On Fri, 19 Jun 2015, Felix Homann wrote:
Am 19.06.2015 02:23 schrieb "Len Ovens" <len@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > The line between "audio interface" and "digital mixer" is getting pretty fuzzy. There are a number of Audio interfaces that could also be used live digital mixers. (have eq and effects and can be controlled by a computer GUI) How many are there that you can control from Linux, Android, Windows, Mac and iOS? How many are there that you can control completely via OSC? For my purposes the only alternative to the XR18 I know of would be another Behringer device, the X32 Rack that I had on my shopping list for quite a while last year until I realized that it is too heavy for me: I just would not want to carry it around with me to every show.
In general, the big thing with a digital mixer is lots of mic pre. You have 16. The motu 8M has only 8 but is a class compliant USB2 IF and can be controled by OSC (I downloaded the OSC spec out of interest) or by browser. More pres could be added, but at the expense of lugging more stuff around. I agree that for your purposes The digital mixer is probably better. Certainly the remote gui for linux has got to be better than a browser interface.
I have tried the linux mixer gui for the xr18 and it is better than any of the browser gui I have tried. The android version is not as nice :P
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