4 Channel mixer Concept

Toltemic

As always- firstly, I'm not affiliated with Native instruments in any way and this a concept idea to promote discussion- This is not a Leak.

If your saw my battle mixer concept, this is his brother.

My concept is a 4+2 channel mixer in club style, with Xone/v10 influences, its double the width of an X1 MK3/Z1 MK2 but same height and depth. I would say this a midi device with an audio interface than a true standalone mixer.

You can probably see there's some personal liberties with the features on this, specifically the alt Knobs, xyz buttons, ISO control, further FX control as well as E/F crossfader

• Alt knob and XYZ buttons

The idea behind this is allow you to have varying control with mixer such as: 4 EQ, Stem control, compression (maybe with the help of Ozone?), tone flavour (radio sim, telephone sim, lo-fi etc), return FX send, stereo separation etc. The XYZ buttons select your option with shift being 3 more options.

• ISO control

This is a master ISO out, I imagine for utility you can change it to a master EQ

• FX control + E/F channel

I've added a data knob to have the ability to scroll and select your FX. Shift will scroll through FX types like group, single, pattern player. However, there's also now line in, mic in, send & return. When set to these options the FX module becomes a mixer channel with basic EQ and volume control- which is where E/F crossfader control comes into play as well as the +2 channel Idea.

ABCD buttons are your FX send buttons

I unfortunately couldn't include XLR master outs due to the size, I also couldn't figure out how to include phono ground 😔

ilove1981

As beautiful as this is, I'm not really a fan of the connectivity and functionality. If I was forced, I'd have to go for your Battle Mixer concept but I would actually much prefer a club mixer style along these lines but with the connectivity of your Battle Mixer, thus also maintaining the best of the features of the current Z2. We can all dream I guess.