Alchemy432

yeah its pretty cool 🙂 hodor is a total boss. b watch ep 8 myself tonight after that extended wait… damn u hbo..

for what its worth, I own the G2V which is essentially the same as the g4v but limited to 2 decks.

it is my first controller and I’m new to djing.

the unit needed a firmware update out of the box, the updater available on the website didn’t work and the support was non existent.

once they updated their updater and I had updated the firmware of the G2V it worked as intended.

It is designed for VDJ and while mapping is available for traktor, the mappings for either traktor OR vdj are for specific versions of the softwares, and if you don’t have the specific version they may not work.

also the traktor mapping is more or less incomplete and imho flawed, as some buttons/knobs on the g2v no longer do anything at all if using traktor, and the ones that do work are mapped to functions that don’t always relate to the original functions of the buttons/knobs when using the g2v with vdj.

it comes with vdjle out the box, which is pretty useless and therefore you would need to upgrade to vdjpro for a price or find an alternative software and hope theres an available mapping, or make your own.

jog wheels are fine, buttons and knobs are fine, avail. functions are great if you use the unit with vdjpro. pitch faders are dissapointing as I’ll explain in a minute, and I wish the crossfader was smoother. rather than smooth transitions it jumps along with noticable gaps. this could also be a lack of skill on my part tho.

as for the pitch faders I made the stupid mistake of thinking that longthrow pitch faders meant more accurate pitch shifting, but it turns out that despite the longer fader ranges, the pitch faders are NOT high resolution, which I have a feeling will be pain in the ass in the future and will cause me to sell the unit and buy something else.

in conclusion, the G2V was a pain in the ass to set up, will probably be a pain in the ass in the future if I want to use the pitch faders to fine-tune… and I love it anyway. I really do love my G2V, but again, its my first controller, which i’m using to take my first adventure into the world of live djing, so everything is new and fun and exciting to me anyway. If my skills developed beyond what I could do with the unit I would upgrade.

One final thought, if you are forced to work harder and refine your skills further because of creppy equipment, when the time comes for you to use top shelf equipment, *sometimes* you end up having an advantage from having that handicap removed; like running with weights at one speed, then removing the weights and suddenly running a whole lot faster.

hope that helps,
Peace.

P.S) I am also in australia and I had the G2V posted to me from an interstate shop, bought it online at one of these 2 stores, I don’t remember which, https://www.storedj.com.au/ or http://www.djcity.com.au/

I have bought lots of equipment from both of these stores and have had good experiences with both. Just be sure to phone them up and double check that what you want to buy is in stock in their physical shops before you place the order online.

Cheers Vintage, I patiently await the outcome 😉 😀

lol tried posting this 4 times now…

killa, will sign up n download for later, been listenin 2 dnb 4 the last 12hrs, ears need a rest 1st 🙂

sweet. I’ll b tunin in for that, lookin forward to it!

peace

lol that’s classic. those were good tales bro, cheers for sharing. I think the thread author is off doing other things now so I don’t think they’d mind off topic-ness too much.

I used to be in an event crew.. we did a few raves.. a few of those the same deal as u mentioned.. off the map.. underground.. anything goes.. theres also a psytrance/goa/psybient crew round here that do really fckn good underground outdoor raves too.. like 200kms from anything for 3 day weekends in a farmers fields.. those are awesome.

that dj mate of urs has an interesting view bout dnb.. I think its always hard to talk about music in general because its art and art is subjective.

What i find tho is that whether jump up, techstep, neurofunk, liquid, or whatever sub genre, there is a clear difference between the heavy on the synth stuff, and the stuff that has that more vinyl sampled/live band sound.. like to talk about the happier liquidish stuff its like say the diff between ‘InContext – Just believe’ or ‘brooks bros – tear you down’ which is that distinctive hospital sound VS. ‘atlantic connection – can’t destroy love’ or ‘DJ Ded – sweet honey cut’ which I see as more jungle influenced… I love both sounds.. but my favorite tracks blend both sounds & defy sub-genre categorization.. like ‘loudy – pharmacy in my mind’ or ‘muffler – mermaids’… and again this is just the happier side of dnb..

then you got that same 2 sounds with hip hop.. you’ve got the crate digger beats.. and then the more synth based gangsta/krunk/trap stuff… j dilla or dj premier vs. dr.dre or lil’ john… but with hip hop I’m completely biased toward the crate digger sound…

dubstep’s another funny genre to talk bout, you can compare it to dnb because it borrows so much from the genre, but the dubstep that I like is kind of its own new beast of a thing altogether. I associate dnb with raves but I find I group the kind of dubstep that i like with genres like soul, funk, hip hop in my mind.. I don’t want dubstep to sound like dnb.. but if it did – i’d want something like ‘bassnectar – here we go’ and nothing like skrillex, rusko etc..

When you hear stuff like burial – gutted, james blake – limit to your love, shackleton – blood on my hands, balkansky – kuker, borgore – 5 years, jazzsteppa – investment decision, its not really that similar to dnb, or even ‘popular’ dubstep.. and if I was going to listen to ‘obviously dubstep’ style dubstep.. I haven’t found anything that is better then this track as of yet ‘coyote kisses – acid wolfpack’.. tidy synth work… very slick production..

what u say bout jump-up style jungle is interesting, its like the other side of jungle (arguably the more popular side?) but the stuff that does it for me is the reaaaaal laid back chilled out jazz inspired stuff.. like hidden agenda – swing time, get carter, the wedge… more or less my favourite jungle right thar.. tho in all honestly my jungle collection is a small fraction of all the dnb i own..

also I’ve been out of the loop for a while, only just discovering what I’ve missed over the last 2 years and trying to get up to date on everything again.. hence most of the tracks i just mentioned are several years old now..

anyway its good to talk to someone with a broad taste in D&B open to tracks that share similar aesthetics over any strict rules etc.. I tend to think that producers don’t invent new things by strictly adhering to whatever came before them…

Peace

I had thought that my using flashblock, adblockplus, ghostery, noscript, httpseverywhere, & better privacy together was doing something, but I think its probably something happening on ddjt’s side as it seems to be completely random as to whether you can post.

maybe its just magical gremlins from the 7th dimension.