan look at the new control surfaces announced by Avid. Is the S1 going to find its way onto a desktop near any of them anytime soon?

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Talking Points

• Control Surfaces - With the announcement of the new S4 and S1 what do we think about the current options for Control Surfaces for Pro Tools users and users of all DAWs?

• TIDAL Interactive Credits, like IMDb for music?

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• Russ - Clean My Mac

• Julian - Liquidsonics Seventh Heaven

• Alan - Pro Tools Control on Android

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