Hi, Many of our customers do order the Behringer B-Control Fader BCF2000 from us. It's fairly accessible right out of the box and integrates well with CakeTalking. See our page at: www.dancingdots.com/prodesc/MIDIEquip.htm Bill -----Original Message----- From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Josh Stundon Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 11:25 PM To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ddots-l] Control Surface Hello all. I have a few questions regarding a control surface. I will be purchasing sonar 8.5 producer in a few weeks and was wondering which control surface would be the best to get? Does the control surface control different elements of a soft synth such as the filters and other sound effects, or do you need something else to do that like a mixer? If you didn't buy a control surface would it be much harder to produce music in Sonar? Or would the control surface eliminate the need to learn hundreds of keyboard commands? Also, if you weren't happy with a pre set in one of the soft synths and you wanted to tweek it, how would you do that? Can you do that with the control surface or would you have to get a mixer? How big are control surfaces anyway, do they take up a huge amount of space? Also, if I get a control surface do I need an aditional audio interface or sound card to use sonar? or is the control surface the actual audio interface? I've heard of the control surface roland vs700 but are all control surfaces accessible with caketalking and jaws? Any help with this would be much appreciated as I want to purchase the right equipment first and not having to go through a lot of trouble if I bought something, and then realise it doesn't work or it's not accessible, and since I still don't fully understand how a control surface works. I will also get onto dancing dots about this as well. Kind regards, Josh Sent from my iPhonePLEASE READ THIS FOOTER AT LEAST ONCE! To leave the list, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type unsubscribe For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subjectzq or send a message, to ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type faq PLEASE READ THIS FOOTER AT LEAST ONCE! To leave the list, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type unsubscribe For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq or send a message, to ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type faq