I need faders.

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I need faders.

I’ve got a 4 deck setup on Traktor, controlled by a Launchpad (mostly for transport and cues) and a BCR2000 (mixer and FX). At the moment I’m using the rotaries on the BCR for channel faders, which is a passable solution - but is really irksome for fast cuts. What I’m looking for is a £100ish solution with at least four vertical faders. I’ve got a NanoKontrol but those tiny plastic faders? Just no. I don’t use a crossfader so that’s a non-issue. Any ideas?

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UC-33e for all your fader needs.

Xone: 1D if you only want 4 faders.

Both available on ebay for around the £100 mark right now…

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Thanks for the quick response. That Xone 1D looks pretty ideal really (shame about the depth of the unit, suppose that’s just mixer height though). I’ll have a snoop around, and that jog wheel - yummy browser mapping opportunities.

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Hijacking a bit… And giving a suggestion.
I’m thinking about the BCF 2000, has 8 faders… Seems handy both for Traktor and Ableton Live purposes for me. Don’t have it yet though, so I don’t know the quality, maybe someone could fill me in?

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Well having the BCR2000, I can say something about the build quality of those units. They are tanks. With remapping has come constant abuse with marker pens, tape and the like. One caveat I would remark on is those top row encoders which are on the BCF2000 too. They aren’t great. They can be a little unresponsive at times, I don’t know whether that’s because of their function as a button too - but I always try and avoid them for crucial parameters. I’m sure those massive faders rock though.
The only downside is the size. These things were not designed to be compact, and I cant help but feel that the hollowness you feel when you pick it up could have been helped by squashing it all a little to help the heftiness of the thing. This is the reason another BCx2000 unit wouldn’t be ideal for me, imagine the size of a Launchpad and two BCR’s AND a MacBook next to each other.
But I must say, the value of those units is phenomenal.

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I was thinking of building some sort of stand for them, like so:

|
|
|Laptop
+------+
\       <-BCR/BCF on a slope
\
\  BCR/BCF (maybe on a slighter slope)
+---------+
|  Launchpad
+--------------+

This would be a massive thing to bring to a club though, and would mostly be used when doing “gigs” with my own productions etc. (then using Ableton). As for regular DJ-gigs I think I’ll just bring the launchpad and use the in house mixer…

Edit: Forum doesn’t like my ascii-art. But the idea is that the laptop would be on top, then a Behringer unit on a slope, then the other on a slighter slope and the the launchpad under the whole thing.

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Seems like using a BCx unit of any kind warrants some kind of space-saving.
I’m actually looking into laptop stands not for the screen elevation so much as the ability to possibly tuck the BCR2000 under it a little to compact my setup a little.
I personally don’t like the idea of using faders on a slope. I don’t know, long fades on a steep slope just seem very awkward to me.

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I was thinking this too, that’s why I’d probably have the faders on just a gentle slope/flat… Will have to some cardboardcutting to see how deep the stand would be though… I guess if you consider it more of a gig/concert it’s still kinda small compared to drums, guitar, bass, amps etc. though so we should be happy. :wink:

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Ha yeah true that I guess. Either I’m getting bratty or just too used to tiny tables, booths.

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if you like the 1D and think it’s too tall just wait a month and pick up a K2 :wink: i know i will be… no big jog wheel but does have some biggish encoders - which would be fine for track browsing at least