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one of my ttx1s started playing up today, basicly it started playing realy fast then realy slow randomly. does anybody know if this is the motor chip, or the platter sensor, or something else? i already replaced the motor chip on this deck, but the symptoms were different. it took a really long time to start. it was about a year ago that i replaced its chip. i have a spare chip, so if its that i'm happy, also the platter sensor is an easy fix.

that lexicon unit looks like a good bet, it works as a plugin, and, you get to keep it when they drop software support!

wow, that went right over my head, this confirms my long held suspicion that DV truly is a place of culture!

open labs? lick? forgive my foolhardyness, but i havent got the faintest clue what you're on about.

yeah, i'm pretty sold on the idea of an mpc 1000 with jjos. the smaller pads are not really a big deal, what i need is a box with a sampler and a sequencer in it that just works and lets me switch my computer off. something i can switch on and start making music, i haven't made a proper track since i sold my midi sequencer last century. i've tried cubase, ableton live, and lots of other daws but i just can't concentrate on a proper computer. i want something with a small, hard to read lcd, that can't load plugins.and dosent have a web browser. daws are good for recording though, having as many compressors as you need without selling the car is great.

nice waffles. i should be working now, but instead i'm going to try doing boomerangs with the fader open. it would have been more romantic if you lit the candles though.

although i'm thinking they must be crazy to put windows on that thing, it does kind of make sense. the last few iterations of the mpc were all pc based short shelf life bits of crap with an mpc personality. supporting windows software for the lifetime of a studio product is a lot of work. so like this they get to keep the codebase from the mpc Renaissance, and they don't get stuck supporting yet another bit of software through the next 3 versions of windows. as soon as i feel rich enough i'm getting an mpc, but i'll be staying away from all the usb controller things, thats for sure. i'd be more likely to buy this than the renaissance, but i'l probaly get an mpc 1000.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ix.com.android.CustomSoundboard&hl=en this one? it has looping but i never tried it with a looped beat, i just use it for playing samples.

replacing a pot is not hard, finding a pan pot the exact same size can be a pain sometimes though. i do these kind of repair for friends quite often for the low low price of 1 bottle of single malt whiskey, but unfortunatly, i live in italy so i can't really help. you should be able to take it to just about any music shop that does repairs and they'll fix it for you in the time it takes to find the pot plus 15 mins on the workbench.

thats sweet! the 07 isp is a pretty crazy mixer, do you have a quadraphonic sound system? how do you make you boards? photocopies/ironing/acid, or something more hightech? its passive reverse riaa amp if i understand correctly, i was looking for a circuit digarm online a while back but didn't find anything, could you post the circuit diagram?

http://www.boombappz.com/ su-preme mpa i found this the other day whilst looking for something completly unrelated in the google play store. its the best music app i've ever seen on android. its realy just a little mpc in an app. i was totaly suprised that it has enough functionality to actualy make beats with! it even works on my crappy chinese android phone! enjoy! http://youtu.be/HXh5RSoW98Y

you heard about laurie andersen and her tape bow violin? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Anderson

I feel like your logic here MAY be on thin ice a bit. More grooves means more little edges digging into your fingers. Less grooves means less of those. As far as I know, between grooves on a record it's not like a flat plateau of shiny vinyl... it just rises from the groove, and there's a hump which is more or less steep depending on how near the next groove is, and then it descends into the next groove. It's like a road, which when you look close is very bumpy with little pebbles etc. That's so there's more friction between the tire & the road. That's why roads are not made out of glass, or flat vinyl. This is basically a guess though, just carry on if the grooves on the record were radial, then you'd be correct, but they aren't. your right that the record has a larger surface area with more grooves but less of the record touches your fingers like this. if you don't beleive me try scratching using the inside runout of the record. its much more "sticky" i've been scratching with only the dvs since i posted this, and i'm not really noticing it any more. so i guess ive been making a fuss about nothing. if one day serato make a control vinyl with more widely spaced grooves i'll buy it though.

kut_klass: i was suspecting this was the case. i'm pretty much the only person i know who's into scratching so i don't get to play with other people setups very often and yeah, when i do it takes me a few minutes to adjust, i don't feel its a problem for most stuff but trying to do those fast repeating transforms made me notice the difference. it's like the vinyl is harder to pull back and release quickly without it slipping under my fingers. hopefully it'll go away if i scratch with serato vinyls more often. i normally just use them for practicing beat juggling. my xwax setup is pretty decent though, i get 2.9ms total latency which dosen't seem to be shoddy with respect to what people were reporting with traktor recently.

i'm using xwax so switching to traktor vinyls isn't a problem. or mixvibes for that matter.

try the transformer challenge thing that chile put up recently, first with a copy of scratchy seal and then with a serato vinyl. if nobody else can feel the difference maybe i am suffering from the equivalent of audiophile "golden ears" and should probably stop talking bollocks accordingly. Symatic: thats the black serato's i have too,

i always knew that serato vinyl felt diferent but today i realised exactly why. at first i though that when my serato reccord were worn in a bit they'd get less slippery, but alas.... on a real scratchy seal the groves are much further apart, so when you touch the record more of your hand is actually in contact with the record. on the serato records the grooves are tightly packed resulting in a smaller effective surface area. i've tried both the older coloured vinyl and the black performance series serato vinyls, and the coloured one is a bit nicer, and side a is better than side b but only when your hand is closer to the center of the record which isn't that helpful. it'd be lovely to have a serato vinyl that had wider spaced grooves. what if we all go over to the serato forums and complain that we need a new control vinyl with wider spaced grooves.?

probably the best bet is to go to an electronics shop with an old fader cap and try to find on thats the same size. you can make you own knobs out of wood or plastic with a file and a bit of patience. i wish i could find some decent replacement fader caps for my m-audio trigger finger, it has shitty little ones that keep falling off and arent really big enough to hold on to.

http://www.makeymakey.com/ not quite what your'e looking for but not far off. theres lots of ways to do this. depending on what stuff you have access to. wireless would be cool. the simplest solution would be a load of wireless mikes and a multi channel soundcard. there are plugins arround that trigger a midi note on a peak in the auduio input.

i'm going analog, dvs is easing the way.

you can plug a metric shit load of stuff into a British 13a socket, and if you overload it then the worst thing that happens is the fuse in the plug blows. when it comes to studio gear, 2500w is a lot.

my brother has this and it's great fun. i can totaly see the attraction of this for preparing sets on the bus, tagging files and setting up cue points etc. but i'm not sure i could turn up to a gig expecting to be paid for playing with an ipad though.

no idea about traktor specdificly but the latency in any given realtime audio system is constrained by a number of factors: glossing over some minor details....... 1. input latency: how much time it takes for the computer to get the input audio from the soundcard. input latency is constrained by how fast the connection between the soundcard and the computer is(bus speed), and how big the chunks of audio data sent are.(frame size). 2. processing latency: this is how long it takes the computer to process the audio. it is constrained by processor speed 3. output latency: how much time it takes to send audio data to the soundcard.like input latency this is constrained by the speed of the bus and the frame size. 4. realtime scheduling: in a normal computing situation the computer just tries to do everything as fast as possible. in a realtime system, certain events have to happen at a specific time NO MATTER WHAT. audio must get delivered on time, but things can be drawn on the screen at leisure. support for realtime scheduling vary from one operating system to another. linux is king of the general purpose operating systems in this respect(with PREEMPT_RT enabled), but windows7/8 and mac osx are far from shoddy. xp sucks. things that can improve your latency are: make sure there are no other programs running in the background(antivirus, skype, etc) try turning off your wireless too. keep your audio card on a separate usb bus from your hard disk. if the bus is busy then the sound card won't get it's audio delivered on time. try switching things around on your laptop, most laptop have two separate usb busses. if you have a fast processor, use a higher sampling rate. this might seem counterintuitive, but it does help in many cases. try a smaller frame size( this may be called a 'buffer' in your software) you may have separate setting for input/output/processing. on a usb1 soundcard you can't get a smaller frame size than 128. because thats the smallest chunk of data you can send via usb. not sure how low it goes in usb2 pci cards can get lower latency than usb. because the pci bus is faster and can transfer smaller packets. there is always *some* latency. even sound traveling through the air gets latency, at a rate of about 1ms per meter(can't remember the exact number) its hard to notice less than 3ms all software lies about its latency too.

if your prepared to be a nerd, just google 'xwax', 'jack', and 'sooperlooper'. you will need linux and a lot of time to read and understand all the manuals. but what you want can indeed be done. for free, if you have the patience.

i can't honestly remember where that quote came from, i could have been either one in the original and you'd still get the idea. but maybe i like yours better i suppose it depends if you interpret it in the sense than possessions are impermanent, or in the sense that the whole concept of possession is an illusion. i'd never considered dying in the proverbial shipwreck, i always imagined myself washed up naked on the beach of some Mediterranean county where i couldn't speak the language. slowly learning the language and then making a living as a craftsman and marrying some local chick. i guess that marks me as an optimist. of course if i do die in a shipwreck i'm not going to be in a position to give a shit about what happens to my midi controllers anymore.