MIDI Fighter Announcement vs NI Controller Announcement
MIDI Fighter Announcement vs NI Controller Announcement Posted on: 19.11.2009 by Kayleen Positano So which controller are you more excited for? The NI Traktor Controller, or DJTT's very own MIDI Fighter?I know I'm looking forward to that sexy little grid of arcade buttons, myself. | |
| Adolf Hit 20.11.2009 | That was one of our key motives with the Midifighter, unless we make 10k we cannot offer a price that competes with the other mass market controllers, at this stage we couldn't even afford the tooling for a cheap plastic enclosure. If you can write any kind of code at all it is not that difficult to grab the source code, modify it to do what you want, and then you can upgrade your firmware via USB, no need for development tools or expensive compilers, or pissing round with shitty software and serial ports (cough cough). The 4 spare digital inputs could be easily coded to create an SPI port which you could interface to all kinds of other chips giving more LEDs, or many more digital/analog inputs, rotary encoders etc. |
| Random X 20.11.2009 | For now I might be swaying to the MIDI fighter. But that's just because of the extra's it can be. Modded extra value vs standard only always ends in a Mod > Standard for me. |
| Dolores Sefcovic 21.11.2009 | With the way it will have the LED's next to each button, the midifighter would be pretty handy to use as a step sequencer too. |
| Kayleen Positano 20.11.2009 | I know I am going to try my damndest to get a Midifighter. I've already got an Akai MPD18, which is essentially the same thing, but those arcade buttons just look so cool. |
| Latoria Kavulich 20.11.2009 | Wow, looks fantastic. watch this space for costings huh. Might be a coin flip purchase. |
| Janeen Grava 20.11.2009 | Im SUPER excited for the midi fighter, but whats with the black one with the 4X4 buttons and two analogue sticks? i NEED that one |
| Romelia Stankard 20.11.2009 | The NI controller sucks balls. sure it has some backlit LEd buttons, but it is the same footprint (although annoyingly shallow and needs a special bag/riser to get it to mixer level) and has 1/4 of the potential of a Xone: 1D for the same price. Xone 1D > NI crap. Now on the new DJ tech controllers, they aren't really comparable to either however I would take one over that NI junk any day. It looks like it will have a lot of creative possibilities and be different and fun to use. I might get one in addition to my 4D and 1Ds as a hot cue control center.... i always liekd the idea of arcade buttons but I'm an elitist gear whore analog freak and would never use a VCI, so this is a cool chance to incorporate the snappy arcade button aspect into my setup. As long as it is priced right... If it is over $150 then I probably won't buy it since I could make one for half the price, but if it is priced well it could sell a lot of units. If i could add some potentiometers we would be in business. |
| Efrain Scharr 19.11.2009 | well, NI controllerlooks great,slim, andseems to be really complete for what i wanna do. Right now i use a Xone 1D to control all 4 decks plus i use an external mixer (i request a xone 62 or 92). I love my xone 1D, but could really use like an extra row of knobs and buttons. I don't need them, but i could set some more sh!t up if i had them. With that being said i believe the NIKontrol is really great, but i will need 2 of them, and i am upset to lose my sliders/faders... I use them to control the dry and wet of all 4 decks effects and it also turns the effects on... so i am just worried about losing them. I believe i am gonna buy 2 of the NI Kontrol X1's but those damn sliders have me upset... hopefully i can reprogram it to do the same thing on the Kontrol X1, I know they are saying we can, so i will just have to get used to turning the pots for the dry wet as opposed to using the sliders... |
| Donnette Parish 19.11.2009 | I mean how much could this thing actually cost? There isn't much to it... I built the same thing out of a broken Oxygen 8 for $17.67 for 16 arcade buttons, screws, wire, and some wood. |
| Adolf Hit 19.11.2009 | I have one of those bad boys sitting right next to me - pretty exciting! |
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