Note that I said possibly, I have no evidence to back that possibility up it’s just something to consider.
Sometimes decisions not to implement something that is technically straightforward are driven by many other business factors.
The LS9 comparison is not exactly apples to apples as once you’ve bought the LS9 you have a contol surface already and there are no options otherwise, MIDI is just remote control.
DLive is an unusual beast in this respect with the console in reality being the mixrack rather than the surface and that makes a full MIDI implementation different to most consoles.
A&H has the business need to drive sales of DLive surfaces, if you can build a surface equivalent with cheap commodity MIDI controllers then there will be some loss of surface sales.
Yamaha is also a much bigger company that A&H (and its parent) so business decisions may be different.
The news of some well known names at A&H being made redundant this week makes me think their priorities right now will be generating revenue and anything which might be counter productive to that won’t happen.
Again I have no evidence that this is the reason we don’t see all of the feature requests granted, I’m just saying we need to consider that some decisions will be based on a whole bunch of factors that we as the consumer will never see directly.
