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  • February 19, 2013 at 7:45 pm #36927
    Marcel Wambsganss
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    Hi Alex Wray,

    A Faderfox DJ3 came immediatly to my mind while reading your post.
    It has two faders and a crossfader, a set of 4 rotary push-encoders and 8 knobs and numerous buttons.
    The great thing is you have different midi pages with switches, for example, the top four encoders have 7 midi-pages, each one accessible with a switch, which makes 28 rotary push-encoders – plus a shift button 🙂

    I guess the provided mapping for Traktor for the DJ3 alongside a Launchpad for Loop/Hotucue/Instant effects control would be an awesome & very portable setup.

    The FDJ3 is at 169€ at the moment, so its not exactly cheap.

    Another thought would be the Behringer CMD mm-1 which also has faders and knobs/encoders (and a few buttons).

    That’s all i can think of at the moment. If more controllers come to my mind, i will post it here.

    February 20, 2013 at 2:01 pm #36960
    softcore
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    if you can get your hands on a Behringer BCR 2000, i totally recommend it. There simply is not any other midi controller with 32 available physical controls (usually most of them have 8 faders + 8 knobs = 16) per preset at this price around 150 euros). The top row Knobs also feature a 4 bank system per preset rising the total amount of controls to be mapped in 24+(4*8)=56 – and the device is capable of storing 32 presets i.e. 32 configurations of what each knob and each button will send as midi message. So for example you can have the same set of 56 controls duplicated and just change the midi channel and voila, you got double the controls just by pressing the preset buttons.

    Also, you might want to expand the available buttons of the launchpad with this litle thingie I’ve made.

    P.S. And here’s a small vid with the two in action

    [media=youtube]qr7-K8YEGdA[/media]

    February 21, 2013 at 1:35 am #36982
    Alex Wray
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    softcore, post: 37116, member: 243 wrote: if you can get your hands on a Behringer BCR 2000, i totally recommend it. There simply is not any other midi controller with 32 available physical controls (usually most of them have 8 faders + 8 knobs = 16) per preset at this price around 150 euros). The top row Knobs also feature a 4 bank system per preset rising the total amount of controls to be mapped in 24+(4*8)=56 – and the device is capable of storing 32 presets i.e. 32 configurations of what each knob and each button will send as midi message. So for example you can have the same set of 56 controls duplicated and just change the midi channel and voila, you got double the controls just by pressing the preset buttons.

    Also, you might want to expand the available buttons of the launchpad with this litle thingie I’ve made.

    P.S. And here’s a small vid with the two in action

    [media=youtube]qr7-K8YEGdA[/media]

    Wow. I must say i’m impressed. While my ability level is not there yet, that looks like something i would like to progress to in the future. The Behringer looks like it would definitely work for me, as well as the Faderfox. Right now I’m just building “Modular MIDI Maps” (what I call them) for using a Launchpad in Traktor. This is a vid of the first one I’ve completed while i build other mappings

    [media=youtube]6AJNJEC11f4[/media]

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