Just curious, which features work best on the Impulse series? I looked at those briefly but saw some direct comparison with the remote and I don't think the key bed is the same quality (plus of course the MKII has the stick I wanted, particularly since mod action can be switched to snap back or not).
I would have still been happy with the MKII as a controller even if I never got Automap fully working, but now it's particularly nice because I can just press the mixer button to control tracks with the faders and mute them with the button underneath (very handy).
FLStudio actually did start as kind of a "hobbyist" DAW, a program with a stupid name called Fruity Loops. Of course it's come a long way and is now pretty much as full featured (if not more so) than Cubase/Ableton et al, and used by lots of professionals, but the stigma always seems to remain. I think part of that is because the developers were game developers in a previous life, so they try to make the DAW entertaining through use of silly animations and such. Its really kind of a remarkable piece of software, but the bulk of it is maintained by one guy and I'm not sure that he could accommodate compatibility with every software add-on or hardware controller out there even if he tried. Their policy of "buy once, upgrade free forever" is a great value but also comes with some tradeoffs in terms of features and so forth.
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