Novation Nocturn Questions

[Dubba Dutch]

I have a love hate relationship with my Nocturn. I love the cross fader in the middle, led feed back on all the pots is great, but the resolution it sends is very very low for the price, the software is great for DAW's but annoying for Traktor. If your quicked fingered with your button triggering it's very easy to accidently hit the green lights under the midi buttons. To be fair you should never expect quality for it's price range but the Nocturn does feel very cheap in use.

That said there's a part of me that still likes it, but the poor resolution and cheap feel really lets it down.

[faeruithir]

Can anybody suggest a better alternative in a similar price range and a small size?

[TABS]

Here is your list of rotary controllers you could use for FX off the top of my head.

BCR2000
LPD8
Nocturn
X-Session
X-Session Pro
Evolution UC-16
Evolution UC-33
Kenton Spin Doctor
Xone 1D, 2D, 3D
Kontrol 1
Kontrol X1
Novation Remote Zero SL, and SLMK2
Korg Nano

[faeruithir]

Most of those are too big or an overkill of controls and most importantly no LED feedback

[shanDB]

I use a nocturn with traktor, and as someone has already said: I have a love hate relationship with it.

Firstly, It's initially quite complicated to wrap your head around assigning it - Simply because I found very little concise information on the net that showed me how to. Once I had figured it out it became simple enough..

I use it primarily to trigger my effects - which works great.
Occasionally I use it as a standalone mixer/controller (at gigs where I need to set up super quick after a DJ etc..) - It's fine for this purpose as well, although a little limiting simply due to the amount of knobs and buttons it has..

I've set up the "effects" on 1 page, and my "mixer" settings on another..

Things that disapointed me:

- I couldn't assign pages to the user/fx/inst/mixer buttons

- when I start using it for my set, I need to turn every knob and press every button so that traktor recognises the value (I've been caught out a couple of times where I have adjusted a track volume using the nocturn, and suddenly the volume shoots down to zero - not a good look)

- I busted one of the rotary knobs clean off.. Yeah it was my fault.. but makes me sad

Overall - is a great little cheap controller that has a fair amount of versatility. It's kind of plasticky in build quailty, so it scratches up easily, and I don't really expect it to last very long - but the price was good and it's something that I use at every gig, every weekend - So it's served me well..

I'm now looking at getting the Icon IDJ when it's released next month. Similar price to the nocturn - similar size, and a heap more buttons / fader etc which will really let me use it as a standalone controller for those times that I need one