spektakx

Steelo, post: 20375, member: 1368 wrote: Sorry if I came across the wrong way. I realised I was a bit of an ass afterwards. My apologies. i’ll check out the link when I get home. I am interested in the controller you’re using. I’m assuming its something you’ve put together yourself. Tell me some more about it.

I’ve been at this for a whiiiiiile. it would take a whole lot more than that to bother me. i’ve heard more ish talked than you could imagine. Yet meanwhile, my work, my face, and my name(s) continue to turn up when people talk about controllers and the future of DJ productions. I’m serious, if you’ve seen something that you think is dope done with a controller, show me the link. I wanna see that stuff.
Many people who have come to appreciate what I can do started out just like you, doubting it, and/or perceiving it in a different way than it was intended. To put my work into context, everything I do and have done has been to lead up to “mobile gear”, battery powered mobile, take it to college in your backpack so you can go to your friends house between classes and scratch, grab it out the trunk of your car when you stay the night at your girl’s house and your TTs are at home, mobile. This is what I’ve been working towards. No, it’s not perfectly refined yet, because I’m literally defining it as we speak(type, haha) Know why you don’t see big names doing tricks on midi? cause that shit is difficult, that’s why. Those jog wheel are defined by a specific resolution, which means, that even though it’s a circle, it’s still broken down into a specific number of positions, and the track, or “playhead” as it might be thought of, “Jumps” from one position to the next. This is why scratching and juggling are difficult with midi. But I feel, that if I make the right controller and explain to guys where it fits into their lives(see the above situations) then they will want one.

VinnyBlanc, post: 20333, member: 737 wrote: “Ask yourself “how often have I seen a digital clock being displayed prominently on a wall?” We have digital clocks, and people use and like them, but they don’t see them in the same light as a clock with moving hands. Somehow, this same sentiment and feeling is influencing how people feel about midi controllers and DJing with them.” ~Spektakx

This is Dope, but I diasgree that midi controllers wills Fail…

Thank you,
of course, I’m generalizing about the “failure” of midi. To what extent, and how the failure will manifest itself remains to be see. I am certain that, at some point, “Units not selling” will force everyone in the production pipeline to massively rethink their strategies, both on design and implementation.
One recent example of units not selling is the NI s2. This is the perfect instance of what I’m talking about. The S4 sold 15000 units, great right, and I don’t know how many S2s sold(me talking about stuff like this in a public forum has scraed so many people, that I’m no longer on the inside) What we do know is this. They re-priced the S2. So we know that they were not selling as hoped for or expected. This isn’t the only time this has happened. The Numark V7s are another example.
My assertion is that fear and suspicion, on the part of the buyer, not lack of money, was/is the driving force behind the failure of these products. Not fear, from a sense of the device not working properly, so much; but instead the fear the we were being sold something else that wouldn’t fully live up to our expectations “workflow-wise”, and that the same manufacturer would only be coming back to us months later, asking us to buy their latest and greatest “upgraded” system.

@steelo, hey bro, I hate to bother ya, but I really wann get this juggle stuff lined out as best as possible, and so I appreciate your comment. if you get the chance, can you post a link or two of some midi controller juggles that you think are good. i’d like something “complex” not “basic” as you said mine were, but I’m searching in youtube and can’t find any that are much more than “manual loops” and I really can’t find any where they change patterns without going to a new hotcue or something. i think maybe my search results from the iPad app are different(it does that, I don’t know why) but yea, I’d appreciate the help. thanks in advance 🙂