I thought I would give a quick update on this.
Nothing much has happened on the install as I had a last-minute design change on my sound control panels, and ended up getting some made to order panels that should be with me sometime this week.
In the meantime I took the desk apart and experimented with a few things I had been thinking about incorporating.
I'll add pics when it's finished ...
Bruce from CMB Integrations is helping me to not only incorporate Meridian into the recording system part of my room, but to also use Meridian to control basic operating functions of the whole system

Next step is to "customize" the DSP5000s ...