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| Light The Fuse |
Ive been saving up for a new computer - so saving up for a new dj setup seems like a hell of a lot of money for a hobby.
so - these things for like a grand are a bargain for practice!!!
pacemaker pocket dj
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpOvipU0VeM
The Pacemaker is essentially a 120gig music player with a colour screen - nice. But it's considerably more than that. Built into this is the ability to fully mix your music using conventional controls - crossfading, EQ, pitch and looping. And all can be monitored just like a full sized mixer before releasing to master output. I asked the creator Jonas from Tonium in Sweden just how it's done:
As you know, if you are mixing with a full scale DJ-system, you have two decks and a mixer. Beginning your set you would start playing a track on the first deck and set the mixer to play it out on the speakers. Then you would most likely tend to the other deck and arrange with the next track, listening to it in the headphones as you set the cue point and appropriate pitch. This is all done in the same time as the other deck is playing the first track, and you are not touching that deck so you really do not need it...
This is the basic invention and patent pending idea of Pacemaker®; one can say that it is one deck with buttons that make it switch between two. So if you press channel button 1, it is deck 1 you are controlling. And analogue with that: if you press channel button 2, it is deck 2 you are controlling.
The loop function builds on the magical Pacemaker® P-button that switches all of the buttons into controlling the advanced features. The fast backward button switches to being loop in and the fast forward button switches into controlling the loop out point. To exit the loop, hold the P-button and press the CUE-button (looking like >< if you have seen the images), to re-enter the loop, hold the P-button and press CUE once more.
The crossfader works in a very similar way. There is one crossfader that switches between the headphones and the lineout output.
So it seems like there's some handheld interface juju at work here. I'm sure it'll take some getting used to but it does actually seem workable. I'm especially interested in the looping function and will be forwarding some ideas to Jonas about this as well.
If you all pop over to the official Pacemaker site this weekend, I'm sure everything will be revealed. In the meantime, have a scan over this explanatory PDF. |
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| James Brooke |
i would have to have a play with one before i even considered it... but cool idea none the less
would be mad to have a mix during my tram trips to and from work each day :D |
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| vman83 |
i crashed one at Store DJ
was the first time it happened... Marsh went blank
Besides that its getting some attention from people around the world and sean quin used one at a set recently and richie hawtins been thrashing one for a while now |
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| mmkoiman |
| i think was taken aboard one of those before.. |
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| EgosXII |
they're lame: have known about em for ages- they look -- why not just use ableton?
wow, a touch screen thing?? never seen one of those before..
get a kaos pad, learn to mix on decks and stfu. |
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| Light The Fuse |
| quote: | Originally posted by EgosXII
they're lame: have known about em for ages- they look -- why not just use ableton?
wow, a touch screen thing?? never seen one of those before..
get a kaos pad, learn to mix on decks and stfu. |
i did all of that and now i want one of these:toothless |
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| Sunhump |
these things look crazy! id actually consider buying one!
only things that are making me a bit "err " about it, is the fact that its a basic fade out of the first track and into the second, the levels dont seem really accesible and quik to use...
i could be wrong, coz that girl didnt explain it VERY well lol..
are they released in aus yet? |
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| Sunhump |
i just found a diff video on it from the beatport crew and it explains it alot better... and they are actually using trance :P which helps haha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1uPqvaUM80&NR=1
this looks insane! jules maybe we can get a special price for buying 2 :tongue3 |
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| EgosXII |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sunhump
i just found a diff video on it from the beatport crew and it explains it alot better... and they are actually using trance :P which helps haha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1uPqvaUM80&NR=1
this looks insane! jules maybe we can get a special price for buying 2 :tongue3 |
you have access to decks man, what would u want this fancy iPod for???
only good thing about it is that u can play with it on the tram, not sure that's worth $1000... |
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| Sunhump |
| quote: | Originally posted by EgosXII
you have access to decks man, what would u want this fancy iPod for???
only good thing about it is that u can play with it on the tram, not sure that's worth $1000... |
very true man! its more just an excited response haha.. ill be sticking to buying my new flash for my camera instead :P |
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| EgosXII |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sunhump
very true man! its more just an excited response haha.. ill be sticking to buying my new flash for my camera instead :P |
now ur talkin! :D |
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