Midas MR18

Bought this after many years of using the X32.

The preamps sound massively better than that of the X series and I found the M-Air app on my laptop to be really great. No drop outs, worked flawlessly all night.

Using this for a busy wedding band, perfect for the application

First impressions: the package does what it promises with high Price-to-performance -ratio.

Easy to take into operation, but required the drivers and applications to be downloaded. After the installation of the softwares both computer and wireless equipment work fine.
Mic-pres are really worth of paying little extra to the little brother XR18 - they deliver usable much gain with low noise and therefore are up to almost any demands for live applications or project studio, etc.
As an audio interface it is also a good choice - 18 channels in at one time - remarkable considering its price with less than 5ms roundtrip latency for DAW playback on (32 samples worked flawlessly with Ableton Live) which is totally enough for overdubbing.

Internal effect are usefull up to live applications and monitor mixes.

Overall mechanical quality is high and software functional - even bass player can do his monitor mixing by himself!
Could have had another Headphone output with separate volume control (for this a took one star away)

The only actual improvement I can think of would be the be able to route audio direcly through WLAN to mobile phone etc. to be able to use them as in-ear monitor amp...

This is a very solid and powerful little mixer. It’s form factor is perfect: :small footprint, lightweight, sits in snug next to the main rig, offers great sound quality and very flexible routing options.

i’m using it as a platform to hook up various hardware bits, but can see this would be great for a live band too. The software is pretty easy to get around. Once you’ve worked out the routing and relationship with layers/busses it is straightforward to do more complex things on it.

I haven’t been digging into effects especially. The main dynamics/eq tools per channel are handy and a gate per channel is very nice indeed.

i use it set and forget. MR18 remembers what your last mix was and holds that in memory so if your ipad hangs or won”t work you’re still good to go. hard switch on front panel disables wi-fi to a hard connect. that is a really cool feature for peace of mind. It all feels reassuring. perfect for live but also studio work.

18 outs via usb. mac saw it straight away no handshake problems. flawless multitrack to the daw.

i don’t often leave reviews but if you’re on the fence, this mixer is a very productive spend in it’s price range. five stars!

Great product.
Digital mixer has small size, powerful functionality and high quality of sound.

Attention: different apps (for android / iOS / Mac) have differencies in the interface, it is little bit difficult to switch between platforms.

Mixer can switch snapshots (scenes stored in mixer memory) online - without any silence or breaks.

Very useful tool for small size stages or bands

as i only received it on the 4th of January still finding my way around its full use...
so far i enjoy using it and i have found its performance 100%