However, even some of the smaller details have been really well thought-out.
#ALESIS MULTIMIX 4 USB UPDATE PATCH#
The ability to feed each channel to the computer individually is the most significant feature, as this means that you can patch all of your gear to this mixer and be ready to record anything at the drop of a hat. Happily, the MultiMix 16 USB 2.0 is a product that keeps on giving. When we rebooted Logic with the new buffer size, normal service was resumed, so this isn´t too big a deal, but it could be annoying in a ‘heat of the moment´ session. The only operational niggle we encountered occurred when we reduced the I/O buffer size within Logic to ensure zero latency monitoring - the MultiMix stopped communicating with Logic altogether.
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This means that if you want to capture the internal effects, you´ll only be able to do so by recording the main outs on channels 17 and 18. The only aspects missing from a channel strip signal sent to the computer are auxiliary returns - because auxiliaries are shared, there would be no way to prevent returns from other channels bleeding into your chosen channel. The MultiMix supports audio up to 24-bit/96kHz, and we found the preamps to be clean and eminently useable. So you can plug in and monitor the whole of your band, with multiple inputs for drums, for instance, and record just these by arming only the channels you wish to capture in your DAW software.
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Additionally, however, every single input channel can also be recorded direct-to-disk, giving you a whopping 18 channels of simultaneous audio recording. You might expect a mixer of this type to be able to ship its master output to the computer for real-time audio capture and you´d be right. The ace in the MultiMix´s hand is its USB 2.0 audio functionality.