For Sale: Mackie HUI

[Marc Fisher]

Comes with Midi Cable for connection, original box, manual, product card, and mounting hardware. Works great. no issues afaik. a few buttons have a bit of paint worn a bit, but not completely gone. No problems seeing what they are.

$300 +shipping. 
Or make a serious offer.
listed on FB marketplace as well.

 

Mackie's new Human User Interface, first previewed in SOS January '98, was designed to offer a hardware interface for software‑driven digital audio workstations. Digidesign's Pro Tools 4.1 software is the first to support the device, although Mackie intend that other DAWs will eventually also be able to work with the HUI. So what is HUI for? Well, as most SOS readers will know, Pro Tools' onscreen mixer is normally controlled using your computer's mouse. The problem, however, is that a mouse is far from being the ideal device for controlling a mixing console — it is difficult to drag the faders smoothly, and 'turning' knobs on screen can be awkward, to say the least. Consequently, several hardware controllers have been developed as an alternative to software front‑ends over the years, including models from Penny & Giles and JL Cooper: all of these, however, offer only a limited number of controls compared with the HUI, which seeks to give the operator hands‑on control of virtually all of Pro Tools' mixing and editing parameters, as well as a full set of transport and locator controls. At first glance, the control surface looks rather like a compact digital mixer, with eight assignable faders, associated Select switches, and an electronic 'scribble strip' which picks up the channel names from your Pro Tools project and displays these handily above the faders. This feature alone won my instant approval! The faders are motorised so they move to reflect automatically the positions of Pro Tools' onscreen faders. The HUI also has a built‑in meter bridge with eight pairs of dual LED 'ladders'. With mono Pro Tools tracks, only the left LED 'ladder' lights up, while both are used with stereo channels. Having these meters just where you need them is great, especially if you are using the ADAT Bridge interface, for instance, which, unlike Digidesign's 888 I/O hardware, doesn't have any meters.