aperçu des fonctions =>
Reading through the manual and there’s a lot to love about this thing. Will ‘live comment’ bits that stand out and aren’t included in the article/video:
* 8 page table of contents in the manual. Respect!
* Inputs 1-2 can accept instrument level (‘low z’) inputs as well as line level inputs
* Inputs 3-8 can accept phono inputs (RIAA preamps built in)
* All I/O is via balanced connections
* The outputs can be set up for ‘surround’ mixing.
* The panners can work for stereo or a few different surround models
* “The headphone jack can also function as its own discrete stereo output bus (9/10), or be used as a low frequency crossover output when mixing in surround.”
* You can choose to monitor any input (pre fader) or any individual output bus via the headphones
* iPad is supported (can’t power it though)
* OSX from 10.6
* “K-Mix will function as a MIDI device when connected to a Windows computer, but audio I/O
functionality is not supported”
* You can power it from either USB port
* Sends can be pre/post fader. This can be set on the hardware.
* ^ Same for the internal reverb send
* Sends have a pan control per Aux pair. So you can get signal to any discreet output but looks like you can’t have, say 100% level to out 3 and 20% level to out 4—it’d be 80/20.
* The main output bus has it’s own DSP strip (auxes do not)
* Each channel has a sweepable HPF (aka low cut) but it can only be set via software. Cool that it’s sweepable, sad that it’s software only.
* EQ is semi-parametric: sweepable high and low shelves plus a sweepable mid (with full Q). 18db cut/boost on each.
* Reverb has a pre-delay and a max delay time of 5s
* In addition to the 12 presets, there is a “reset” button to normalize the entire machine. Amen.
* MIDI controller settings are _not_ saved in the preset. There are three banks for storing MIDI send settings and that’s it.
* Shift + top of fader = solo. Shift+bottom=mute.
* Faders can be grouped (groups set via software only)
* USB Audio from the computer can either be mixed on the mixer (taking over the analog inputs to the channels) or simply summed and piped out the outputs (so you can have both at the same time)
* an onboard 40hz-4000hz test tone generator is coming in the next version
RE: MIDI (direct copy and paste from the manual):
• When connected to a computer, MIDI can be sent from the computer to K-Mix for
controlling nearly all of K-Mix’s audio parameters; this allows for fully automating your K-Mix!
• When using K-Mix with the optional KMI MIDI Expander, MIDI coming into the Expander can also be used to control K-Mix’s audio parameters, allowing you to control K-Mix from external MIDI hardware.
To me that sounds like cheap used Korg NanoKontrols will allow you to have fixed control over sends or pans or whatever. Plus fun stuff like LFO automation from a sequencer. Everything, including effects params, can be controlled via standard CC. Inputs 1-8 are MIDI chans 1-8, mains is channel 9 and the rest (auxes..) is channel 10.
Signal Flow Diagram:
http://www.keithmcmillen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/kmix-signalflow_diagram.pdf
Tech Specs
http://www.keithmcmillen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/kmix_techspecs.pdf