Richard Thomas Posted July 24, 2016 Report Share Posted July 24, 2016 Here's a small, DC powerable (USB, 5V) digital mixer. 8 in, 10 out (2 outs are the headphone jack, but can but used as mix outs) with EQ, FX and pretty much anything routable to anything. Ins and outs are all analogue and it's even possible to do surround mixes (!). It also works as an audio interface Something which might be a bit of an issue for mixing is the lack of physical feedback- all the controls are touch sensitive strips. I've got one of their keyboards and it seems to be rather well made, however I see the mini USB connections as a definite weak point https://www.keithmcmillen.com/products/k-mix/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Perkins Posted July 24, 2016 Report Share Posted July 24, 2016 Someone will try this on a cart for sure. Any notion of how good the mic amps are? Yes, tough to mix on it while eyes are on a monitor, but you could prob figure it out with practice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Thomas Posted July 24, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2016 2 hours ago, Philip Perkins said: Someone will try this on a cart for sure. Any notion of how good the mic amps are? Yes, tough to mix on it while eyes are on a monitor, but you could prob figure it out with practice. I'm wondering if that someone might be me as a bit of a stopgap before sonosax sort out a fader surface for the R4+ There's a bit more on the preamps here- 60dB clean gain and flat to 40kHz:https://www.keithmcmillen.com/blog/k-mix-µpre-audio-test-videos/ Limiters are digital, though so can overload pre-ADC Here's another way of mixing....https://www.keithmcmillen.com/blog/k-mix-api-part-2-controlling-k-mix-leap-motion-web-midi-api/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundtrane Posted July 24, 2016 Report Share Posted July 24, 2016 latency etc should be checked on i know keith mc for a long time (not him personally) he does come out with some interesting stuff, but whether it actually works well in the field and if it does any caveats etc, i have not cared to check. just sayin'... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Thomas Posted July 31, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2016 Well, I've bought one (mainly for non-production sound reasons), however I was pretty impressed with it. The faders are really responsive, there's a 'track' under where your fingers go with an indent at 0dB and you can mix by feel. The LEDs aren't really readable in direct sunlight, which may not be too bad if you're metering on something else. It takes a bit of getting your head around some of the settings (such as headphone monitoring) too, and figuring out 'where' you are and you do need the manual to get going - a few functions need to use the 'shift' key and figuring out what is what with some fx/pan settings. I've not plugged any mics in but it seems to sound good on line level sources- headphone amp seems decent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mobilemike Posted July 31, 2016 Report Share Posted July 31, 2016 Looks cool. If it had digital inputs so I could use my own pres and converters I would snap this up in a heartbeat! -Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Thomas Posted July 31, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2016 1 minute ago, Mobilemike said: Looks cool. If it had digital inputs so I could use my own pres and converters I would snap this up in a heartbeat! -Mike) It'd be lovely if it has AES3 in and out on it (to reduce the number of conversions if anything) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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