OK folks, here we go again. I've now got an American Audio VMS4.1, and love it to bits. This leaves me with two channels for backup/ second playout. Using a second laptop, soundcard and controller, is time consuming and cumbersome.
Now I've seen what one person on here can do with a small apple product into one channel (No idea what it's called, but It's very clever ) which would leave one channel with a cable to connect guests phones and ipods if necessary. Perfect. I feel however that this is beyond my budget, and would offend the Luddite in me.
Can anyone suggest a small playout which would preferably accept USB sticks, and had two playout channels, even if it had only one output ( ie a mixer of some sort. ) This would still leave me a spare channel for phones and the like.
Low cost and small size are vital. I've got a Cortex, but that really means a case and keyboard, so still cumbersome.