Zoom has introduced the LiveTrak L6 – a full-featured compact digital mixer and recorder that offers 10-in/4-out mixing, MIDI support, recording to micro SD card, on-board effects, sample playback and more.
And you can mount it in a Eurorack case, if you want to put all those capabilities directly in your modular system.
Zoom says that the L6 is designed with ‘big mixer capabilities’, including a full channel strip for each track, including aux sends, pan, effects, and a 3-band mid-sweepable EQ. The L6 records 10 discrete tracks, plus the full stereo mix, on microSD cards up to 2TB.
The L6 can also be used as a 32-bit float 12-in / 4-out USB audio interface for your computer, iOS, or Android device while recording simultaneously to the microSD card.
Features:
- 10-channel ultra compact digital mixer with 12 tracks of recording
- 2 XLR/TRS combo inputs + 4-stereo inputs
- Connect, program, and sync the L6 to your outboard gear via the 3.5mm MIDI I/O, or to a computer via USB
- 32-bit float multi-track recording to micro SD card
- 10-in / 4-out USB 32-bit float audio interface – record and stream on PC, Mac, and iOS
LiveTrak L6 Tour:
Pricing and Availability:
The Zoom LiveTrak L6 is available to pre-order, priced at $299.99 USD.
That’s an impressive amount of shazam for just $300. Zoom rocks hard. They’re a budget company whose gear doesn’t feel budget. I’d love to see them create a synth. They could probably put a Fairlight in a matchbox.
Actually their gear does look, feel and operate on a budget level. Doesn’t mean it’s bad but don’t make more than it actually is. (the MIDI control is nice though)
The fact this fits in a Eurorack doesn’t make it a Eurorack mixer.
Ever heard of the Zoom ARQ 96 (and/or 48)? https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2016/01/21/zoom-announces-arq-drum-machine-sequencer-synthesizer-looper-midi-controller/
Dare I say- this is what the Voca Mix should have been. Volca sized, Volca features, and then so much more
Its neat that they will have a eurorack power and rack adapter for it, with the 1/4″ jacks though I feel like that is a bit of an odd approach, yeah adapters exist but it still seems kind of cumbersome for mounting into a eurorack case, that price is great though!
I really like this mixer/recorder/interface. It’s a mini beast, but the official app can be a wall. Is this mixer class compliant?
It is truly wild that it has taken THIS long for a single large manufacturer to make a compact mixer aimed at electronic musicians. There’s the 1010Music Bluebox, which is more expensive than this, doesn’t act as an interface, limited knobs, and has ridiculously cramped 1/8″ I/O. There’s the Teenage Engineering little toy mixer, which is even more ridiculously cramped. There’s Roland’s abandoned Aira MX-1, which was neither fish nor fowl. Then there’s a seemingly limitless amount of Mackie, Yamaha, A&H, etc. compact mixers, many of which are very good, but the companies seem to think their only use is 3 vocalists, a drum set, and one keyboard or something.
The Zoom has great functionality at this size. More hands on control can be had with some MIDI knobs.
I know a lot of people are already wishing that at least one of the AUX sends were STEREO. That’s a hardware issue, but the basic parameters of the master compressor should also be adjustable, and hopefully Zoom remedies that.
I’d like to see more videos etc before I commit to buying.
However, this for me is definitely ticking all the right boxes (not in a Badgear way!),
The fact it can be mounted in eurorack is especially cool.
…the Eurorack-compability is a bit of cheating .:-) …it has the size to fit right in between the rails of a rack, but no ability to screw the unit and it seems there is a USB-C for power on the right side so it needs some space for that too…
I like the size tho…so for sure a quite nice mixer for a portable setup.
edit: as someone mentioned…there are some optional rack ears and a powersupply available.. that makes it compatible in a way.
This is so close to being something great. 4 sounds only? Having different banks of sounds would be wayyyyyy more useful. It would also be helpful if it could operate at 44.1 as well.
Aren’t the sounds part of the “scene”? So you have like 3 times 4 sounds? Still not much, but 12 is better than 4.
Possibly, I read the manual and it wasn’t terribly clear.
Aaaah good call with the manual. The section about the sounds doesn’t mention it, but if you look at the scene section, they tell you what is saved within a scene. Apparently the sounds aren’t part of it.
So 4 sounds only. Maybe they’ll change that in a firmware update.
If they would release this two years ago i wouldn’t have to buy rc505mk2 + mixer combo :-(.
“you can mount it in a Eurorack case… ”
How?
By buying “the optional ERL-6 rack ears and power supply.”
“The L6 is mountable to a standard Eurorack case using the optional ERL-6 rack ears and power supply.”
That’s how.
If you look at the second picture in this article you can see it mounted in a Eurorack case.
It’s mounted with 2 rack ears, one each side of the mixer.
Looking at Zoom’s website it says “The L6 is mountable to a standard Eurorack case using the optional ERL-6 rack ears and power supply”.
Doesn’t look like you can hook guitars up to it, though. I don’t see any kind of high-z connector. The manual says you can’t, and need an external mixer for that. I know it’s synth-centric, and that’s great, but that option would be helpful, even if it bumped up the price point a touch.
Easily fixed. There are plenty of cheap preamp boxes etc. you can put inbetween the guitar and this mixer.