Ultrastudio XLR mic in Fairlight

Please allow the XLR mic on the front of the Ultrastudios to work in Fairlight already, as it does in Avid. This is the single biggest thing that would prevent me using DR for offline. Each and every day on episodic factual broadcast I am required to record guide comm, a lot. I am not asking for ASIO, just that something on your own hardware works, as it should.

This does seem like a no-brainer.

This does seem like a no-brainer.

I know Jim.

Ever since Decklinks first appeared BMD have been alone amongst i/o hardware manufactuers in not being able to deliver a device that can record audio separately. clocked to an internal reference. Aja, Matrox, Bluefish, Avid's own hardware and even OEM branded Avid hardware made by BMD can record a simple guide comm in Avid, Adobe whatever - not DR. No amount of fancy speed editors are going to put DR up there as an NLE in reality, factual and documentary broadcast TV edit facilities, without this and that is a huge part of the market.

Every facility in the UK, I know of (mainly Avid), which may have 20 suites or so will buy an i/o device only, not an additional audio interface. So that means either Aja or Avid DNxID/DNxIO for Avid. My Ultrastudio 4K Mini is almost identical to a DNxID, except with more i/o - yet I have to use a workaround to get it to work in Avid. No such workaround is needed on my current freelance job with DNxID - As I say for BMD's Resolve there is nada . This is baffling to me. Surely someone amongst the many genius's at BMD, including those clever Fairlight fellows can realise this?

This is precisely the situation we have, too. We would have bought Ultrastudio if it worked, but it doesn't, so that sent us roaming around the market looking for decent grade hardware that would work. We found ourselves caught between consumer grade gear (which inexplicably works) or very expensive Fairlight hardware (which we are not going to buy). In spite of many very good interfaces on the market, BM would not point out anything in between that works.

I find it really bewildering that such a basic need is overlooked.

Any change to this yet?