Controllers: Who owns them?

[04ghc]

I work for the Ministry of Sound in London, specifically for the DJ academy, we are just gauging how widespread the popularity of Midi controllers are. I thought DJTT was probably a great place to start!

Cheers for all the replies thus far. Keep it up.

[kodiak]

I work for the Ministry of Sound in London, specifically for the DJ academy, we are just gauging how widespread the popularity of Midi controllers are. I thought DJTT was probably a great place to start!

Cheers for all the replies thus far. Keep it up.

Wow, I think you're in for a challenge. There is no "industry standard" at this point for midi controllers in my opinion. I mean, you've probably got Technics 1200s, DJM800s, and CDJ1000/2000s for the academy, but what on earth will you do for a midi controller? There's a million of them and they all seem to work in very different ways. A NS7 works differently from a VCI-100, from an APC40, etc.

Good luck!

My vote would probably be to start with a few APC40s since they are 100% different from using turntables or CDJs.

[greatmesk]

DJ-Tech imix Reload
Behringer BCD3000
Korg Nanopad

(wish i had a pandaboard )

[eastcoastams]

Akai MPD 24
Novation SL MkII

[Karlos Santos]

Native Instruments Maschine
Native Instruments X1 (x2)
VCI 100
VCI 300
Faderfox DX2 (2nd series)
A Pair Of Human Hands

[04ghc]

Wow, I think you're in for a challenge. There is no "industry standard" at this point for midi controllers in my opinion. I mean, you've probably got Technics 1200s, DJM800s, and CDJ1000/2000s for the academy, but what on earth will you do for a midi controller? There's a million of them and they all seem to work in very different ways. A NS7 works differently from a VCI-100, from an APC40, etc.

Good luck!

My vote would probably be to start with a few APC40s since they are 100% different from using turntables or CDJs.

I completely understand what you are saying! We are in the very early processes of thinking about maybe doing a controllerism course. I myself have an APC 40 and we run an Ableton course with the launchpads.

If we do this course we will probably incorporate a number of controllers so I am just trying to see which ones are the most popular.

On a slightly separate note, we have a discount code running at 20% off for the summer, if anyone is interested pm me and I can sort you out.

Cheers Guys

[Ciar2001]

I completely understand what you are saying! We are in the very early processes of thinking about maybe doing a controllerism course. I myself have an APC 40 and we run an Ableton course with the launchpads.

If we do this course we will probably incorporate a number of controllers so I am just trying to see which ones are the most popular.

On a slightly separate note, we have a discount code running at 20% off for the summer, if anyone is interested pm me and I can sort you out.

Cheers Guys

Just missed out tonight I am having a private 1 on 1 with a guy who teaches Ableton actually coming to me house to teach it, for production rather than the dj side, I do all my mixing on Traktor Pro with my Xone 4D.

best of luck though

[GPS]

Vestax VCI 100 SE

-Gianmarco

[04ghc]

Just missed out tonight I am having a private 1 on 1 with a guy who teaches Ableton actually coming to me house to teach it, for production rather than the dj side, I do all my mixing on Traktor Pro with my Xone 4D.

best of luck though

Is that Jamie?

[Ciar2001]

Is that Jamie?

http://www.jakeone.co.uk/training/index.html

no this guy I have searching around trying to change my diary to try and fit this in, was in my mates studio producing stuff, but he is now moving out of London so that's stopped which means I can now finally get down to learning properly, can't wait to be honest.