Are you there this year, Woody? What about RANN?

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Originally posted by cryophonik Are you there this year, Woody? What about RANN?

No. I didn't get a pass this year.


There hasn't been anything that excites me so far, except for the new Pioneer DDJ SZ. That thing is perfect for mobile DJ gigs & clubs where I have to take my own equipment. I want one!!!

It borrows heavily from the CDJ 2000 & DJM 900 the near perfect DJ controller.

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Originally posted by DjWoody No. I didn't get a pass this year.

Bummer.

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Originally posted by DjWoody There hasn't been anything that excites me so far,

There hasn't been anything that DOESN'T excite me so far! So many cool new toys this year, but probably only one or two smaller things that I'll actually buy.

The new Korg iPad studio thingy looks cool.

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Originally posted by cryophonik Arturia BeatStep looks sorta cool, and very cheap ($129 Retail/$99 street). May need one of these for the lappy. http://www.arturia.com/evolution/en...Step/intro.html

I'm not that interested in hardware, but I could use one of these. Small, simple, decent price. I've been wanting some drum pads and knobs to turn, but I don't want more that I need.

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Has anyone made a MIDI keyboard that doesn't suck yet?

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Originally posted by DJ Robby Rox I've never had a problem with FLs tech support till this day. (I've actually never used it till this day)

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Originally posted by floyd741 i think echosystm is a pretty cool guy. eh pwns robby rox and doesn't afraid of anything.

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Originally posted by echosystm Has anyone made a MIDI keyboard that doesn't suck yet?

Akai introduced the new MPKs, and it looks like they've upgraded the crap keybed that the old versions had. I don't know why one of these companies can't drop a decent Fatar keybed in their controllers.

http://www.musicradar.com/news/tech...boards-591995/1

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Originally posted by cryophonik Akai introduced the new MPKs, and it looks like they've upgraded the crap keybed that the old versions had. I don't know why one of these companies can't drop a decent Fatar keybed in their controllers.

Having a brand name keybed isn't so much the issue for me. The Novation Remote SL has a Fatar keybed and I found it horrible. Conversely, the Novation Impulse had a no-name keybed and was quite good.

Both keyboards were unusable due to terrible velocity curves. They each had about 6 curves, all of which were total crap. I couldn't hit anything below 80 with accuracy, but I also couldn't hit 127 without absolutely smashing the crap out of the keyboard. My old cheap as chips M-Audio keyboard had about 15 and most of them felt pretty usable.

Novation Impulse keybed with better velocity curves would be perfect. Unfortunately, it doesn't exist. Roland A-49 is as close as I could get, but the keys aren't full size (despite what it says on the box).

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Originally posted by DJ Robby Rox I've never had a problem with FLs tech support till this day. (I've actually never used it till this day)

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Originally posted by floyd741 i think echosystm is a pretty cool guy. eh pwns robby rox and doesn't afraid of anything.

Last edited by echosystm on Jan-24-2014 at 09:41

I wouldn't pay a single penny for anything that Arturia makes anymore.

Shoddy pile of shit. I bought the Minilab to use on my 2nd DAW and it was a dire experience of bugs and issues, not to mention a fiasco involving getting the analogue lab software authorised on my 2nd machine (not that I even used it, but that's not the point). Luckily I sold it on Ebay.

Then I know several people with failing Minibrutes.

Their customer support is a fucking joke. They are rude and arrogant and it wasn't until I beasted them on KVR that they even answered one of the 3 pending support queries. Then they responded with at least 3 lies (2 different support responses contradicting each other).

Oh, and then they sent me somebody elses login and serial details. I wonder who has mine

Avoid at ALL costs.

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Nord Lead A1. Sounds really good.

https://soundcloud.com/nordkeyboard...ts/nord-lead-a1

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Originally posted by echosystm Has anyone made a MIDI keyboard that doesn't suck yet?

you really have to pay for an actual weighted keyboard. DOn't understand why it is so fucking hard to realize people don't use onboard sounds and just want to feel. There is this mentality split between musicians and producers and rarely do you get both minds making 1 product. Either geared to one or the other. Even things like v drums , something that costs about 5k underwhelming in almost every aspect except the pad sensitivity. The 2k brain is well, not very smart and the thing just sounds fucking terrible.

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