Best budget mixer/audio interface for X1 Mk3 & Maschine Mk3

Kuwar

Hi, I’m looking for a budget mixer with an audio interface to hookup my X1 and Maschine on separate channels on traktor , want to use the x1 as my primary controller and Maschine on a single channel to trigger samples or use as an instrument in a live setup.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

LostInFoundation

Too many to start naming them.

And a lot depends on what you’re after: lowest price? Budget and portability? Maximum number of channels but remaining low price? Faders or only knobs is ok?…

Try do define better your needs and I’m sure users will help you better.

‘Also defining what you mean for “budget” (which range?) could help narrow down the suggestions

Kuwar

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/103316#Comment_103316

Hi ,

These are my priorities :

Budget < 500 USD

Faders would be nice but not opposed to knobs

4 Channels

Fairly flexible on portability form factor

LostInFoundation

Oh ok. For that price range the choice is even wider. A lot to chose from.

For 400-500 You can get mixers that offers a lot more than what you need (more channels, built in FXs,…) and for around 200 you get some with your needs (or even a little more)

As I said, too many to start listing them, but I’ll leave here a suggestion which is practical and even very portable: the Yamaha series is talked as positive and on a very compact form factor offers what you need. This model is just an example, there are many others in the series:

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/AG06MK2B--yamaha-ag06-mk2-6-channel-mixer-and-usb-audio-interface-black

If you wanna invest a little more and have also faders and many more channel/inputs in case in future you’ll need more…:

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/MG12XU--yamaha-mg12xu-12-channel-mixer-with-usb-and-effects

But for the same prices you can even have brands like Allen & Heath, Presonus (for a little more), Mackie, Soundcraft,…