Review: 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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En outre, les boutons de LED caoutchouteux, rétro-éclairés, sans retrait, sont habilement dissimulés entre le fader et les pots. La forme légèrement plus long Pots peut agir comme un tampon, lorsque l'unité peut être bousculé, au cours de Voyage.

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Functionality

Dans mon oreiller forteresse de la splendeur musicale, et la production, je trouvais MIDIMix être un atout constant. Le script distant Ableton pour la MIDIMix, malheureusement wasn

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

Gros plan sur les faders et les encodeurs rotatifs de la Pro MIDImix Akai

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Si vous besoin de quelque chose d'apprivoiser vos mixages et ... besoin d'une, petite, table de mixage solide, vous aurez à travailler dur pour trouver un mieux!

Mute sur le MIDIMix sont mappés sur les boutons d'activation de piste d'Ableton, et peuvent également être utilisés comme boutons Solo, lors de la tenue sur la touche SOLO singulier, sur la MIDIMix, lui-même. En outre, les pots sont mappés sur les deux premiers départs et retours de chaque piste Ableton, vous donnant une partie du contrôle sur vos effets. Et, bien sûr, si vous avez besoin plus de pots pour votre envoie, vous pouvez toujours reconfigurer!

Conclusion

Le MIDIMix est un amusement, petite console abordable, de mélange qui est aussi fiable que il est robuste. Il vous donne 9 faders physiques, 24 pots et 20 boutons, et tous vont résister à l'épreuve de votre vie de tous les jours, très bien ... aussi longtemps que vous

Prix: $ 149 USD

Plus: mixer solide, avec un design solide et un joli gadget, en envoyer tous, qui n'a vraiment venir dans maniable.

Moins: ce qui est entièrement visent à Ableton, il semble. No Reason de fichiers à distance, et peu de documentation sur les autres stations de travail audionumériques encore.

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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