Modular Setups

The Behringer controllers aren’t out yet, bear that in mind…

There is no official date yet.

Jake Robinson, post: 28382, member: 2223 wrote: any suggestions on what mixer?

That is entirely a personal decision based on what you want to spend and what you want to do with it. Some features to look for: good vu’s on each channel (I miss this most when I’m using my all-in-one unit), good soundcard that is compatible with your software of choice (unless you want to go really modular and have this separate too), effects that are useful to you (it doesn’t matter how many effects a mixer has if you won’t use any of them).

Basically, you need to get your hands on different models and see what you like the feel of. I personally have a Denon X1600 in my modular setup and love it – but it might not be at all useful to you.

Good luck with your search!

you also want an “effects send/return”. With it you can hook up things like the pioneer EFX, RMX, Kaoss Pad and route the signal to individual channels.

If you really want to go all out you can use a windows netbook running ableton for effects and run that through the effects loop 😉

The best $1000ish mixer IMO is the allen & heath xone 92 as it sounds fantastic, has 4 bands of eq to really shape the sound, midi messages on almost all the controls and the filter is the best in the business.

it’s the same as USB, but you do need a midi to usb converter to get it in your computer.

The only real use for the midi on it is to map the crossfader if you are doing video performances, but you could run the whole thing as a midi controller if you wanted, but then you have just wasted all the expensive engineered circuitry that makes the Xone sound so good.