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Is a Black Magic Fairlight Live Mixer a perfect companion to an ATEM Mini when it comes to audio?

ASKED BY · Paul Vol · AUSTIN, TEXAS · 23 SEP 2026 · ▶ 00:03:29

THE PANEL'S ANSWER

Clarifies Fairlight Live works as standalone software with USB interfaces and VST plugins, or with ATEM Extreme ISO G2 with latest firmware as USB-C audio interface.

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Confirms the hardware mixer is designed to work with ATEM devices and notes having physical faders is better than software-only mixing for live work.

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3:29have little adapticators, maybe plug multiple things in. I tell you, we just, we never get satisfied. We always just want to keep adding more and more crap that we want our phone to do. Let's go to the next question, Alexander. All right. This one is coming in from Paul Vol, who's in Austin, Texas. Is a Black Magic Fairlight live mixer a perfect companion to an ATEM MIDI

3:51when it comes to audio? That's a good question. What's your thought, Alexander? So this app doesn't require an ATEM. I mean, you can use it as a standalone app with a you know a core audio compliant interface USB interface you can run VST plugins now if I'm not mistaken I think it only works if you're going to use it with an ATEM I think you have to have the new extreme

4:16ISO G2 with the latest firmware there was a firmware that was in beta that added support to have Fairlight recognize the ATEM as a USB-C audio interface I don't know if that's out of beta because I haven't been following it and I'm sure others will comment on it I go yeah anyways that's all it's interesting so it's basically what we're talking about is is this guy yeah no

4:43we're talking I think he's talking oh he said fair like you know what you can interpret it two ways because when we said Fairlight mixer I assumed Paul's talking about the Fairlight live mixer software but they do have a piece of hardware. I think he's talking about this piece of hardware here that looks, appears to be expandable. Well, then I retract my statement. He is not. He's not talking about software? Yeah,

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