This is still a work in progress, so no finished pictures yet, but I thought y’all might be interested in the working drawings anyway.
Basically we’ve taken an old electric guitar body, used a router to cut an MF Pro sized hole in the middle and a small sheet of acrylic to the back to run the wires too. At the edge of the guitar there is 2 female/female USB adaptors so the wires remain internal, but the MF itself can be removed from the front.
Currently in the process of reattaching the neck to the back of the body to allow space to attach a small Akai keyboard to it and then run the wires back to the other female/female USB.
The idea is to be more mobile and have a larger performance aspect to a set. A lot of the places I play I am on a stage and it has always been a bit awkward just standing still.
I’ll post more pictures as we go, but let me know what you all think!
If your going to ruin music with effects you may as well do it in style I guess! here is a photoshop mockup…
It would all be mapped to effects, the 3 sliders would ideally be spring loaded toward the center and on a slight angle so you get the action of strumming strings. Matt Bellamy style kaoss pad, midifighter 3d, led pots from the novation nocturn for eq volume and loop size. On the neck you would cannibalize the midifighters shift buttons and use 3 6 inch touch strips so you can use both hands. You could probably make a shift to activate the 3d’s accelerometers but I wouldn’t suggest they stay on. Then use VDJ8 to run it cause traktor is too limited!
last one… this is actually pretty cool, the guitar ones are a bit too wanky, this is just wanky enough… I would never use any of 'em but there fun to draw
mapping in vdj7 already blows the pants off traktor - i’m sure that vdj8 with all it’s new bells and whistles will be a lot more usable than traktor. so yep - i guess he did say that
Hells yeah! I said the shit out of it! I meant it too… when I was drawing them I was thinking of the mapping for it and traktor couldn’t come close without midimasher or another middleware program Traktor is better presented yes, but the dev team at atomix have created something that the user base can modify to suit their needs, with almost no limitations.
It’s really strange that no one ever really understood the potential it has all because of a toy like skin and a crap name, but VDJ8 should be exciting, although I’m pretty sure the two things everyone hates “skin & name” are staying. But that’s cool the name doesn’t bother me and I can make skins, so can anyone else!
I’ve always thought that if the VDJ guys sorted out the settings menus and shipped with a really slick default skin they would be taken a lot more seriously.
I’m sorry but, you just cannot compare VDJ to Traktor or Serato. Especially with the names that they have using their software compared to VDJ’s DJ List. Seriously, if it was better, you’d think more people would use it no matter what it looked like or if it had a shitty name.
Virtual DJ was the first thing I started out on using just a Computer Keyboard… When I started using Traktor, I realised how much better it was and started using it. At that point I had never even looked up what popular DJ’s and Producers use to DJ, otherwise I would probably be DJing using Ableton or Serato.
EDIT: Therefore, IMHO, VDJ cannot be compared to Serato or Traktor and majority of people on this forum and majority of the worlds best Digital DJ’s will agree.
