Now that I have sung its praises, there are still some things I would like to see changed.
In effects world, the lexicon interface is nice, but some of the parameters are very strangely presented or missing entirely. For instance, all tap delays seem to be 1/4 note, and there is no way to change that.
I have also been having a problem where some FX returns will show up mono (return left channel only), even though they are routed stereo.
In the input stage, there is an analog high pass after the preamp, and another digital one inside the console. I can see why this was done, the analog high pass can prevent the rest of the electronics from overloading where there is the least available dynamic range. It is then cheap and easy to implement a variable high pass in software. This is annoying and unnecessarily complicated, however... for a $80,000 (ish, loaded) console one would think they could have just put a digitally controlled analog high pass in the front end. Or, why not hide the analog high pass and just have it engage whenever the digital high pass is above that corner frequency? Or something that doesn't make me explain that oddity to every band engineer?
Finally, a major pet peeve. The channel labeling is pretty good, 6 characters on the scribble strips and many more at the bottom of the screen for every channel. Unfortunately, the console has no brains about this whatsoever! I have to label each channel twice. One "long label" for the screens, and one "short label" for the scribble strip. Why not do what (cough) Digidesign does very well and make the software smart enough to knock out a few vowels and generate at least a halfway decent short name? This sort of little thing probably takes up half my programming time every time I need to set up the console.