Behringer X Touch Mini

First of all there's only a quick start guide. After searching on Behringer's website for a proper manual, I had to go through a very long process to register and another just as long to contact their support to be told there's no manual for that product. Yet it came out over 4 years ago.
You need to find the only video on youtube from someone nice enough to show how to set it up and vaguely how it works.
Using it with Ableton is a big disappointment. With the MC mode (the Mackie Control mode), you're supposed to access various commands in Live, unfortunately there's no logic to it : for instance to access the EQ8 you press the sixth square button, if your EQ8 is the first effect on your selected track, press the first rotary potentiometer (that acts like a button too) then you can choose the type of EQ curve, press the 8th square button you choose the frequency, type the 8th button then 7th, then 8th, then 7th only then can you access the gain of your chosen frequency.
Something done immediately with your mouse which a well thought MIDI remote script or controller could too.
The other mode lets you assign all the buttons yourself within Ableton with very limited options, you can't act on selected tracks, only on specified tracks. So you can't have more than 8 tracks controlled by the potentiometers.
I'm summing up obviously, this could have been a good product, it's not, at least with Live.
The fader only controls the master volume, the pots are very fragile and as they act as buttons too, you can feel that they won't last very long.
If you need a controller knowing that you'll do the assignments yourself, there are plenty of better choices out there.
If you want to use a MIDI remote script, the mackie control used by this unit isn't the right one for Ableton.

Pas cher et tres compact
Je recommande

Régisseur son de tournée, j'utilise pour mes mixs des traitements et des effets issus de mon ordinateur. Je ne pouvais jusqu'alors modifier en live qu'un seul paramètre à la fois à la sourie. Ce Contrôleur que j'ai mappé pour accéder à mes paramètres de plugg me permet de réaliser en temps réel ce que j'ai envie d'entendre.
Seul petit bémol, le retour de commande des "Backlite led" des 16 boutons qui ne sont mappables que sur le layer 1.
Dans la description, il est question de prise midi 5 broches, hors le X-Touch mini n'en possède pas.
Produit reçu très rapidement dans un emballage très sécurisé.