Yeah you might not get all the time you want on the state of the art goodies but I personally didnt care. At the time and still currently i would rather go home and work on Cubase with reaktor, battery and my MS2000 than those F-ing SSLs. THey are great and very versitile for recording but a great MIDI studio kicks its ass. I just don't like large format consoles. I would much rather have a tight dmxr100 or O2R system any day of the week. But that's just me.