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I apologise if this has been answered but I'm pulling my hair out trying to find the truth.

I want to control the volume, pan, solo/mute/record of the Ableton Live 9 mixer with a hands-on, physical device. Mainly for mixing down the final recording.

I know the Korg Nanokontrol is the perfect simple and cheap device.

My question is, my projects are often 16-24 channels; therefore if I purchase multiple Nanokontrols and have them all plugged in individually via USB (I know they can't be daisychained) can I assign them to control channels 1-8, 9-16, 17-24 etc etc?

Failing that, is there another simple and budget USB midi controller with 16+ faders and knobs?

Cheers

Berhinger BCF2000
Novation Zero SL MKII

those will get you part way there...even looking on sweetwater.com there aren't a lot of options that give you everything you want in one box. A lot of the nicer mix controllers will have multiple banks of controls even if they only offer you 8 knobs, 8 faders...they will have 2 or 4 banks...effectively giving you 16 or 32 knobs and faders. Make sense?

Honestly, if you were going to buy a bunch of Nano Controls, I'd rather see you invest in something that is actually worth a damn and going to do what you want : )

I honestly don't know how much mixing "control" you would get using tiny faders like those. :/

NanoKontrols are awesome! I use mine a lot. They are small enough to fit in your laptop bag when you are on the go. I would rather mix with one of those than with a trackpad when I'm on my laptop. Version 1 has 4 scenes, so you could program all of your different midi channels on those. Version 2 has something different. They changed a lot between the versions.

mks wrote:NanoKontrols are awesome! I use mine a lot. They are small enough to fit in your laptop bag when you are on the go. I would rather mix with one of those than with a trackpad when I'm on my laptop. Version 1 has 4 scenes, so you could program all of your different midi channels on those. Version 2 has something different. They changed a lot between the versions.

Ah! Scenes are like banks I assume? Maybe he could get away with one NanoKontrol then.

Yeah, they are like banks with a button to switch between them. They took that feature out of v2 and replaced it with banks that are DAW specific using Mackie Universal Control rather than midi cc's. Version 1 also had MMC, Midi Machine Control which I used to map out transport buttons. Version 1 has 9 faders as opposed to 8 on v2. V2 has more buttons. I have not used v2, so I don't know but I like my v1.