16 pads with x/y/z control, 9 sliders with continuous pressure and multi-touch control. 2 rotaries with pressure and distance from the center, a bunch of pressure sensitive buttons.
i’d be very interested in picking one of those up for drum programming - esp with all the data that can be send out via it’s drum pads and the firmware being open source. hopefully the pads have good response, similar to akai mpc/lpd etc
so every drum pad is basically a mini x/y pad? this would be fantastic for controlling effects in something like traktor.
overall probably more aimed at apps like ableton than transport and levels control of traktor i presume with that layout. the 4x4 pads area is great, not sure about the rest. 2 sets of 4 faders seems an odd combination esp the horizontal ones, tho they could be used for track scrubbing twitch style. i’d buy a couple of them if the rest of the controller was turned into more pads tho
price aiming somewhere around 150 to 200usd?
edit: i presume each of the drum pads would send a noteon and noteoff on press and release, along with 2 cc’s for x/y coords as u move, aftertouch messages too and ideally 2 more cc’s for the relative x/y movements? would be awesome… midi feedback to light up the pads properly from software would be quite complex i presume tho - as you’d need to send x/y pos along with what color to light up. would also need a way of just lighting up a whole pad in a specific color to make feedback usable by the likes of traktor/ableton without some intermediary software to handle that.
yep - my guess wasn’t far wrong - they’re saying it’ll be fixed at 200$. i’m fairly sure i’d want to pick one up at that price. there again it’s half the price of a twitch so maybe i’d save up for that - not sure. very cool controller anyway. i’d be pursuaded if the pads are any good.