Hi there. I'm Jeff Rona. I'm a composer.
I'm here in Los Angeles in my studio.
You know, my career
in film and television scoring
started in the nineties,
and like a lot of the composers
working professionally in those days,
my studio was just filled with
racks of synthesizers and samplers
and what have you. But,
by around 2000, I really wanted to make a transition
to this new thing of working in the box,
working entirely with plug-ins.
And it worked for a while,
but it was always a bit awkward
until something really changed.
And what changed was Mackie control.
Mackie came out with the very first
hardware interface with moving faders,
motorized faders that could control
plug-ins in your computer.
And it felt like working on a console.
It felt so professional
and having that kind of tactile
control and response and feedback
made working with plug-ins possible.
I got the first Mackie control.
I have worked with Mackie products
and it is absolutely a life changing part,
game changing part of music production,
whether it's for record producing, film scoring, TV scoring.
Mackie was the company that really
invented the hardware, software, hybrid studio
and by hardware, and I just mean
the ability to control software
with your hands, with, with touching a surface.
The Mackie Interface protocol
is still the one that every,
every product out there uses.
Mackie is easily the most innovative company
in the history of music production to think
about how hardware makes, still makes a difference,
even if you're running a completely virtual studio.
So my hat's off to Mackie
and their absolute innovation
of making an in-the-box
virtual studio possible to this day.
So thank you, Mackie.