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Posted by _-MIl0 on Jul-24-2005 17:59:

Numark IDj ipod Mixer thingy

Know that the ipod thing has been posted befor but now its on the numark website, heres the link. Also the ttx has a new upgrade check it out

IDJ Mixing Console

Posted by sleepydragon on Jul-24-2005 18:55:

whats the upgrade for the ttx

Posted by Basstard on Jul-24-2005 19:16:

probably gettin mixed up with the CDX

Posted by _-MIl0 on Jul-24-2005 19:33:

Its Skratchworx where i learned about it, supossibly a variable motor, heres the
Link

Posted by sleepydragon on Jul-24-2005 19:49:

lol no wonder i didnt know about that upgrade my ttx has got that torque setting feature already on it i just presumed it was something thats always been on the deck.
The update must of been out a little while cose i got my decks at the beggining of june

Posted by _-MIl0 on Jul-24-2005 23:25:

Hopefully the one i just orderd has it

Posted by veezee on Jul-26-2005 03:46:

might aswell hook up 2 MD's to a mixer.. both are still not gonna have a PITCH CONTOL (I hope I am wrong). I dont think this will tap into any part of the professional market..

Jay

Posted by Omega_Blue on Jul-26-2005 05:05:

quote:
Originally posted by veezee
might aswell hook up 2 MD's to a mixer.. both are still not gonna have a PITCH CONTOL (I hope I am wrong). I dont think this will tap into any part of the professional market..

Jay

everyone's been saying this, but it's GOTTA have a pitch control. what the fuck would be the point if it didn't? there's a couple jog wheel-lookin things on the mixer, maybe they're integrating the pitch slider with that or something.. otherwise this would be the worst invention ever made. either that or it's a big marketing scheme- you have to buy two separate ipod pitch sliders with two separate ipods!

let's all make fun of the picture now

Posted by DJFrostie on Jul-26-2005 06:56:

I dont know about anyone else but the whole ipod thing is going a little to far i think, their annoying commercials were bad enough....but hopefully there is some way to change the pitch/tempo of the songs so you wont have to go two decks dan with it after paying a lot of money for something like that

Posted by T-Soma on Jul-26-2005 07:09:

Wouldnt it just be easier to buy a laptop?!?!? realy i think the idea of having a mixer made for ipods and having to buy two ipods is just stupid.

Posted by DJ_Ikronix on Jul-27-2005 00:53:

quote:
_ Turntable spindle receptacle enables placement of the iDJ on a turntable

That is the stupidest feature I have ever seen.

Posted by spdandpwr on Aug-08-2005 01:19:

Today i was talking to my friend who is in love with apple and showed him this and after a little bit of conversation i realized something. Let's say i have to dj a house party but i can't carry all my records with me because the party is at an apartment in san fran and i have no car...which means i have to walk from campus to the event. Most people in this modern day and age have ipods and most djs on the other hand don't have all the songs people may request. But if they have their ipods along you can use that to mix with for a house party. They can label the ipods with their info for security purposes too. I think i might buy one of these so all i have to do is carry the mixer to the event. There is one version with out pitch adjsutment (that version i guess would only be good for a mediocre dj who cuts) but there is also i version with a pitch adjustment that will soon be available and that will be very cool.

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000757040098

Posted by T-Soma on Aug-08-2005 02:13:

quote:
Originally posted by spdandpwr
Today i was talking to my friend who is in love with apple and showed him this and after a little bit of conversation i realized something. Let's say i have to dj a house party but i can't carry all my records with me because the party is at an apartment in san fran and i have no car...which means i have to walk from campus to the event. Most people in this modern day and age have ipods and most djs on the other hand don't have all the songs people may request. But if they have their ipods along you can use that to mix with for a house party. They can label the ipods with their info for security purposes too. I think i might buy one of these so all i have to do is carry the mixer to the event. There is one version with out pitch adjsutment (that version i guess would only be good for a mediocre dj who cuts) but there is also i version with a pitch adjustment that will soon be available and that will be very cool.

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000757040098

I dont think the house partie was a very good example... think about the speakers! Its gonna kill your back to carry them around! I still prefer being able to fit my laptop and dxm01usb into a large suitcase

Posted by Orpheus Is Dead on Aug-08-2005 12:05:

quote:
Originally posted by Omega_Blue
let's all make fun of the picture now

its got no pitch control but you can adjust the angle of your ipod. In that case its more of a futurist looking manually adjustable bed for mice.

Where will this go? now you have cell phones that also work as +5 gig mp3 players, in which you can download song directly via internet. I'm expecting dj consoles to eventually start looking like midi controllers with all everything (mp3 players) build into a 6 by 6 inch frame.

heh heh, although with the ipods you could pull a nasty trick, like dowenloading an obscure liveset and playing it while pointlessly twiddling knobs on the other side

Posted by Luke Cartwright on Aug-08-2005 14:58:

Saw this in the paper the other day and they said the price was gonna be around �300

It did say that you can hook a tt or cdj up to it as well though which makes more sense than 2 ipods cos who has 2 ipods

Total cost of this would be 2 ipods plus the console which would get you a pretty nice set up anyway lol

Posted by Lawn Gnome on Aug-08-2005 16:55:

You know, I'm an Apple fanatic and I've owned 3 iPods over the past few years. This idea intrigued me at first, but you have to realize... it is technically IMPOSSIBLE for these to have a pitch slider. The iPod cannot control pitch in hardware. It can do simple time-stretching and time-compressing for audio books, but precise pitch controls are not a function of the decoder chip on the 'Pod. So, for a 'console' like this to have a pitch slider, it would have to interface with the iPod like a hard drive and read MP3s from it, and then decode the MP3s itself. That means the iPod is just being used as a hard drive, and, well, it'd be cheaper and easier to just buy one big 200gb hard drive.

I don't see how this could work.

edit: On the other hand, for those 'obscure' songs I just can't find on vinyl, I hook my iPod up to a line in on my mixer. It works fairly well in a tight spot.