![]() The basic configuration for D Control was 16 faders and a centre section, with the option of having the fader ‘buckets’ positioned on either side of the master module. ![]() Overall, the ICON series sold in the region of 6000 units in the 9-years prior to their Final Sale Date at the end of 2013. Whilst used across professional music, TV and Film post production Icons found their home in television post production, becoming an industry standard the world over. The change in control surface and LED colour layouts having been prompted by feedback on the legibility of text on the lexan, when being read in the low light environment of a studio.ĭ Control and it’s smaller sibling D Command formed, collectively, the Avid ICON series of control surfaces. 6 on D Control, alongside reduced centre section, forgoing the same level of dedicated control to fit a lower price point and much reduced footprint.Īt launch the Avid ICON series shipped in light blue, this changed late in 2007 with the introduction of the espresso black ‘ES’ model. The smaller, fixed format, Control 24 and modular Pro Control helped pave the way for the acceptance and success of a large format ‘console style’ control surface.ĭ Command followed a year behind D Control, having only two rotary encoders per channel vs. Up until the release of D-Control, this development had culminated in the Control 24 and Pro Control, both introduced at a time when the Pro Tools Mix hardware system was growing into the industry standard DAW for music, TV and film post production. Digidesign, at that time an independent audio division of Avid, had been developing hardware controllers for their DAW software for a number of years, their first control surface dating back to the 1994 release of R1, an optional mixing surface addition to the Session 8 system, pictured below. ![]() Introduced in April of 2004 at the AES exhibition in Berlin, the Avid ICON D-Control represented a coming-of-age for control surface technology in the professional audio industry. ![]() Avid D-Control at technicolor Avid Icon Introduction and history ![]()
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