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make sure you have the sensor aligned properly, i had to try repositioning mine a few times. test all you connections for continuity with a multimeter, you could quite easily have broken the cable. the plater present sensor can just be shorted out with a blob of solder between the two pins on the sensor. there was an image floating around that described the fix but i can't find it. don't do it if you aren't sure that's your problem.

if you have annother ttx1 you can swap over the sensors to make sure that its really the problem. there is annother possibile problem with the ttx1s that is caused by the platter sensor(there is annother sensor that detects wether the platter is installed or not) it's actualy a simpler fix, you just need to short out the sensor so that it always sees the platter as installed. most of the ttx problems are caused by excess heat, i drilled a load of extra ventilation holes one of my decks, it probably helps since i havent had any more problems with that deck(when i got it it had a burnt out motor driver chip.)

in the end i actualy found the original sharp part on ebay. switched it over and all was good. my ttx's are still working good. i still have a spare motor controller and optical sensor for the next time one breaks, but more than likley it'll be something unrelated that dies the next time.

i have a super cheeapskate skratch setup. the secret: buy broken things! i have used numark ttx1s from ebay, they are the old ones that break, but i've managed to fix them both so far, motor chips and plator speed sensors. i paid 100€ for one and 80€ for the other plus another 20€ in parts so far. a stanton sk2f mixer from a fleamarket that cost me 25€ had a broken line switch on one channel. 2€ fix. for a dvs i use xwax opensource digital vinyl system, which uses serato vinyls,20€ and a mixvibes umix44 soundcard.100€ with an m-audio trigger finger for cuepoints 40€ i wouldn't recommend the ttx1s to anybody without electronics expertise, and i wouldn't reccomend xwax to people who don't know how to compile programs under linux. or who care about features other than basic dvs.(performance wise xwax beats everthing else though) a friend of mine was looking to buy a turntable and a mixer, so i found him a pdx2000 and a vestax 06 on ebay.for a total of about 170€ i'm happy with my ttx1s but if i had to start over i'd get pdx2000s

mental idea, sounds good too! what other words are actualy writeable? v, m, n ,u, w, any scrabble experts out there? num num, is that in the dictionary? at a stretch you could have an A, if you miss out the horizontal bar. vw van man if that scratch is called the internet scratch, then the whole concept of writing things in ttm should be called "scrabble"

i found some 720k floppy disks at a second hand shop, they had pirated amiga games on them. finding out a way to format them was fun..... unfortunatly my floppy drive is on the blink, it manages to load the os about one time in 10. maybe those hxc floppy emulators are good idea. i'll see if i can find myself a cheap replacement floppy drive in the mean time. a couple of keys are a bit dodgy too, i think its going to keep me busy for while before i get it back in shape. it sounds amazing by the way, even if its going to take me ages to figure out exactly how to program it.

on saturday i went down to the fleamarket looking for some random thing i can't even remember anymore, the first stall i walked up to had a big pile of disco lights, so i took a closer look, BLAM! ensonisq mirage all in my face!!! me:how much? seller:80€ (in a morrocan italian accent) me:30€? seller: mirage, good stuff 70€ me: 40? seller: no. me: its got a wonky key seller:huh? me: and i need to find the disks, that'lll be a right pain in the arse. seller: i don't care, i'll sell it to somebody else. me: 45? seller: no. i don't make any money like that. me: be back in 5, i'm going to get a coffee and think about this coffee, google, ebay past listings.....ciggarette.... it has filter chips that sell for 60+ each!!!!! i'm so fucking on this. it's got 6 filters. even if its fucked i can make some money on this. me:i've only got 50. seller: ok but you give me annother 10 next time i see you. me, ok but i only give you the other 10 if it works. seller: you tight bastard. me: i'm from scotland what do you expect? i gave him the monney, then we shook hands and i walked off with a really fucking heavy bad ass sampler that will probably take me months to learn how to use. got home, plugged it it, the light came on and it asked for it's boot disk, the phone rang, "hey, are you ready? i'll be arround in 5 miniutes, we've got to be there at in 3 hours and its on the other side of italy" i've just got home, found the operating system disk and manual on the internet, but its sunday evening and i haven't got a single floppy disk. so there is nothing i can do except write about it on the internet and hope somebody cares.

i have mpc lust at the moment, after loosing an ebay auction on an mpc2000 classic, that went for £108, ( i only had 100£ in my paypal and the fucker sniped me in the last three secconds.) ive decided i need an mpc more than i need to pay the rent. after a bit of research i think what i'd like best would be a 2000xl with the fx board and individual outs. but they are so damn expensive,it seems that you can get an mpc1000 or even a 5000 for less. theres a possibility of an mpc5000 for €300 within a half hour drive of my house. sounds a bit too good to be true so i'll have to check it out in person.

just to out-hipster you all: i'm going to buy a fostex 4 track tape portastudio and stop using a computer for recording.

rather than switching which hand you scratch with, try switching which hand you wank with. your brain will reconfigure within a week!

turntables are commodities! finally... really the best thing about the technics is the spares are available. are super oem spares available yet? does anybody know when the patents expired? before the numark ttx came out? time somebody in the know wrote a decent article about the history of the super oem turntable. theres lots of stuff that's be worth knowing about these turntables. there are probably only a few people who have run dj equipment review website for long enough.

saw this thread, instantly though of charlie parker: , lots of "salt peanuts" vocal samples. nice work by the way.

when you find a compatible encoder, buy 20 and sell them on ebay "l@@k: ORIGINAL OEM maschine encoder replacement NOT MPC NOT SP1200!!!!!" BUY IT NOW:20$ Shipping : 199$

Supreme mpa is indeed a work of genius, under the hood it works like propelerhead rebirth, the tracks are pre-rendered before playback. which is how it manages to work on shitty phones. just like how rebirth could work on shitty old computers. how they get the pads to respond so quickly beats me though. i think they might have used the native(baremetal) sdk rather than the regular android sdk. the next version of android will support usb midi and low latency audio. i'd be a happy camper if supreme came out with a version of mpa that supports usb midi.

you'll never overload a 13 amp socket with audio stuff, worst come to worst you'll blow a fuse. british wiring and plugs are pretty much idiot proof. you basicly can't fuck up. even if you are an above average idiot. plug in too much stuff and the fuse blows. british plugs and wiring standards are fucking top notch, its the only place in the world that you'll find a ring main. around the world i've seen so much dodgy wiring, whole towns that run off a 32amp red ceeform, theaters without earth, fuse boxes with bits of metal in them instead of fuses because the fuse keep blowing, there's even a company here in italy that sells a gadget that switches on your circuit breakers automaticly when the are overloaded. just keep pluging stuff in till the fuse blows, even then the british 13 amp plug is good til about 16 amps, the conductors on a british plug are actualy bigger(larger surface area) than an industrial 16 amp ceeform, german schuko plugs are rated at 16 amps and so are italian "big domestic" plugs, even though they both have smaller conductors and no fuses. the only british wiring habit that causes me concern is the widowmaker: http://www.blue-room.org.uk/wiki/Widowmaker but unless you are plugging in stuff with 32a ceeform plugs into small theaters, you'll never see one. luckily.

thats not an amp, thats a network media player that happens to have an amp in it. nice.

wow, i'd totally buy one of these! are you thinking of putting it into production?

An Arduino Mount is a nice thing to have when you're prototyping stuffs with a breadboard. Otherwise, the USB cable tends to flop the board around when you're uploading from your laptop. Maybe you've had that experience already. wow such bling! i normaly just cover the bottom of the arduino with electrical tape to avoid shorting it on random stuff on my desk. i have protosheilds as well, which have a little breadboard on them, you can buy them on ebay for next to nothing.

i currently have a wobbly office desk i found in the street, but i'm thinking of upgrading to breezeblocks and an old kitchen countertop.

i used to have a laptop with a series of old cpu fans stuck all over it. a stand with a fan in it underneath, and a regular cleaning with compresed air. that was the only way to stop it from overheating in the italian summer sun. the fan that made the real diference was one that blew into the air intake. the rest were just for good luck. it was controling the lights via dmx, so i really didn't want it overheating mid show. unfortunatly during a cleaning session i forgot my anti static training and fried its usb controller. now i use cheap netbooks for this kind of thing.

once i made a circuit bent casio sampling keyboard, for a friend of mine, sounded great but was hard to keep musical. i though about doing this to the su10 but inside its just one big chip with external memory and maybe a dac. the casio had lots of diferent chips inside so there were more possibilities. on the su10 your can glitch the data bus and thats about it.

oh the long nights cutting up breakbeats with the su10 in one hand and a calculator in the other! i think i actualy cried a tear of joy when i used re-cycle for the first time i fondly remember my drum and bass tracks made with a yamaha MU20 sequencer/gm synth, the su10 and a crappy yamaha pss keyboard that miraculously had a programable two operator fm synth MASSIVE SUBS! that sequencer was such a pig to program i think it scared me for life. ironicaly i was much less productive when i upgraded to an atari st w/cubase. and subsequently gave it all up. the only thing i kept was the su10. at one point i had a vestax 8bit DJ sampler which i can't remember what happened to, it sounded awesome but had a funny habit of corrupting its memory when you switched memory banks.

i've done a few things like this with arduino, its all dead simple. you just call analogRead() for your analog pin where the sensor is attatched, scale it how you want with simple maths, then send it to the serial port as a correctly formated midi message. you probably want to debounce switches and send messages only when the sensor changes, but you'll get there in a few days. this tutorial tells you everything you need to know to send noteon messages via old fashioned midi cables: http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Midi?from=Tutorial.MIDI with an arduino UNO you also have the option of turning it into a usb midi device. http://www.instructables.com/id/Turn-your-Arduino-Uno-into-an-USB-HID-Mididevice/ if you can't be bothered with programing it yourself, you can just use the firmata fiirmware to connect it to max/MSP and do your scaling/sending messages stuff there. http://playground.arduino.cc/Interfacing/MaxMSP building a midi controller with arduino is really simple, it was the seccond thing i did with my first arduino after making an led flash. at the end of the day nearly all midi controllers are just a microcontroller in a box with some sensors /switches/pots attatched. Have Fun!

i took out my su10 the other day and had a play around with it. its not actualy the peice of crap i remember it being, it actualy sounds quite good in a gritty kind of way. it's a really limited sampler though. and the useless effects are a real shame. when i bought mine it was a really long time ago, when the choices were either the su10 or the akai s20(which cost a fuckload more) or the roland ms-1(which REALLY sucked) if you really want rid of it i'll pay postage! pm me.

those sneaky bastards........ its a good job i stopped using cracked software, now i just use buggy open source stuff that runs on linux. i suffer constant plugin envy........