Comentario: Akai Pro MIDImix

Small, compact, solid and as far from expensive as you can get. The new Akai Pro MIDImix promises to be a worthy mixer for Ableton Live producers and G. W. Childs investigates how it fares.  

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Akai Pro MIDImix

Akai Pro MIDImix.

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Además, los botones LED de caucho, con iluminación de fondo, si bien no empotrada, son hábilmente escondidos entre el fader y ollas. La forma ligeramente más largo Pots puede actuar como un tampón, cuando la unidad puede ser empujado, durante el viaje.

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Functionality

En mi fortaleza almohada de esplendor musical, y la producción, encontré MIDIMix ser un activo constante. La secuencia de comandos remota Ableton para el MIDIMix, por desgracia no era

Close up of the faders and rotary encoders of the Akai Pro MIDImix

Primer plano de los faders y encoders del Pro MIDImix Akai

Por supuesto, los faders don

Si usted necesita algo para domar sus mezclas y ... necesita un robusto,, escritorio pequeña mezcla, usted tendrá que trabajar duro para encontrar uno mejor!

Botones de silencio en la MIDIMix se asignan a los botones Track Activator de Ableton, y también se pueden utilizar como botones en solitario, cuando mantiene pulsado el botón SOLO singular, en el MIDIMix, sí. Además, las ollas se asignan a los dos primeros envíos y retornos de cada pista Ableton, dándole parte del control sobre sus efectos. Y, por supuesto, si usted necesita más ollas para su manda, siempre se puede volver a asignar!

Conclusion

El MIDIMix es una diversión, poco consola asequible, mezcla que es tan fiable como es robusto. Le da 9 faders físicos, 24 ollas y 20 botones, y todos ellos van a resistir el paso de su vida diaria, muy bien ... siempre y cuando

Precio: $ 149 USD

Pros: mezclador sólido, con un diseño sólido y un buen truco, en SEND ALL, que realmente no son útiles.

Contras: Este está dirigido enteramente a Ableton, parece. No Reason archivo remoto, y poca documentación sobre otras aplicaciones musicales todavía.

Web: http://www.akaipro.com/product/midimix

Sound Designer, Musician, Author... G.W. Childs has worn many hats. Beginning in the U.S. Army back in 1991, at the age of 18, G.W. began learning electronics, communications and then ultimately audio and video editing from the Department of Defense. Upon leaving the military G.W. went on to work for many exciting companies like Lu... Read More

Discussion

Jay Asher
Can I assume that if all I really want is for the faders to send cc 11 this will work fine with Logic Pro X?
Gwchilds
Hey Jay,

Just assigned it to various parameters in Logic Pro X with no difficulty. You should have no problems! :)
Jay Asher
Thanks G Dub, I am on this.
Frank
I have yet to see a review that really makes sense of the Send All button.What you have mentioned in this review doesn't really make much logical sense either:

-"zeroing current mixes" How ?! Like, by the time you have set all your controls to default/zero on the hardware to send it by the button, you already have zeroed your mix because each time you moved a knob/fader the software has followed so no need to send it anymore!
- "returning settings back to original placements from the night before" - How would that work in reality ? So you would have memorized all the settings on the hardware, then dial them all in on the hardware, then fire up the computer and then send them ? Or is this to describe a scenario where you had decen settings but from a point on didn't use the hardware anymore at all but only the mouse and then later want to revert back to the hardwarw settings ? I don't understand..
- "a cool way of experimenting" Yeah, maybe, except you might experience some sudden and very loud volume jumps that might or might not blow your speakers..

Honestly, all above scenarios don't sound very realistic at all, to be honest they even sound a bit like you just made them up to make some sense of that button ;) I mean, even Akai themselves haven't managed to come up with a real life example where that button could really be helpful.I think it's rather a gimmick they included in order to have *something* to differentiate this product from others no matter how much sense it makes..

Not saying this is a bad product; in fact i think it can be pretty awesome when combined with that Isotonik script that really enhances it's capabilities: http://isotonikstudios.com/sigabort/akai-midimix-xl/

That way, you'd have almost the capabilities of a Launch Control XL for roughly half the price :)
Decent at Best
Would you happen to know if the controls are assignable to parameters in Maschine?

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