How will VCI-400 work with 4 decks and 2 volume sliders?

**claudek** · 01-19-2009, 07:23 AM

FULL VCI-400 INFO HERE

I am looking at this new Vestax VCM-400 (meant to write that..mods can fix the header...), but I am wondering how it will work well with using 4 decks and only having 2 volume sliders, eq's , etc...

I mean if volumes are at say 80% on deck A / line A
and one switches the button to decks C/D mode and wants to mix in deck c..wouldn't it be at 80% too, without slamming the volume faders as fast as light to the bottow (0%)? I mean what will one have to do. I know a little about the "Software take over mode" , but I tried it with Traktor Pro running modifiers and do not see anything helpful or special about it. So, does this VCI-400 have something unique about its' midi?

**Sc1C** · 01-19-2009, 08:07 AM

You could set it up so that in your example (assuming that deck C is currently @ 0%) nothing happens to the volume of deck C until you reach the same % as it is currently set (0%). This would mean that you cannot raise the volume until you have put the fader to the 0% mark... Likewise, nothing would happen to deck A on changing back until the fader crosses the 80% mark.

I think I have that right, at work atm...

Or alternatively, you could map those long pitch faders to deck C and D volume. This is what i'd do considering there is a lack of crossfader for some reason?

**Whitey** · 01-19-2009, 08:21 AM

I had the same initial thoughts Claudek, until I read Ean's 'notable additions' a second time - one of them was the following

long tempo sliders (C/D volume control?)

So I guess Sc1C is correct

**Whitey** · 01-19-2009, 08:23 AM

there is a lack of crossfader for some reason?

Seems like a major miss, I wonder why they have not put one on this controller?

**claudek** · 01-19-2009, 08:27 AM

Yes, I was thinking of using tempo sliders for volume too..but this is not what Vestax are doing or it would say Tempo/level.Middle faders say levels. For one to slam the faders to 0 at light speed on decks c/d, is kind of a "poor man's " trick. I do not suppose Vestax to expect users to do this..or do they?

**Whitey** · 01-19-2009, 08:33 AM

How much do you think this 'bad boy' will be then?

Just because it's a higher number than 100 and 300 can we assume it will be more expensive than these 2?

It looks pretty cool, don't you think?

**Fresh** · 01-19-2009, 08:44 AM

Just to clarify this new controller from Vestax is called the VCM-400.
It is modeled after the VCM-100 (see Vestax website), not the VCI-100.
It is not a successor to the VCI-100.

And yes, it would be easier if Vestax just gave their products better names.