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I'm going to get respond to everything at once, so I'll get answers to some of these questions from Joe. Joe Ward, the creator, also invented these custom light turntables which are controlled via Quickswitch. They change colors on beat, and can be seen by using clear serato vinyl. In this instance, Clinton Spark's name was cut into the 1200 platter, when the lights shine through, you can see the name. The music is eh, but check the lights. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_mxv1rf-mU Joe told me the site will be up tomm.

This is an open topic regarding Quickswitch. Quickswitch is a DJ controller that was invented by Joe Ward. He's a really down to earth guy with lots of great ideas. He's a working DJ, and also a firefighter. Joe approached me a few years back about a project he was working on, and he showed me a video of what it could do. I was impressed that he was able to use classic DJ techniques to take advantage of current DJ technology. The concept is simple, but the theory behind it takes some time to grasp. Unlike the dicer, which use is self explanatory, Quickswitch is limited to your imagination. It might seem useless if your imagination (or skill level) isn't ready for it yet. We shouldn't refer to this as a midi controller, this is a DJ CONTROLLER. It's like the cap on a soda pop & your front door...both are used to keep things in our out, but serve ENTIRELY different purposes. When digital vinyl first came out, we couldn't put our fingers on it, no pun intended, but the issue was the lack of a controller. The best ideas are always the ones that are so simple that it never came to anyone's mind. The things you can do with Quickswitch you wouldn't even think of doing with Serato on your laptop. Since everything is custom programmable, you really come face to face with choosing a direction you want to go within the world of endless possibilities. I make beats, so I definitely wanted my first go ahead with Quickswitch to be based around the idea of scratching and chopping beats at the same time. I set all of my cue points in a row for both left and right channels, and I currently have the loop rolls triggering from 1 of the 6 foot pedals. This allows me to chop beats while simultaneously loop rolling and scratching. I have all my loop functions set as buttons on both left and right channels. This allows me to get in and out of preset loops, or set them live. We will release a series of videos which showcases each technique individually, which will later all be used in a full demo. What I love about Quickswitch is that it doesn't break the flow of what most DJs already do, if anything it challenges you (in a fun way) to incorporate the buttons with your DJing.... I've found this to be hours of fun. So far, the only possible intimidating factors would be that you're able to make Quickswitch as complex or as easy as you want it to be. It doesn't have a dedicated function, it's a canvas that you shape to fit your vision. I'm currently trying different button/pedal arrangements in search for a standard setup which all users can build from. I haven't really touched on everything, but if you have questions, maybe that would be a good place to start up a conversation. Here's an example of what it can do http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVNRnzFPqR0 Lover

It's all good guys. @Steve can you delete this thread so we can start a more productive one for the Quickswitch? I'm happy to discuss what I know. Thanks in advance. I'll check back occasionally. Peace!

He pretty much clears these assumptions up here: http://bit.ly/gFWFQw while you were hating.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVNRnzFPqR0 @Jon - This is NOT midi (it can be). Users can control ANY non-midi program as well as midi programs. This fact alone makes competition with the dicer obsolete. You can control full on stage shows with this controller. Loop rolling (as well as any function you want) can be triggered from up to 6 footpedals, along with 18 pads on each side of the deck. It has it's own hub to connect devices. Instead of leading people down the wrong path with misinfo, you should ask questions. Is that so unreasonable? This is what hate makes people do. @diggla - Joe Ward invented the quickswitch and approached Ruck. So your whole energy and premise is based off your lack of knowledge about the situation, but you went in hard like you knew GOD told you this. You didn't find any Weapons of Mass Destruction bro. This is what hatred does, makes people preempt, instead of being learners with common ground. I would understand if he used serato like everyone else, touching a laptop, and completely out of his dj flow.. that would be pretty contradictory.... but he used it with a one of a kind controller that allows him to use his abilities to take the technology to areas that no one else is taking serato. The question you should be asking yourself is, why didn't no one else do this with the 5-6 year window of time to do it? HE enters the digital vinyl game at a higher level than it's users. This was really the level ALL OF US should of STARTED at, but there was no respect to playing methods, DVS just came in and expected everyone to press laptops and forget everything djs worked hard for. @airnino why would he be pissed, he is signed to a major labels, and about 40% of his catalog is being licensed. @chris This is explained here > http://bit.ly/gFWFQw . The quickswitch was the missing link, something similar should of been released the day serato unleashed their program. Controller One's features and functionality made no sense in 2005, there was nothing to bring it all together. You just had this overqualified turntable, and 1200s were still in circulation. If there was more comradeship in the dj scene, like say the web development scene, we could of had open minds about the future uses of it, and building around it. but people (like they usually do) hated, and they stopped production, so your hate has essentially put Ruck on an island of his own, with a rare turntable (only one compatible with serato and quickswitch) and a one of a kind controller that form together to create something very special. It's not about fiddling with functions bro, this is a full blow dj/production studio designed specifically to control entire shows from sound to lighting. No amount of hate can take away the large amounts of money he gets for performing at festivals with this setup. @Steve the only B.S. is you guys hating on someone who you've never spoken to. This is 2011 man, you guys win nothing by acting like this. You certainly haven't had contact of any form with him for at least 5 years. You are acting very unreasonable, and with the wealth of knowledge he has, you guys should form an alliance and squash the beef. At least you are ready to use the things he develops even though you are verbally bashing him. :$ @dissonance I can't believe 5 years later, you are still mad about a misplaced order. I remember you were in NY taking pics with ruck, all smiles, one of ruck's biggest fans, and now you his biggest hater. You are threatening physical violence on this board bro... think about it..... What has he done to any of you personally? Nothing. He hasn't even spoken in half a decade. The worse part is, he replaced your record with something that is probably worth more than you paid for it (from your own words), so it's not about money. You tell me who's being unreasonable. Your hate and comments are unwarranted.. @dopplkorn you are experiencing group hate. First, you ask what the controller does (as a dj should) investigating innocently, and you admit knowing nothing about him, then your last response is you jumping on the hate parade. I seen diggla and all these guys basically go at you like they were a virus and you were a healthy cell, making sure everyone (all 50 people) in this forum is infected with hate. This is reminiscent of white kids in the 40s beating up a black kid, and the few white kids who knew it was wrong, felt forced to join or lose their "friends". Hate is no friend. I suggest you put your head deep in the music and get as much knowledge as you can. Ruck has records with J Dilla and countless other musical superheros, who have your friends worked with, and can call a friend? @gizmo you should be ashamed of yourself. You're supposed to be running a non biased site called skratchworx.com, but you come to here trying to stir things up, albeit, without going as far as dissonance. There's no question of Ruck's importance to music, and with his major label cosigns in 2011, he will be making his presence known commercially. Also, he's not hiding from Q, you just have to understand that he has huge relationships to be concerned of, and no one wants to see petty beef. Ruck wanted people to retweet it, so the info was available to Q without turning his page into something dedicated to dj drama. I know this might seem unbelievable, but most people don't care about a dj... even if it's Qbert. Ruck is making music, working with Kelis, working all types of major artists directly. Qbert? Qbert fell off , not only skill wise (especially compared to the beast that is Ruck on the cut...), but in terms of respect. He almost got jumped in SF for charging Dream One's family to perform. Dream One was the graf artist who did his scratch record covers (toasted, etc..) Dream one was shot and died, and he had a kid, and his kid's mom died shortly after, they wanted to throw a benefit for his son to raise some money.... and qbert wanted to charge the fams 1000 for him to perform... you can imagine when all the OGs there heard about that... OG GRAF heads throw down son... he had to leave early. 41Funk was the head line act anyway.. and they smashed it (with the CONTROLLER ONE) and showed the OGs that this was the future. So you go root for Q, the man of character. @MrEd You are insinuating that Ruck is a hypocrite, and he hates things he later then participates in? So because he says Dubstep is not a genre, he will begin making dubstep? Let's look at LORN'S FACT MAGAZINE interview, and see what he says. "Absolutely. Guys like Om Unit (known as 2Tall back then), Morganistic, Le Jad, Toadstyle, Ricci Rucker, Paesano and myself included were making what would now be considered dubstep and/or beat music, but we were doing it at the beginning of the decade. At the time the 140bpm range was popular for “double time” beats because it was the perfect tempo to get really nasty with the scratching. Take a listen to Rucker’s ‘Dirty Soap’ from 2006 [released on wax in 2002/3 but digital in ’06] and you’ll hear music that easily rivals any modern electronic hip-hop record. If you ask me, this kind of music didn’t come from any continent…it came from the ether.” How easy they forget. We both know how lorn got in the scene, they battled, and ruck gave him notoriety, he credits him for that, and lorn this year asked ruck if he could do vocals on his crush record... ruck said yes, and now they are collaborators and friends. Lorn and ruck are a perfect example of how hip hop / music "beef" should turn into creative allies. LORN, is making it clear in one of the biggest culture magazines in the world. If Ruck would of said this quote VERBATIM, you guys would be hating and denying it... this is why lorn has a level of success, cause he isn't HATING. It's cool to not like something, but you guys are on here HATING, PURE HATE. When you LOVE your craft, you don't say the shit you guys been saying. Nothing more needs to be said.. Your energy will not be allowed in the heavens bro. It's unwarranted. IF you guys had any type of self respect, you would create peace, and refrain from speaking out of hatred. There is even people saying "sell his record after he dies", seriously? Just in case you missed it, this article pretty much sums it up: http://bit.ly/gFWFQw

wtf? hatred is a hell of a drug.