BILL HOLLAND: Welcome back to Gearwire.Com. I'm Bill Holland, and we are live in New York at the 2007 Fall AES convention, and I'm here with Jazzmutant with Dexter. And you are?

AXEL DELAFON: Axel Delafon.

BILL HOLLAND: And we are going to look at the Dexter inteface. Let's take a look at this.

AXEL DELAFON: All right. So, what we have here is the Dexter. It's a multi-touch controller, so a multi-touch means that you can use as many fingers directly on the screen. There's no limitation. If you want to use 10 fingers, it basically works the same. It's fully compatible with a Logic, Cubase, Sonar, and Nuendo. So, it's truly plug and play so you don't have to map anything or load any project to the Dexter. As soon as you plug it to Logic or Cubase, basically your project will be loaded into Dexter and you can directly work in it.

So, you can work in 64 different tracks by banks of eight here, so you always have eight tracks displayed on the screen and you can switch from one bank to another using this navigation button here on the top. So, you can easily create groups. So, you can easily create groups. So for instance, if I want to group this track, this track, this track, and these two tracks together, I can just make them as a group and I can call the group back here. I can link them so if I'm modifying one track, I will modify the others and I can solo them all together, remove the solo, and that's it for the group. Basically, you can do everything in a group -- Everything that you can do on the track will be applied to the other basically.

So here, you can also zoom into the faders for more precision. So that means that for instance here, I will press this button, move up, and then the scale of the fader will change so you're basically zooming into the fader for more precision. You can go up to a 10th of a dB so that's very, very precise.

You can directly work on the EQ with your fingers with this, so everything that you're doing on the Dexter is of course duplicated to Logic directly and vice versa. So, if I'm changing -- modifying something on Logic, it will be directly applied on the Dexter. So, when you're modifying something, you will have your value switch in here so you know exactly what values you are adjusting. You can work with the Q here, you can lock a frequency and only work with a gain for instance or do just the opposite, lock the gain and work only on the frequency.

You can access all your effects and plugins directly on the screen so once again you don’t have to load any plugin or effects on the Dexter. As soon as you're up on a project, they will load everything to it. So, you will have all your parameters here. You have a compressor on this track, so I'm adjusting the compressor here, the ratio here, and if you have more than eight parameters per channel then you can switch from one parameter bank to another by pressing this button at the bottom.

You have a page that sums up everything for a track. So, for instance here, we'll have my EQ, my effects, and my surround panning for each track. That's a very nice feature about the Dexter is that you are able to work with surround panning directly with your fingers with every track all together, so that means I can turn them in that space, group them, or expand them. Basically, I can do anything, everything, with automation, so everything that I do with the EQ, with the effects or surround panner will be recorded for automation, so I can play it back later. And that's about it for the main features of the Dexter.

BILL HOLLAND: All right. Well thank you very much. That's awesome, but we'll be back with more from the Fall 2007 AES Convention in New York. This has been Bill Holland. I've been talking to JazzMutant with Dexter. Stay tuned for more on Gearwire.Com.