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anybody suggest a decent budget pad controller?

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  • April 5, 2013 at 12:25 pm #38819
    AuralCandy.Net
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    My friend has the AKAI LPD8 and it’s fine. I’ve got Korg Nanopad myself and it’s a good purchase as well.

    April 5, 2013 at 2:20 pm #38838
    Michael Matthews
    Member

    hows that with serato?

    April 6, 2013 at 8:56 am #38858
    Terry_42
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    If you mean Serato DJ -> only certified controllers will work with Serato DJ, pads like the LPD8 only can be used as a “secondary” controller in connection with your certified Serato Controller.
    For example I tested the Terminal Mix 4 (Serato Controller) with the LPD8 and it was a great combination, they work nicely together and the LPD8 was very easy to map to serato DJ.

    April 6, 2013 at 1:30 pm #38863
    Michael Matthews
    Member

    Thanks Terry yes thats what I mean, I want to use the akai LPD8 as a secondary controller, I believe the pads are pretty much the same as what my Mixtrack pro 2 has, so would be a nice combination. Is it not possible to remap certain features to my primary controller?

    Im running a Macbook Pro 2010 13″ will I need a powered USB hub or will my macbook power both controllers?

    Sorry for asking so many questions 😀

    April 6, 2013 at 1:45 pm #38865
    Ess Jay
    Member

    MacBook will power both controllers, and as far as I am aware you can map any button on MTP or LPD8 to any function in serato

    April 7, 2013 at 8:06 am #38875
    Terry_42
    Keymaster

    No you cannot. You cannot re-map anything on your primary controller. You can only map functions to the pad controller.

    April 7, 2013 at 8:13 am #38877
    Ess Jay
    Member

    Sorry my bad. Never realised that about serato.

    April 8, 2013 at 10:31 pm #38950
    Cyrus K
    Member

    I am running Virtual DJ, with a DJC.4 and am also looking for something like the akai lpd8 as a secondary controller. Any idea on how well VDJ works with something like that?

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