Using the Keith McMillen K-Mix for "surround" sound

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Is anyone using the K-Mix in one of it’s four surround sound modes?
If so i’d be interested to hear what you think.

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Keith McMillen K-Mix

Additional Background:
It’s nice that the K-Mix has the option, if you want, to split off the bass from all the cumulative surround channels and sending that to a sub-woofer. Plus you can set the crossover frequency.

Something that occurs to me is using a Digitakt or Digitone, (or an Octatrack) and panning some voices hard right and other voices hard left, so that you have two mono channels out and sending that to the K-Mix and using the MIDI out with CCs to control the K-Mix ‘Surround Panner’ angle and radius, or controlling them manually, to ‘swirl’ the sounds. A shifting polymeter phased between the audio and the spatial sound placement would probably sound nice.

This might be a good setup for a computer-free DAW-less surround sound system. You have the potential to have up to four independently moving sounds in the output, sending them out to up to eight speakers, plus the sub.

See section 5.2.3 on page 113 of the K-Max manual (and elsewhere therein) for some more detail.

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WOW! my Ibanez RM80 Mixer keeps losing some channels and I thought about the K-Mix and this is really Great! and the Footprint is Nuts! :slight_smile:

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I had one for a bit but didn’t like the feel of the control surface, it has a strange ‘rubbery’ feel & I’m definitely on some kind of spectrum where that becomes an issue. If the surface was smooth I would still be using it as they are great mixers for a live setup, fairly bombproof design with no knobs to get destroyed when transporting & yes the spatialisation aspect really appealed to me. I would suggest going to a shop if possible to get a feel for it :-).

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Similarly, I had a QuNeo for a minute to map DN/DT mutes and levels and I was off put by the strips. There’s a lot of flexibility in the programming but I wasn’t getting the feedback or response I’d hope for. Granted my QuNeo was second hand so maybe that had something to do with it but even extreme adjustments to the sensitivity didn’t seem to make for reliable feedback. ymmv.

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