Hey guys. See the post on the DA5 and make some suggestions please.

Fine..........I'll stay out of it!

There is NO REASON FOR YOU TO STAY OUT OF THIS. I hope you are joking. I was just specificly looking for these guys because they hadn't jumped in yet.

Your suggestions are not only welcomed but encouraged. I suspect we'll need 100% participation to have any effect.

Yes, I was kidding. But thanks for your kind words (maybe that's what I was subconsciously fishing for).

See ya at the DA5 thread.

Keyplayer, this thread has already been done more or less. If you do a search you'll find that there have been many suggestions on what everybody would like to have in the da7.
Panasonic does take note of it but I doubt that it well actualy lead to any changes in the 7.

I'm not Eric, but I play him on TV...
(Just kidding)

-Patrick

keyplayer, my personal answer isn't the one you want to hear: my next mixer may well be no mixer!

The reason is that I use Pro Tools for 95% of my mixing anyway, and in some ways the DA7 is overkill. I use it for synths, HUI mode, its high quality monitoring, talkback, routing digital and analog signals (increasingly including softsynths), and for format conversion and a general way of dealing with the various things that come in.And I use its scenes.

What I don't really need is the onboard eq, compression, and automation.

So even though I'm very enthusiastic about the DA7, I'd love to get by without a mixer. But the truth is that the DA7 works too well the way I'm using it to even consider replacing it. What else is there? A Speck mixer would cost more than I could sell the DA7 for, and I'd be giving up all kinds of functions. Another 888/24 8-channel I/O for my Pro Tools system would cost about the same and provide much less - and require starting up the computer every time I want to sit down at a keyboard and try something out.

The truth is that this is the right product at the right price for a lot of applications. I'm not sure there's a big market for $12k mixers anyway.