Reloop Mixage Interface Edition

[Ferdinando Addison]

TheMixage is a brand new compact, budget DJ Midi controller which is reviewed here in its interface edition (ie with a built-in sound interface), but which is also available in a controller edition for those who already have or wish to use an external sound card.

Both the chassis and the top plate are metal, and the limited number of connections, switches and adjusters on the front and back edges nevertheless include a microphone input with level, jog sensitivity (nice) and LED dimmer control (really nice).

When a deck has a track loaded but not playing, the whole jogwheel scratches through the track, ie acts similarly to moving a record with the needle on it quickly. This lets you find the place you want to start at audibly, in order to set a cue point.

Once you have a track playing, however, the jogwheel becomes a nudge wheel: moving it clockwise slightly speeds up the track, and anti-clockwise slows it down. The faster you do this, the more the track deviates from the tempo. This progressive nudge is what allows you to keep two tracks in time easily and is similar to the way vinyl DJs do it.

However, if you press the small button with a record in it above the jogwheel, you enter vinyl emulation mode. This gives the jogwheel a dual use: The metal top-plate allows you to scratch (ie gives you the same function as when paused), but the rubber edge allows you to nudge (ie slow down/speed up the track).

Also, while scratching is progressive (the faster you do it, the quicker the scratch), it is not smoothly so, altering in speed in broad jumps, and if you spin the wheel fast for a vinyl spinback effect, the wheel slows down and stops before the sound does!

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