The first entertaining thing launched at AES is the Smart Console - a huge, certain-to-be-absurdly-expensive control surface. The big design thing is an enormous curving meterbridge with a virtual touch-sensitive scribble strip. You write on the scribble strip and it appears (hand written) in glowing green beneath the relevant channel strip (No, I'm not sure why the person in the pics seems to be writing in Klingon. Oh, hang on, it's a picture of a guitar!). Best of all, it comes from Australia, home of the Fairlight. It's a bit more impressive than a FaderFox. More