Fairlight Desktop Console: A more affordable option?

I have an Editor Keyboard and love it. I love my Speed Editor for traveling.
I also have a Micro Panel for color that I can't believe I waited so long to get.
All of them have made editing a blast, and I'm a lot faster.

If you can't tell, I'm very tactile, so I wanted an audio panel with physical faders. I can't afford the Fairlight Desktop Console at $3500, so I went with a MIDI panel for $600, and it's been a PITA to get set up. Since some of the buttons rely on MIDI commands (ie to launch the EQ), I can't do a lot of things I'd like to do, etc.

The reason I got the Micro Panel is I'm an editor not a colorist and I can't afford the Mini Panel. Sure, it doesn't have all the features of its big brother, but the Micro Panel fits my needs perfectly, it fits my desktop area perfectly, and at a price that my accountant won't shoot me over. Not to mention that setting up each of my BMD panels to work in Resolve was a total breeze.

I'm not a sound designer, and I can't justify shelling out $3500 for the Fairlight Desktop Console. Any chance of Grant and the rest of the folks at BMD realizing that a lot of people like me would jump at the chance to pick up a mini version of the Fairlight Control Panel with some reduced functionality (fewer faders, for instance) and a smaller footprint for $500-$1000?

Have you tried using CommandPost? It may help with midi mapping your audio controller, but you did not say what product you purchased.
https://commandpost.io/

Unfortunately, CommandPost is Mac only and I'm on PC. The controller I got is the Icon P1M.

Folks have suggested the same before, Bruce, I have too... so far no luck tho.
For re-mapping Midi controls, the third party tool Bome Midi Translator is a powerful option ... if you're inclined toward that sort of thing.

My two cents after years of fiddling with 3rd party hardware:

The midi implementation of DVR is very basic and allows for transportation control plus some automation settings and fader control, nothing else.
With a software like Bome MT it gets a bit more interesting, because it can turn incomming midi commands into key presses, mouse commands or a sequence of those. The trick here is to map the relevant functions in DVR and control them via macros from BMT.
But even with this, you will not be able to open an EQ. To do this, you need to know a) which track is selected b) where is it on my screen and c) where do I need to click to open the EQ of this track. You can do this with AHK and some programming skills.

Thanks. I'll check out Bome.