The winner is: the Soundcraft Notepad 12FX. Oh, and it had to cost the same or less than I could sell my AD14 for… Soundcraft Notepad 12FX I wanted at least 5 inputs for instruments, and ideally a simple USB audio interface – I wasn’t expecting anything like the quality of the Audient, but just something to get by, jam a bit and maybe record some video performances to illustrate how review (and my own) gear worked together. It is surprisingly hard to jam when you’ve got two inputs to play with, so a small mixer seemed like an obvious solution.
All my proper studio gear is in storage, which means no Saffire 56 + 16 channels of ADAT, no massive controllers or random synths and drum machines.Įxcept, of course, I now have more synths and review items, and I’d like to play some at the same time. I had a Novation Circuit and a Mono Station, an iMac with Cubase and plugins, and an Audient ID14 interface. When I started with this reboot of GeeXtreme, life was pretty simple.
Compact, 12-channel mixer with 4 in, 4 out USB audio interface.Soundcraft Notepad 12FX – £119 – £149 – view offers on Amazon UK
