Is a Blackmagic Fairlight Live mixer a perfect companion to an ATEM MIDI when it comes to audio?

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,

5:08my final ruling because the URL that he included does in fact take us to the Fairlight Live audio mixer. And of course, the answer is yes. Now, the caveat may be, as Alexander pointed out, certain hardware or needing an update. But, I mean, it's the same company. It is literally designed to, you know, work with their devices. You know, the more buttons and stuff, the better, of course.

5:36But, yes, absolutely. Now, I will say also that, you know, you don't want to overcomplicate things, especially if you are the one who's doing the switching while you're trying to have a, you know, a decent thought and something to say. So you don't want to overcomplicate it, but if it solves a problem, absolutely. Look at all that. I mean, I'll say this.

6:02When I did my demo with Alex about my setup, and I'm using a digital audio mixer on the Mac, one of my objectives was I wanted to be able to have, you know, something I can reach out and grab. And so I think having a fader instead of a mouse makes a real big difference when you're dealing with live audio. If you're just recording something and doing post-production, whatever, a mix down, you can get away with a lot less tactile response.

6:41I think it looks good. I think as is the case, all of us, I was going to say audio engineers, but really all of us are very particular about how we interact with the machines in front of us. And so it might be a good mixer. It might not be. There's so many things that it can have wrong. I think the one thing that we do know is that Blackmagic has been very dedicated to updating things and keeping things moving forward.

7:28Jeff, did you have anything else you wanted to say? I did just want to add, you know, for the physical tactile, I don't know if a lot of people would do this, But, you know, you can map Stream Deck, you know, columns of buttons to effectively give you the tactile, you know, it's not a fader, but of course you can, you know, do the up, down, all that good stuff.