You don't need to squeeze all functions into it. No serious DJ will solely use the iPad (except to brag to his friends).
- Give us a mixer, transport and loop section
- Give us 8 cue-points for two decks.
- Make it possible to switch on the fly from deck A/B to deck C/D (maybe with a swipe gesture?)
- Give us a way to scroll through our track library and crates! Go away from buttons. Implement sliders or something fancy which makes it really intuitive. On the VCI-100 I used the jog-wheel to navigate through the library.
- give us a way to control both chained and advanced effects. An X-Y pad does the trick quite well.
Most important: Go away from just converting what we already have as tactile controls (buttons/knobs/faders) and start thinking about the possibilities the touch-technology offers. Although not being user-friendly enough Reactable is a good example.
Just another app that emulates those controls (like EMULATOR) bores the shit out of me.
Part of my daytime-job is developing innovative multitouch-applications in different environments. I also got an iPad. If you're up for it I'd gladly help out with ideas, concepts, some coding etc.
Contact me through PM here or via
www.ali.dj for further details.
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