Icon Platform M+ 5-stars Reviews

Lovely Midi Controller

I was looking for something in budget with motorized faders.

Its a great midi tool for using it as a mixer ( Ableton allready has the midi map built in so its just plug n play) I want the faders so i could know anytime where my automations etc are so i don't have to "reset" everytime the faders

Perfect controller

faders feels fantastic, awesome features, it looks really nice, all the buttons feel high quality. Had it for almost a year now and very happy with it

Exponentially speeds up your workflow

I have one of these permanently on my desk. It synchronizes with my DAW (Reaper) almost perfectly. The one issue I have is that I cannot get the zoom buttons to work. That's not really a problem for me, as I have set one of my extra mouse buttons to function as a "ctrl" button so I can zoom both horizontally and vertically with my mouse. I mention it here as it may annoy other users who don't have that mouse configuration. (I've deducted one star on handling to reflect this).

The faders have a really nice quality feel to them, and have just the right amount of sensitivity for me. The rotary encoders have a good feel to them and make it easy to position tracks in a stereo mix or hard-panning duplicate guitar tracks. The record arm / solo / mute / track select buttons are really handy, and backlit so you can quickly see which set of controls relates to an active track. It can get a bit confusing when using 2nd and 3rd banks (I've not needed to go as far as the 4th yet!) so being able to keep track of things is important.

The transport buttons are brilliant, it's really useful to have them at your fingertips. I've recently started taking audio samples from news stories to use in my music, and having these transports has made it much easier to navigate through a sound sample to snip out the exact part I want. The addition of the "mixer" button, whose function depends on your DAW, is really helpful here - in the case of Reaper, the mixer button places down a marker.

The jog wheel has a sturdy feel to it and is useful for scrubbing through tracks. Combined with the mixer button you can easily lay down accurate placement markers.

I've not used the "read" or "write" functions on the unit yet, so I won't comment on those.

My desk setup includes a ShuttlePRO v2 with some common shortcuts assigned to it. Combined with the Platform M+, I have all the common DAW controls under my fingertips. I can definitely recommend the Platform M+ for a mixing desk setup.

Better than I have expected

I like mostly everything about this thing, but I really dislike the plastic faders and knobs.

Pros:

Solid build

Good workflow

Very good quality jog wheel

Cons:

Plastic knobs and faders

Great Daw Controller

i'm loving this controller very much, and it's a great thing that you can add more modules to it.

Analog feel

I love the analog feel when balancing all the elements in a mix. It works perfectly with Logic Pro X and these motorized faders are amazing.

WOW

It changed my workflow, mixing speed... I am amazed.

Great quality, it looks like it will last forever. Mainly it's built from really good plastic. Heavy and small footprint.

4 stars for handling only because it lasted to set it up and adjust parameters to my workflof but that could be me.

Excellent value for money. Good build quality

This device does what I wanted and has a lot of extra features I did not expect.

Never having used motorised faders before, but realising I wanted them (based on using a Korg nanControl - which is an excellent piece of kit) I bought this. It is excellent.

Being able to mix tracks and jump back and forth along the row of tracks while having the faders follow and match the DAW faders is so awesome! Them being touch sensitive is a major part of that. Being able to easily adjust multiple track levels with just my fingertips is fantastic. Having the pan pots right there is great, and their 'return to 0 centre' feature when pressed is more useful that I could have imagined.

Having the transport controls right there is great. The jog wheel is, again, more useful that I would even have believed.

The built quality is great, and mine has no wobble. The buttons all work as expected. Having all the mute/solo/record buttons right there is great.

Two small things: the lights under the buttons are very bright. I would welcome a way to dim them. And, in Logic I have swapped the 'mixer' and 'write' buttons as I didn't want to lose 'latch' (which is what the 'mixer' button actually defaults to.

Overall, excellent value for money. I have adapted so quickly to using the device for mix navigation that I will certainly buy the D2 display panel, and will seriously consider expanding this device to have more physical faders.