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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

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Last edited by Orpheus Is Dead on Aug-08-2005 at 12:12

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

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.