They can connect to your computer and serve as audio interfaces, letting you send audio back and forth between the mixer and your digital audio workstation, or DAW. They give you powerful convenience features you can’t get on an old-school mixing board, such as saving and recalling settings and control via remote app. They can process instruments and voices with a range of built-in effects that would require a rack full of gear in the analog domain. They tend to be more compact and thus easier to transport. Digital mixers offer several intriguing advantages over their analog counterparts.
