the DM1000 is a very impressively specified console, offering broadly similar facilities to the 02R96 in a smaller frame — including 96kHz sampling without compromising the number of channels or processing facilities. The DM1000 has fewer analogue and digital I/Os than its bigger brother, slightly less DSP power, and a much more compact control surface with fewer physical controls. However, the console also boasts some I/O facilities not seen on other DM-series consoles. It runs a slightly more sophisticated operating system providing several theatre and broadcast-related features as standard that only become available to the DM2000 and 02R96 with a cost upgrade to the new v2 operating system.