New turntable technology
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Man wtf?!http://www.skratchworx.com/images/plasa2005/vestax/controller1_1.mp4
Next up is the Controller 1. Previously know as the Melody, this is the next level musical turntable designed by D-Styles and Ricci Rucker. Now appearing in gleaming piano black, the Controller1 is an interesting deck for sure. Aside from being a cracking scratch deck, it's also revolutionary in that it can play notes. The 8 buttons around the platter correspond to notes in a scale and can be played in major or minor key. It can be controlled by a footpedal or on the deck itself. But this is the most interesting and impressive - it can also be controlled by Midi. Check out the movie to get a better idea of how it works. A little note about the movie - in the foreground you can hear some regular Ahhh scratching - it's the beepy tone stuff behind that you need to listen to. It shows the little Yamaha box knocking out a beat and sending midi signals to the Controller1 to change the pitch.[/b](WTF>!) Availability should be "soon" with an estimated price tag of ??1000.http://www.skratchworx.com/news/comments.php4?id=344This, however, is taking things a bit far:
Next up is the Controller 1. Previously know as the Melody, this is the next level musical turntable designed by D-Styles and Ricci Rucker. Now appearing in gleaming piano black, the Controller1 is an interesting deck for sure. Aside from being a cracking scratch deck, it's also revolutionary in that it can play notes. The 8 buttons around the platter correspond to notes in a scale and can be played in major or minor key. It can be controlled by a footpedal or on the deck itself. But this is the most interesting and impressive - it can also be controlled by Midi. Check out the movie to get a better idea of how it works. A little note about the movie - in the foreground you can hear some regular Ahhh scratching - it's the beepy tone stuff behind that you need to listen to. It shows the little Yamaha box knocking out a beat and sending midi signals to the Controller1 to change the pitch.[/b](WTF>!) Availability should be "soon" with an estimated price tag of ??1000.http://www.skratchworx.com/news/comments.php4?id=344This, however, is taking things a bit far:
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godamn, the first one sounds quite interesting as i happen to be learning piano and my 800s.
But the second one scares me
Is this where the fuck we are going?
hey djs deserve to do the "guitar solo orgasm face" too, perhaps this will bring them one step closer
But the point of this thread is, in the right hands that ttable could take (for lack of a better word) "turntablism" into some year 3000 shit.
i'm kinda early in my piano learning, but if what i visualize is true, imagine taking any sample and playing it in any pitch and in any scale, i.e. i can take a clip of flavor flav saying "yeaaaaaaaah-boy" and play it in any scale, minor, major or egyptian, i think thats pretty ill...basically, you can mimic any melody, based on any sample as a note...that is so phucking cool, very progressive...like taking wu tang's method man going "cash rules everything around me" and making it sound like jingle bells. phuck that would be amazing to have our hearing evolve to that point, so like instead of having notes, we have samples that align with notes, and vary by pitches.
Buy a fucking keyboard.
and it will play the sample in time, not on some slowed down sk1 steeze.
gNAT
$2000 for constant portamento?
No, this is where it's going:
To be honest, I think the idea is great. The funny thing is, I still would like a CD turntable for production, and every three months there's some new technology that takes it further. Plus, if anyone has heard Rikki Rucker's album Fuga[/b], that is on some
Yet more wastes of time and R&D funds for Vestax! Just go the fuck outta business already!!!
That midi turntable will go about as far as this previous idiotic vestax invention:
second: what is that fader board thing? looks stupid. like, actually stupid. unlike that new turntable.
It was supposed to be almost like an MPC for dj's. I saw the video with some DJ redoing Wu Tang Clan Ain't Nuthin To F*** wit.............I at that point in time stopped the video and filed it under "stupid inventions".
that shit is kinda gay.
What the hell was this thing supposed to do.