New Upcoming Controllers from NI (Kontrol S8 thread)

[thestroud]

Seen this pop-up, http://audioelectric.de/shop/product...ontrol-s8.html. In case it gets taken down, the info translated is as follows.

AUDIO ELECTRIC Price:
1,149.00 EUR

Native Instruments Traktor Kontrol S8 USB DJ Controller
The future of DJing is: With touch sensitive controls and high resolution color display, you focus on the music and the crowd. Develop with 4 + 4 Remix Deck Controls and pads your signature sound. Expand your DJ performance by the multi-color pads to live remixing. TRAKTOR KONTROL S8 defined DJing re: Do not change the game, change the rules
Touch-sensitive knobs control a large number of pop-up displays, display panels and
High-resolution color displays provide a direct connection to the music and the crowd
Develop with 4 + 4 Remix Deck Controls and pads your Signature Sound
Highly integrated 4-deck TRAKTOR controller plus TRAKTOR SCRATCH PRO 2 software
30 touch-sensitive knobs and faders for intuitive control of TRAKTOR software
Show 2 brilliant color displays pop-up displays, panels and settings
Touch Strips provide tactile control over track position, pitch bend and more
Quick access to track BPM and -Tonart as well as effects, filters and Remix Deck parameters
Touch-sensitive 4 + 4-channel deck Remix fader for fully integrated Remix Deck Operation
16 multi-color pads to trigger samples, cue-points, loops and beat-jumps
Two custom effect units with more than 30 studio-quality effects and intuitive macro-FX control
Built-in professional audio interface with excellent 24-bit / 48 kHz quality
4 analog inputs with phono and mic preamps for hooking up to 4 turntables, CD players or other external hardware
Works as a standalone mixer
XLR / RCA Master and ¼ "-Booth outputs for connection of main and Booth sound systems

Nice to see XLR outs at last, but unfortunately nothing much about the next version of Traktor.

[dstep]

August 29th that's just a guess doe

[Sambo]

"Intuitive Macro-FX control"...

I mean, the current macro FX control is just one knob, I mean you can't get much more intuitive than that.

Or can you?

Customisable macro FX confirmed.

EDIT: Also, €1149 means £1149. Absofuckinglutely no chance of me dropping that much dollar on NI hardware and I'm a massive NI fanboy. For all intents and purpose, it's got pretty much the same production cost as the Maschine Studio, so I have no idea why they can't price it as such. Where does the £400 mark up come from?!

[bobberman]

S8.jpg...Probably in 2 weeks something like new controller and soft, i have talking with someone who made demo at NI....

[ImNoDJ]

S8.jpg...Probably in 2 weeks something like new controller and soft, i have talking with someone who made demo at NI....

In other words you dont have any more info than anyone else.

[Karlos Santos]

S8.jpg...Probably in 2 weeks something like new controller and soft, i have talking with someone who made demo at NI....

More like someone that made coffee...

[goodbytes]

I hope it has jog wheels, i can't imagine DJ'ing without them, i wouldn't buy the S8 if it didn't have them.

[safefire]

I can't imagine that NI would leave out jog wheels.

They know they have to cater to every style and genre of DJ'ing, even though some genres are becoming less and less dependent on jogs.

I do hope they go the smart route and do 4x4 pads per deck, but have they figured out how to layout it? That will be interesting.

[ImNoDJ]

I can't imagine that NI would leave out jog wheels.

They know they have to cater to every style and genre of DJ'ing, even though some genres are becoming less and less dependent on jogs.

I do hope they go the smart route and do 4x4 pads per deck, but have they figured out how to layout it? That will be interesting.

Youve seen the picture. It doesnt have jog wheels, it has touch strips.

[Stewe]

I do hope they go the smart route and do 4x4 pads per deck, but have they figured out how to layout it? That will be interesting.

Splitting a Page Selector modifier in to two would do the trick.