The under rated controller thread

[Morior]

I have to give a bigs thumbs up to the much underated Icon Istage, 48 assignable Led pads/buttons, and thats just on one view, you can scroll down for hundreds of asiignable buttons. I have at last count 96 buttons assigned to it, and using modifiers can just press a button to change the whole group of controls at hand. Fantastic bit of gear, only downside is that I can only assign 2 colors to the buttns. Im just waiting for Traktor to release the Remix decks Midi controls as the icon will be great for it. Plus its Cheap and pretty rugged. Love it!!

[monogammee]

I will put original Hercules RMX out there, because it's built quite solid and does it's job perfectly (not the greatest jog wheels of course). Maybe it's just my nostalgia for first controller but I liked the hell out of it.

[deevey]

I will put original Hercules RMX out there, because it's built quite solid and does it's job perfectly (not the greatest jog wheels of course). Maybe it's just my nostalgia for first controller but I liked the hell out of it.

+1 ridiculously well built unit, Like a Sherman tank, heavy as fuck and lacking in knobs, the buttons were a bit on the heavy side. But it felt like a real mixer under the hood and there wasn't much you could not do with it so long as you didn't need touch sensitive wheels.

Hercules were the first of All-in-one midi controllers way back in 2004 I belive it was, with the DJ console mk1, they deserve a big thumbs up for paving the way to where controllers are today.

[Patch]

Mouse and keyboard. Often overlooked...

[D-Kem]

The x session pro was my first controller and I still have it. Very handy for plug and play with ipad.
Twitch is great too but without timecode I find it lacking. A couple of pl-1s alongside it would be very interesting.

[Stewe]

BCD3000 for this oldtimer! It was damn good that Beri never updated it to 4k. Studio 4A looks nice but BCD layout was something unique.

[djelton]

Reloop Contour from here again(I sound like a fanboy already, gosh)

I mean, It's a decend, rough, solid modular controller, but oone seems to notice it, but everyone notices the Behringer equalient, which doesn't look right. + it has a great sounding 5 channel stereo soundcard

So if you raise the unit a little, it fits perfectly next to a bigger 4-channel club mixer and it would look in place, you wouldn't consider this a toy.

My goal is to get another one, so I have only take 2x small modulars, laptop, headphones to the club and use the club mixer without cluttering the DJ-booth with a big controller

[jprime]

Thought I don't think it's underrated....M-Audio Trigger Finger. I've used this with just about everything. Very versatile.

[bigherm16]

Torq xponent

[padi_04]

M-Audio(forget the 2 chan controller)

Xponent

I think the UC33 could use a little more credit.