Comentário: 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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Além disso, os botões, LED retroiluminado de borracha, embora não seja rebaixada, são escondidos entre o fader e potes. Os potes de forma ligeiramente mais longo pode actuar como um amortecedor, quando a unidade pode ser empurrado, durante a viagem.

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Functionality

Em meu travesseiro fortaleza de esplendor musical e de produção, descobri MIDIMix ser um recurso constante. O script remoto Ableton para o MIDIMix, não era, infelizmente,

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

Close up dos faders e rotativos da Pro MIDImix Akai

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Se você precisa de algo para domar suas mixagens e ... exigem um resistente, pequeno, mesa de mistura, você terá que trabalhar duro para encontrar um melhor!

Mute no MIDIMix são mapeados para os botões de Pista ativador da Ableton, e também pode ser usado como botões Sozinho, quando mantém pressionado o botão SOLO singular, no MIDIMix, em si. Além disso, potes são mapeados para os dois primeiros envios e retornos de cada faixa Ableton, dando-lhe algum do controle sobre seus efeitos. E, claro, se você precisar de mais potes para o seu envia, você sempre pode remapear!

Conclusion

O MIDIMix é um divertimento, console de mixagem acessível, pouco que seja tão confiável quanto ele é robusto. Dá-lhe 9 faders físicos, 24 potes e 20 botões, e todos eles vão resistir ao teste do seu dia a dia, muito bem ... contanto que você

Preço: $ 149 USD

Prós: misturador contínuo, com design sólido e um bom chamariz, em SEND ALL, que realmente vem a calhar.

Contras: Isso é totalmente destinada a Ableton, parece. No Reason arquivo remoto, e pouca documentação em outros DAWs ainda.

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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