Decent Serato midi controller?

[Jimmy]

wassssssssaaapppppp! (im bringing it back)

 

i was just wondering if anyone knows of any decent midi controllers that will work good with serato. i dont have my heart set on getting one or anything, but if i kno of a product that can do what i want i'll get it.

 

basically i could do with something that easily controls, cue points and fx, and maybe auto loop.

 

i kno the dicers are great for cues/loops but i assume they cant do fx.

 

doob has a really useful denon controller

(http://www.westenddj...ment/DNHC1000S/)

but again, i think thats quite awkward for effect use, is that right doob?

 

i was looking into something like this...

http://www.westenddj...ipment/XONE-1D/

would that work? i kno i'd have to map it myself (is that well hard tho)

 

faderfox stuff looks wicked, but again, im in the dark with that stuff.

 

if i had traktor i'd just get an x1 or something, but i dont, so any help would be appreciated as im a bit of a noob with midi.

 

fanks

[Steve]

You can use the X1 with Serato.

[Jimmy]

i've heard it doesnt translate very well tho.

[d00ban]

The denon is pretty wack with FX as you need to swap scenes first.

 

I've heard the X1 is actaully pretty good.

 

To be fair, serato FX are just a bit shit and hard to map whatever you have in my opinion, which is why Vekked's 62 comments seemed quite promising

[Steve]

i've heard it doesnt translate very well tho.

 

Check out Konix's videos on it: -

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qALRfhykqpY

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOUemIhX04I

 

At the start of the first one, he lists some other controllers too, but he's probably the most knowledgeable person I know when it comes to Serato and he favours the X1.

[Jimmy]

cheers steve, will watch those l8r

[Chris]

The novation zero SL mk2 is really cool too if you don't mind mapping it (mapping is really easy in scratch live)

[broma]

Konix's voice is awesome

[DJ Rock Well]

The denon is pretty wack with FX as you need to swap scenes first.

 

I've heard the X1 is actaully pretty good.

 

To be fair, serato FX are just a bit shit and hard to map whatever you have in my opinion, which is why Vekked's 62 comments seemed quite promising

 

I think the 62 has both good control of the FX in Serato, plus it's own built-in hardware FX.

 

I met quite a few Serato users who swear by the X1 too.

[Jimmy]

mmm, thanks guys.

for some reason i have a personal vendetta against NI, im not sure why, i just dont like them, in the same way i dont like Florence and the Machine.

 

i probly wont buy one if the X1 is the best option.

[broma]

You can always do it on the cheap and get something like this and just assign all the stuff however suits you: http://www.westenddj.co.uk/Product/AKAI/Computer_Audio/LPD8/

 

It's what I ended up doing. It's not perfect by any means but gets the job done and is light and portable.

[Chee]

You can always do it on the cheap and get something like this and just assign all the stuff however suits you: http://www.westenddj...ter_Audio/LPD8/

 

It's what I ended up doing. It's not perfect by any means but gets the job done and is light and portable.

 

I just bought an Akai LPD8 today, I had been looking at the Novation Dicers for a little while but decided that I wanted the knobs for controlling Serato's DJ FX. It's definitely not perfect, but for the price point its a great piece of kit. Much has been said about Akai's build quality, and the LPD8 seems to follow this tradition. I had no problems mapping the pads and knobs in SSL, but didn't seem to find a use for the Control and CC functions. It's too bad that there are only 8 pads total, so you can't really map the 5 cue points you can set in SSL per turntable. But still, from my tinkering today, I'm happy with my purchase.