with flightcase.the fw-1884 is a professional daw control surface and audio/midi interface that uses the firewire high-speed data transfer protocol. with firewire's high-bandwidth capabilities, the fw-1884 provides audio and midi interfacing to computers as well as control of daw parameters via eight 100mm motorized touch-sensitive channel faders, one master fader, and controls for pan, solo, mute and select functions on each channel. tactile control for four bands of parametric eq, a jog/shuttle wheel and a variety of shortcut keys for various popular software applications are also included.