Who else thinks the touch sensitive trend is the wrong direction to go?

[Xonetacular]

^ lol, that was good and perfect timing

[nem0nic]

Not that I called you out, but you're engaging in the same kind of douchebaggery on these forums that got you banned on 2 different accounts on DJF.

You expressed your opinion in your OP. Party expressed his opinion in a response. So stop whining that someone had an opinion in a thread you started. Are you just salty because he doesn't have the same opinion as you?

[Karlos Santos]

there are some members here who know me from another forum and like to act like assholes and troll me for fun where that kind of posting is condoned and encouraged. I just ask they keep that behavior over there.

I dont know you from anywhere. I dont go on DJFORUMs im too busy in another place.

I disagree with this thread.

Touch sensitivity is an interesting addition to DJ equipment.

Its hardly a "direction" its just a tool that some people are using to great effect. And some people are using badly.

Nothing new here but definitely interesting. Is it DJing , probably not. But then big things can be applied to other things and become DJ things.

Its all just things, and im interested in things.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptyH_...eature=related

Never rule anything out.

[Xonetacular]

@ nem0nic I'm just going to add you to my ignore list. It makes things simpler than taking your typical troll bait and carrying on this pointless argument and preventing future ones from starting.

@Karlos, you might, I do post of NI forums once in a while. Also the Reactable is in no way anything near a DJ controller as you said and the surface is not touch sensitive at all. I believe all movement is traced by cameras under the glass top.

[wrong chris]

lol at the guy who wouldn't trade a uc33e for a lemur. that's like not wanting to trade a honda minivan for a new porsche

...

hmm...

a honda minivan is a utilitarian vehicle at an affordable price-point that has a myriad of practical uses, where as a porsche is an expensive 2 door show pony for middle aged divorcees.

i guess that's an alright comparison, but i'd give the lemur a bit more credit than that :P

[Karlos Santos]

@Karlos, you might, I do post of NI forums once in a while. Also the Reactable is in no way anything near a DJ controller and it uses blocks with patterns and if I recall correctly the surface is not touch sensitive at all. I believe all movement is traced by cameras under the glass surface.

Ive seen people touching the surface.

Yeah , i plead dumb on the Reactable ive no idea how it works, and i know (as i said) its not a DJ controller . My point is that you shouldnt rule a technology out until its exhausted.

I had huge doubts about the DaScratch, that was until i tried one.

Open minded.

[Xonetacular]

Ive seen people touching the surface.

Yeah , i plead dumb on the Reactable ive no idea how it works, and i know (as i said) its not a DJ controller . My point is that you shouldnt rule a technology out until its exhausted.

I had huge doubts about the DaScratch, that was until i tried one.

Open minded.

Yeah you can touch the surface but it isn't touch sensitive. Anyway, I had huge doubts about Da Scratch and they were confirmed when I tried it, that's why I made this thread to see what the general consensus is about touch sensitive controls.

[pier]

The future of controllers is nanotechnology

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX-gTobCJHs

Touchscreens have the advantage of being completely customizable by software (except dascratch).

Physical knobs/faders are more analog... but it's always the same.

Nanotechnology could bring the best of both worlds... if we live enough to see this kind of technology in action.

[DJPhaidon]

Yeah you can touch the surface but it isn't touch sensitive.

The Reactable is multi-touch sensitive, in fact, and is running an open source multi-touch program that allows anyone to make a multi-touch table interface for controlling anything really. Fact check

@Xone, I don't know you from anywhere other than here, but if you take a look at almost every thread you've commented in, multiple people have commented on your douchbaggery other than the people who know you on DJF.

And being that when starting this thread you stated that "I won't use anything touch sensitive and I've tried them all", of course excluding the multi-touch sensitive Reactable, was simply to start an argument that you can argue till blue in the face, that in reality very few let alone yourself have little actual ground to fight on considering how new the technology actually is vs. your claimed experience with it is.

[nem0nic]

I think that for software and hardware to remain synchronized, it's important that future controllers are able to react to software values in some way (that's half the use case, isn't it?) Right now, touch sensitive devices offer that functionality easier and at a lower price point than traditional (motorized) controls do. So it wouldn't surprise me if some developers embrace it in future controllers.

But it's not a trend. When companies like DJTech have a couple touch controllers in their lineup, and more than one company is selling them in stores like GC, THEN I'll consider touch controllers a trend.