F1, my thoughts so far.....

I've been using the F1 Kontroller for a while now, and i have to say, it's not all that i thought it was.

At first i thought 'how cool, i can have loads of clips, arrange them out like vocals, one shot fx, loops, etc'
But to be honest, if you're playing house and some forms of techno, then it's really just a bit of an indulgence.
Sure every now and then its ok to fire off a loop or fx, but generally playing house and techno, you want the records to play as they are, if you need to be putting loops ontop and fx all over the place then you've bought the wrong record in the first place.

I believe the F1 is great for those dj's like richie hawtin who go crazy with looping and mangling stuff, the whole minimal techno crew, Chris liebing too, those sort of guys.
Also for Dj's who do a lot of cutting and scratching and tricks.

It's no doubt a really good bit of kit, but i'm generally finding not that much use for it apart from capturing loops from deck A & B, and maybe firing off the odd loop or vocal or fx now and then.

My other downside to it is it's a bit fiddly, the sample slots are so small that if you have a remix set full of stuff, its hard to really see where everything is, you end up having to get close to the screen staring at it looking for 'That amazing loop' you want to drop.

The unit itself is well made, not that impressed with the filters but they're ok,

Just thought i'd post my thoughts on it really, good bit of kit, but if you're playing a house set where you generally want to let the records breath then i dont believe theres a massive use for it.