The “most recent” Reloop product that’s made for djay was the Mixtour Pro and it’s already looking really good! I don’t have it but judging from videos and reviews online, I think it’s interesting!
The problem is, it’s advertised as a 4 deck controller but only features 2 channels for them.
I feel like if you want to have an easier time mixing with 4 decks/channels, then you need to have 4 channels on the mixer.
Hi @Nguy_n_Nam, I do not have any insider information regarding future hardware development at Reloop. However, given that the Mixtour Pro was co-designed by Laidback Luke specifically to be ultra-portable, I suspect a version with 4 physical channels is unlikely. You never know though - would love to be proven wrong. Maybe we’ll have some good news from NAMM in 2 weeks…
Also, I personally own a Mixtour Pro, and I find the toggle from Deck 1/2 to 3/4 to work quite well for 4 deck mixing. However, I mainly use Deck 3 for the odd Acapella and rarely mix with all 4 Decks at once.
Your intuition is correct. However, I cannot imagine that there is a version with four channel strips. That would compromise the concept of the Mixtour/Mixtour Pro. But as before: one never knows…
I would like to go on record that I’d love a 4 channel Mixtour Pro. I have a Roland dj-505 for Serato and even though it’s advertised as a 4 deck controller, without the extra faders etc for the other channels I have never gotten the hang of it and I don’t even attempt 4 decks on it anymore.
I’d say that there is definitely a market for a small modular 4 deck controller. But for Reloop, my solution would be to be able to link two Mixtour Pros together.
I would love a 4 channel version of the Mixtour Pro. I imagine it would be the size of two Mixtours next to each other. Still small enough to drop into a backpack together with an iPad.
Alternatively, it would be nice if you could daisychain two mixtours together through the usb-c port.
Thanks for sharing @Chris_R @BillPayer and @Kikeon. You could definitely use 2 Mixtour Pros side by side with djay and have one set to Deck 1/2 and the other to Deck 3/4. You cannot, however, daisy chain them to each other - you will need to connect them to your device directly or through a power USB hub.
Interesting, did not think about it this way. So you could use 1 as a controller/soundcard, and the other just as a controller.
Exactly! Just note that on iOS, you cannot manually choose which device acts as the soundcard. I can’t remember now how this works, but it’s either the first one connected or the last one connected that djay on iOS uses as the audio output.
Unfortuantely, there are no news about a potential new version of the Mixtour Pro…
There weren’t even that much news about compact and modular units…
As I suspected… more DJ gear announcements than I was expecting though.
You could possibly buy 2?
Exactly. Already mentioned above
I’ve been thinking about this, as I’m currently looking at changing my setup. I’ve come over from Serato and have been using my Roland DJ-505 with an ad-hoc midi map for Djay.
I love the look of the Mixtour pro, and the modular setup of the Mixtour pro plus two Denon LC6000s. But I also use vinyl, so I’m looking at replacing my Roland controller and adding one of the new Allen & Heath Xone:24C mixers.
I just can’t visualise how this would all work. Could the Mixtour pro control 4 channels and the Allen & Heath control two of the channels as DVS or analogue vinyl channels?
I think for a setup like this, you’d be better off with a 4-channel DVS mixer like the Xone:96 or Reloop RMX-95.
And still use the Mixtour Pro as a controller in this setup with a 4 channel mixer? I don’t use vinyl very often at all, but I would want it as an option. I was even thinking of one setup that I could use with vinyl and one setup to be used digitally.
No, I probably wouldn’t use the Mixtour Pro in combination with the 4-channel DVS mixer. I’d remove it from the equation to simplify my setup.
Maybe, 2 different setups would be better for you. Personally, I’d probably go with one setup that can do both rather than 2 different setups. Curious to hear what other users think though.
