After a lot of debate, I bought just the console in this excellent package. I will pair it up with the Roland Fantom G6, and I already have Sonar X1 Producer (as well as 8.5) - and I have enough I/O options already - though the V-Studio 700 I/O is very nice. I didn't like the cooling fan in it though. I save about $1300, and get the console alone for $1954 - expensive, but what can one do? Watch for it now to be discontinued and blown out for cheap!!! In the end - I just wanted that control surface BAD.
I started back trading stocks on 8/11/2011 - and I've made a lot of money in the market since. So I decided to buy myself some rewards. I'd have done even better had I stayed in AVID. I was in that thing at 6.08!!!
Yep - just arrived. I won't have time to play with it till February - but it's going to be nice to have - a dream piece of equipment. Right now, I don't have a surface to put the thing on. So I'll have to prepare an area for this thing.