Reply to Control four decks with two turntables, easy

Anyone use two turntables to control four decks in a DVS? I have an idea...

It might be fairly easy to install lightwire with midi-in under the platter to make them change collor, and use your dicers/X1 to "change" decks.

You could have two different colors so the left and right turntables could control decks A/C B/D just like a midi controller, but with real turntables. You could play normally on two blue turntables, press a button on the dicer or X1 and the platter turns red and you now have direct control of a third or fourth deck for scratching, samples, or another track. When the button is held down both decks are disengaged so you can replace the pitchfader in its original position.

The midi for displaying a shift state is pretty basic and all the shift button has to do is tell the DVS to swap the internal and external control for two decks, really simple stuff. Then just output this state to the el-wire under the platter. This would be soooooooo cool!!

In "relative" external playback mode the deck continues playing from the same pitch and location when switched to internal playback and resumes playback control from the CV imediatly upon switching back to external.

I was able to play a beat on deck C and manually pitch it UP %20 and swapped deck control to A. I then pitched deck A DOWN %20 and scratched. I then held the button and moved the pitchfader back to PLUS %20 and resumed manual control of deck C. I did all of this on ONE turntable.