Which is the best controller for manual beatmatching?
Which is the best controller for manual beatmatching? Posted on: 24.05.2012 by Jonathan Lokey I recently purchased a normal VCI 400 and having mapped it to traktor was less than impressed with the accuracy of the pitch fader when I wanted to try and manual beatmatch. I am now looking forward to the new Reloop Terminal Mix 2 that is meant to have really good jogwheels and a high resolution14 bit pitch fader that should be able to have a smallest change of 0.01%. It will be nice to have just a 2 channel controller that you can manually beatmatch on. My question is what other controllers are there out at the moment that are really good for manual beatmatching. I know the S4 and S2 have the nice tight integration but i was worried about their pitch fader length and jogwheel size.Thanks Tim | |
| Jonathan Lokey 24.05.2012 | I recently purchased a normal VCI 400 and having mapped it to traktor was less than impressed with the accuracy of the pitch fader when I wanted to try and manual beatmatch. I am now looking forward to the new Reloop Terminal Mix 2 that is meant to have really good jogwheels and a high resolution14 bit pitch fader that should be able to have a smallest change of 0.01%. It will be nice to have just a 2 channel controller that you can manually beatmatch on. My question is what other controllers are there out at the moment that are really good for manual beatmatching. I know the S4 and S2 have the nice tight integration but i was worried about their pitch fader length and jogwheel size. Thanks Tim |
| Melinda Wubben 24.05.2012 | Keep in mind that so far, controllers don't usually have actual 14-bit A/D in the pitch faders, even though they send 14-bit MIDI. 10 bits is usual for 'high res'. That's 1024 values already and reasonably accurate, but as far as I know only the Numark NS7 achieves 0.01% resolution regardless of pitch range. Edit: I'm not even sure if Traktor actually supports using the full 14 bits for pitch. Anyone know better? |
| Cassaundra Lindesmith 24.05.2012 | Just throwing it out there, the touchstrips on my Twitch work nicely for beatmatching. |
| Jonathan Chiuchiolo 24.05.2012 | the other option for beatmatching is the numark ns6/4trak but thats 4 decks and there is a big price difference between the reloop and the numarks. personally I have owned a reloop digital jockey 2, 3 and contour, the jockey 2 is pretty weak but the jockey 3 and contour are underrated great quality controllers. |
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