ON TOPIC; Gemini First Mix
ON TOPIC; Gemini First Mix Posted on: 02.06.2011 by Dorcas Bassignani INFO So between my usual trolling activities and posting this everywhere, i got to believeing about tidgy portable controllers. now yes the first mix does look like a fisher price collab, and looks like they missed 'my' off the start of the title. but when you stop and believe about it, using superknobs (mod based in this case) and such, even this could be a half decent little bit of kit. discuss | |
| Chasidy Heckenbach 01.10.2011 |
Originally Posted by Hiro
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| Chasidy Heckenbach 01.10.2011 |
Originally Posted by Hiro
it's not a bad starting point for a mod tho as you have soooo many pots and buttons as inputs for a custom controller and the touch sensitive jog wheels are really responsive. i posted some photos of the inside of my idj in the thread in my sig. i actually opened it up again today and took some more photos of it broken down even more that i could post to that thread if u were interested. |
| Chasidy Heckenbach 01.10.2011 |
Originally Posted by Hiro
i ended up going for the icon idj instead of the gemini. same price but prefered the size and number of controls on the icon. i guess the gemini's jogs is slightly bigger tho? |
| Chasidy Heckenbach 02.06.2011 |
Originally Posted by Ryan Leo
edit: in theory i guess this should retail for 50quid in the uk? |
| Chasidy Heckenbach 02.10.2011 | here you go - uploaded 10 photos http://www.djranking s.com/community /sho...132#post357132 |
| Chasidy Heckenbach 01.10.2011 |
Originally Posted by Hiro
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| Madge Humrich 01.10.2011 | yes please.. =p all good stuff.. was believeing about making a thread of all the bookmarks ive saved that i believes gonna help me build something. theres alot, but theres still so much i dont know =[. il bookmark this one for sure lol ;] thanks btw |
| Chasidy Heckenbach 01.10.2011 |
Originally Posted by Hiro
it's not a bad starting point for a mod tho as you have soooo many pots and buttons as inputs for a custom controller and the touch sensitive jog wheels are really responsive. i posted some photos of the inside of my idj in the thread in my sig. i actually opened it up again today and took some more photos of it broken down even more that i could post to that thread if u were interested. |
| Madge Humrich 01.10.2011 | im gona come back to this thread with some ghetto drawings im gon dun with graph paper and a ruler and a pencil ;] ghetto i believe i might run with this. based on s2? this and umc32 and a usb port... EDIT... i mean hub lol, usb hub |
| Madge Humrich 01.10.2011 | did you mod your idj? thats all i really want this for=/ a base to start with and effectively the jog wheels. yea, i believe they are slightly bigger... theyr a nice size =] |
| Chasidy Heckenbach 01.10.2011 |
Originally Posted by Hiro
i ended up going for the icon idj instead of the gemini. same price but prefered the size and number of controls on the icon. i guess the gemini's jogs is slightly bigger tho? |
| Madge Humrich 01.10.2011 | i saw this cutie at bpm today =] in the tim i had it seems sweet. maybe my first mod =/ |
| Chasidy Heckenbach 10.07.2011 | anyone get one of these yet? i still fancy picking one up if the touch sensitive jogs are any good - don't care how good/bad/indifferent the rest is really. just like the idea of "not too bad" touch sensitive jogs in such a small controller. seem to go for around 90gbp in the uk which is a bit more than i was hoping for... |
| Chasidy Heckenbach 02.06.2011 |
Originally Posted by Ryan Leo
edit: in theory i guess this should retail for 50quid in the uk? |
| Dorcas Bassignani 02.06.2011 | i wanna get one for novelty |
| Yee Bedilion 02.06.2011 | Looks like a good choice to take apart and use for a custom mod. |
| Dorcas Bassignani 02.06.2011 | oooh... arcade mod on the first mix... |
| Chasidy Heckenbach 02.06.2011 | while i haven't really bought anything too expensive this community
is still costing me money so far being/reading here was the reason i bought traktor2 + launchpad + lpd8 + soldering stuff + arcade buttons etc it's a tad addictive this controllerism thing... |
| Dorcas Bassignani 02.06.2011 | true that |
| Chasidy Heckenbach 02.06.2011 |
Originally Posted by BradCee
i was believeing a couple more rotary encoders in the setup would be nice to play with but really what i wanted was a couple of touch sensitive jogs - the rest of the pots and buttons are just a bonus really on this firstmix and at least it doesnt look *quite* as much of a toy as the dm2 |
| Dorcas Bassignani 02.06.2011 |
Originally Posted by zestoi
Originally Posted by zestoi
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| Chasidy Heckenbach 02.06.2011 | if this quote is true "you get a pair of touch-sensitive jog wheels" and it goes on sale for 80$ (tho have seen 99$ mentioned too) then i believe i'll pick up one... the lack of touch sensitive jogs are the worst thing about my hercules - ok the buttons are shite too but ok for some things. seems to be selling for 89gbp (when it comes in stock) on some uk websites - but if the price drops a bit i believe it's worth picking one up to play around with. looks to be a nice/small/light controller... that and an lpd8 wouldn't make a bad combo with the right traktor mapping edit: believeing about it this is the kind of controller i have been looking for... the lack of faders is a shame but given how small it is i can see why. cheers BradCee |
| Dorcas Bassignani 02.06.2011 | i'm believeing middle bottom knob as bass x-fade like thing a/c <> b/d next row up (2) as hi/mid eq for a/c or b/d next row up (2) as filters and 4 along top as fx, in like a super knob style one for each fx bank in traktor, or fx banks per side... buttons i've not thought about yet |
| Chasidy Heckenbach 02.06.2011 | i believe it looks ok to play the part of jogs+eq for each deck, esp if gain+treble+bass was mapped to tops+mids+low and then could map the efx knobs (i always find that word funny... ) to gain. REV could even be mapped to toggle between decks A/C and B/D etc... that's basically what i'm using my old hercules mk2 for and i can see now that grid controllers seem more useful for effects stuff anyway. i'm still learning what traktor can do for me and how best to control/map it all - but if there was a controller a bit like this one but had a fader for each deck and touch sensitive jogs then i reckon that would fit into how i'd like to control things - leaving the rest of the controls to other controllers. i do find it interesting tho how people seem to fall into the "need jogs" or "jogs are a waste of space" category - tho there's also the ones who like using jogs for effects (in fact one "page" on my hercules setup will be used to control effects) |
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