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whiskers
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Registered: Sep 2001
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traktor midi controller advice / behringer bcd2000 questions

i've been looking into getting an actual hardware controller to get more into mixing (mouse sucks, i like knobs)

so far at US$140 i'm liking the behringer bcd2000 a lot, and i know it feels cheap and is a pain in the ass to setup with T3. i have a few questions for the people that use it though, since i wasn't able to find answers to these online:

anyone know if it runs on windows 2000? or is it only XP compatible?

is usb1.1 fast enough? are there any lag issues?

this is something i'm confused about: do i need a sound card built into the midi controller? right now i'm using my desktop for mixing and it has 3 dedicated outputs for 5.1 sound, so i'm using one of those for master and one for headphones. eventually, i plan to get a midi + laptop setup - would I need to buy a pcmcia soundcard as well? what's the deal here?

more general: i want to have jog wheels but i'm not really sure that i desperately need them. right now i'm using automatic beatmatching in traktor but mostly because it's a pain in the ass to do it manually with the mouse, wishing to learn to do it better manually is one of the reasons i want to buy a hardware controller - the goal is to not use the mouse at all, maybe only for queueing up tunes.

the vestax vci 100 also looked nice but it's quite over my price range (under US$200)
numark total control looks very sweet even though at US$250 it's over my budget, but it doesn't have a built in sound card (not even sure if i need it) and i do not wish to spend money on a product that hasn't been out long enough for people to evaluate it and write reviews.

anybody know anyting about the numark total control? any no-nos about the bcd2000? any help appreciated.

edit: also, are there any advantages to spending US$60 more on bcd3000, which i hear is the same hardware but with fixed firmware?

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nousplacidus
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Registered: Jan 2007
Location: Honolulu

quote:
Originally posted by whiskers
(mouse sucks, i like knobs)

Thats what she said.

Sorry sorry, IMO you should let the software do the beatmatching, thats the advantage of the computer setup. I wouldn't worry to much about the jog wheel, its not as though you're going to be scratching with it.

Although most of that is taken from an Ableton mixing point of view, so you're mileage may vary. And to be real I just wanted to make some sort of contribution to the thread so I could post my horrible joke above.

Still, I stand by my advice.

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Shemeck
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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Miami

quote:
Originally posted by nousplacidus
Thats what she said.

Sorry sorry, IMO you should let the software do the beatmatching, thats the advantage of the computer setup. I wouldn't worry to much about the jog wheel, its not as though you're going to be scratching with it.

Although most of that is taken from an Ableton mixing point of view, so you're mileage may vary. And to be real I just wanted to make some sort of contribution to the thread so I could post my horrible joke above.

Still, I stand by my advice.

jog wheel is very important!!
once, I was forced to use Torq once without any cdjs, turntables, and let me tell you, most of the time the program will beatmatch correctly but they were times when i was frustrated because it didnt sound right and i wasnt able to do corrections