Man, this a big fail on NI’s part. Hope they get this sorted asap.
Not sure what your point is. Maybe you should just say it a little clearer.
Same here. I’m a big fan of NI gear and dont want this to feed the usual NI quality hatred.
I’m in consumer product design. Quantifying, specifying, controlling and testing of these things is HARD. What do you put on the specification to your faceplate supplier? A Z2 is not selling in the millions, so there’s a limit to the testing and checking you can do as you need to sell it for a reasonable price (or in this case, at a price that will give you the best margin and you can still get away with).
Things like this happen and are a DISASTER if you are in R&D. You can’t specify and design to perfection. You have only this much time and money to spend and at one point you need to sell and earn money.
If NI is anything like where I work. They hope AS MUCH as possible faceplates are returned, so they can send a new one and maybe a voucher or gadget to win the customer over again.
It’s very likely that the faceplate manufacturer will pay most of the cost.
What bothers me more about th OP, is that the volume faders broke after 2 hours!
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I think what he’s saying (stay with me, here) is that something that was built in the 70’s still has all of the graphics intact, despite being played with by the OP in the 70’s, and now by his toddler.
OR - build quality was better in the 70’s was better for a Fisher Price TOY than it is for NI (ahem) PRO Audio gear in the 10’s…
Thanks, Patch. Don’t forget about the sheep reference. 
Ah, well, when you set the pointer to a sheep, and pull the cord, you’ll hear “A sheep says baa-aa”…
Batteries not required.
Can it be midi synchronised to a Maschine?
Manual beat matching only.
Strictly for pro’s and better.
Resized the image!
Nope, but you can circuit bend most Fischer Price stuff.
Then if you swap out circuit for pitch…you have pitch bend.
Then…you can ride the pitch around the bend, while saying BAAAA…at this time you hold onto the loop at the end of the string and give it a little tug every 3rd beat. That then makes it gate.
If you hold onto the string, letting it go in slowly…thats the Stretch Effect.
Smash it on the ground…and you have the Hawtin Effect.
Who needs a Z2???
So if I order a Z2 now, will I have the same problem with the faceplate or has this since been corrected?
Admittedly, it is a very technique-sensitive bit of kit.
Totally!
Maybe. If you do, they will send you a replacement faceplate free of charge when it’s available.
What a big fail. How they could not see this happening with test units?
I mean, I’m sure that all those DJs that made those promo videos had more then 30 hours of work to produce and record the routines, right?
This could only happen if the test units were not labeled or didn’t had the interchangeable faceplates that we are seeing on the market right now…
NI just doesn’t care.
I think the the plexi on the S4 & Z2 just looks so cheap.. we all know it will scratch up with normal wear and tear.
And NI should know better thinking the silkscreen would stick to plastic. they need to put it “under” the plastic so you can see it though the plastic or etch (or carve) it into the plastic and fill in the etching with paint.
i remember when i used to skateboard and there were kids that actually tried to save the graphics on the bottom of the board… we called them posers.
I think the difference there is that no one expect a skateboard’s artwork to last that long. A mixer isn’t quite the same.
LoL. and you probably rocked a Numark mixer in the 80’s to early 90’s with all of its graphics worn off (they were were “the” mixers back in the day, but they did start to loose the graphics after about 6 months and blank metal after about a year).
The graphics wear off on pretty much all mixers that are used hard. the concern here is .. it should last more then a few weeks.. not at this price. especially since he is not rail sliding it …