Is the Novation Remote 25 midi controller better for hardware or software or is it a beautiful that suits both hardware and software. I roughly know what a midi controller is but if someone can just go into a little more detail on what the controller does it would be helpful :)

Also does the midi controller enable me to work off that rather than the knobs on the cubase platform, I mean do I need to get a seperate knob controller box so I can control the knobs in real time rather than from the cubase platform with my mouse? Or is this what the midi controller does?

I hope this makes sense, get back to me on this guys, thanks for all the feedback so far, I have only been mixing for the time being, so I am new to the production side of things but very interested.