2 Lemurs or Traktor S4
Since lemur is now available for the iPad, I’ve been playing with the thought of having 2 iPads running lemur and use my MF beatmasher (i still have an audio 2DJ). But the only issue I have is money and since I barely use the S4’s full capacity, would it be a good idea to sell it and buy a second iPad or still keep it?
Thanks in advance!
PS: i mostly play electro and dubstep 
Going from an S4 to touch app is a ridiculous idea.
you can try it but I’m not sure why you would want to unless you had a hardware mixer.
Some things are just inferior as touchscreens. EQ & Filter knobs being a case in point
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Hey lilja,
My current set up is an iPad running TouchOSC and a Vestax VCM-100 (not so popular, it’s a 2ch controller without jog wheels but has a built in Audio I/O).
The VCM-100 is there exactly for the reasons that lethal pizzle describes – it feels so much better twisting a knob than touching a screen to control certain things. For me, the most important was the Volume fader. With a touch screen, there is always that lag before you actually get to control it - namely, you staring at the screen and pointing your finger towards the right control. On a physical controller, you can get away with just glancing at it with the corner of your eyes.
Nonetheless, I was once DJing with two iPads and Deckadance only, because Deckadance’s midi customizability was so poor, I had to do a lot of that on the controller’s side and TouchOSC worked really well - and to tell you the truth, the experience wasn’t so bad.
Would I advise someone to go just with iPads? No. The conservative advice would be “sell your S4 and buy a K2 to complement your iPad”.
But I think I am going to give it a try and if you are interested in getting on the same ship, you are more than welcome. Let’s kick some tactile-contrilling-asses, what do you say?
Until yesterday, I was mustering up the courage to go with 2 TouchOSC’s and Traktor and I was almost ready… You of all people should understand how the appearance of Lemur made my decision final.
You really just can’t beat the feel of real knobs and faders, and I don’t think you get the needed accuracy with any touch screen.
You would need something with a few knobs and faders, maybe a DDM4000 or a Xone K2 if your on a budget.
Touch apps are really only good with ableton.