New Upcoming Controllers from NI (Kontrol S8 thread)

[Karlos Santos]

*drool*

[chicomodo]

The future of NI resides on the software part.

We already have buttons, touchscreens, jogwheels, touchstrips, knobs, faders... Even lasers and motion sensors! So, it doesn't make much sense bring a product to run behind all those different manufacturers out there. They SHOULD make TP stronger, flexible and more customizable.

[padi_04]

Brace yourselves, Virtual Seraktor Pro DJ is coming.

[rdej47]

Native Instruments has just signed a deal with a controversial artist to be the poster child for Traktor Pro 3. Behold DJ R.Kelly. Native Instruments will only release R. Kelly remix sets. Most of which is the sound of flutes and hi fidelity urine samples.

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[ekwipt]

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I mocked these up a while ago.

I'm yet to really use F1 to their full ability, i think i'd rather see 4 X1s flipped horizontally (2 x2 stacked) with horizontal touchstrips, it makes way more sense to me anyway. Also with no mixer as i use an external one.

So hopefully NI would come up with a Maschine Pro style LEDS for each deck

[Notanon]

Would love to see something like this as an addition to a future lineup. Bit of a mockup I did a short while back.

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[Sambo]

I feel that the whole built in screen thing is farcical. I have the Maschine studio and regularly use 2000n's and if say tomorrow, the Greek God of screens (Visionicus?) came down and banished all embedded screens from DJ/Producer hardware, I genuinely wouldn't be that worse off.

[JoeGrime]

Firstly I don't see anything new coming for a few months at least unless NI spring a big surprise which I suppose is always possible. I think NI has done a great job with its modular units such as x1/z1/f1 which allows DJs to use in any combination effectively allowing us to put together the functionally we need individually as DJs, I would like to see a modular jog wheel unit although I think NI is concentrating more on touch strips and if we do see a new controller I imagine the jog wheels may be one of the first things that disappear in favor of more f1 style features. The remix deck is feature that is greatly under used IMO and also a feature that has a huge amount of potential for future development. I know many people wish to see maschine incorporated better with traktor and I'm sure this is a possibility either within the existing remix deck or maybe as a new flavor of deck, maschine deck?? With all this being said any new controller would need a lot more pads and with space being limited (I see many complain about the size of the s4 and it not fitting in booths) it brings us back to jog wheels being replaced by touch strips which I think could actually be a good comprimise and the gestures used would work well with any future maschine intergration (editing samples etc. Finally hi res screens seem very gimmicky to me on a DJ controller. The idea of the screens on something like maschine studio is to take the producer away from the computer screen but a digital DJ needs to see the screen for a variety of reasons and until we get controllers with their own OS that only need a usb stick/hard drive hi res screens just seem a little redundant and also would push up the price

[Pippo91]

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my dream become real if the new Traktor incorporate Maschine (or maybe a light version specially done for Traktor as a plugin) in place of one track/remix/live input deck.. so we can use Maschine as a MF Twister already do.

[Stormcaller]

I feel that the whole built in screen thing is farcical. I have the Maschine studio and regularly use 2000n's and if say tomorrow, the Greek God of screens (Visionicus?) came down and banished all embedded screens from DJ/Producer hardware, I genuinely wouldn't be that worse off.

There is no Greek god of screens but there is a patron saint of television.