Mackie VLZ’ss are good portable mixers with some interesting features (alt out is pretty great for sampling etups) but for the same price you can get a Soundcraft EPM12, and between the two I’d take the EPM, the EQ sounds really nice for the price and having faders is great.
They both have their strengths and weaknesses but if I had to choose one it would be the Soundcraft for using at home, no question about it. Better sound, nicer form factor. The one big thing the Mackie has going for it is being able to route any track to the alt outs by muting it, so you can easily set it up so that any muted tracks get sent right to the Digitakt’s sampling input. With the Soundcraft you could send the whole mix to it through the control room outputs (risk of feedback) or use the aux sends (this is what I do, it’s just a little more fiddly if you’re sending stereo signals (not an issue with Digitakt since it all gets summed to mono anyhow), but it’s nice to have control of the levels going to the sampler and you also have inserts on all of the mono channels, so you can send a pre EQ signal to your sampler that way, too. The main thing is that the EQ really does sound good on that thing, the sweepable mid band is really useful (the Mackie doesn’t have a mid band at all).
Behringers are totally fine for the price, too, don’t be put off by the naysayers on Gearslutz.
SOURCE: I got an EPM12 a few years ago and then a couple months later I found a perfectly working VLZ1202 in the trash and have used both a lot.