Quote Originally Posted by tekboi
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.
basically a midi controller acts as the main interface between you and your pc, sequences can be recorded that you play via its keyboard into midi tracks within the sequencer and sequencer/software instruments parameters can be alterd with its controls.

The novation controller has a number of template layouts it supports including cubase but you can customise these also, so the sliders might operate seperate volume channels within cubase, knobs assigned to filter controls etc.

there are all sorts of midi control interfaces though that can work together, say if u wanted a master midi controller keyboard for notation input then a second control surface to operate the main sequencer controls on but cost wise, and simplicity wise id say the novation controler would be excellent for you.