Novation Nocturn
Anyone played around with one of these and Traktor?
I’m wanting to add it to my BCD3000 setup and use the 8 knobs/buttons to control Deck A and Deck B effects. I’m 99.9% sure that it will work exactly the way i want it to but sort of a little curious as to what people think of the unit aswell.
I’m also open to suggestions for cheaper alternatives, I only really need 8 additional knobs/buttons (although a few extra won’t go astray 
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Cheaper than the nocturn? 
Maybe a Micro controller by Behringer… otherwise… it’s pro’lly not possible.
its like $150 tops, not sure. I’m getting one as soon as they come out in NZ ( to be in combo with a midifighter and a digital turntable 
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In Holland it would cost around 95 euros.
(Almost same price as the M Audio X Session Pro.) 
ya the x-session pro is a little cheaper.. by about $20. and, id rather use that then the nocturn. thats just me though.
hmmm good suggestion… I can get the x-session pro for about the same price here in AU.
In Holland it is also the same price.
What does help:
Nocturn is more LED lit.
I want one of these so i can mod it with arcade buttons 
ill mod my VCI-100 with arcade buttons at the same time giving 12 arcade buttons per side which would translate well into 4 deck x 6 cue point juggling madness.
Changing the case it comes in will probably be in order so i can get the other arcade buttons as close as possible to the vci-100 arcade buttons. Can’t wait to get my hands on one
im converted, nocturn looks nicer n has some features I like, and LEDs, but the additional controls (like 4 faders!) give the xsession the win imo.
that plus a midi-fighter ftw!
I’ve decided to go the xsession as i have formulated a use for more controls than the nocturn offers (aside from switching midi pages but i don’t want to have to do that.
I’ll wait what impact a BCR2000 will have, than I will decide to either go for a “x session pro” or a “Novation Nocturn”.
Both are sweet as hell!
That’d be a sick amount of controllerism Bento I can’t afford any other controllers at the moment, hoping that the EG .tks with internal mixing appears soon…
The Xsession does not look too bad actually, but how many of those buttons are assignable ? I might pick up the Xsession instead and mod the buttons/case if enough of the buttons are midi assignable.
All are assignable.
I’m using a BCD3000 with traktor 3.3 default profile, only change being the pitch faders control fine pitch 2.5%
I’m thinking of adding the xsession to my BCD3000 setup and mapping everything as labelled in the attached image. The only other thing i was thinking of doing was setting the pitch faders on the xsession to coarse pitch control and making the range +/- 100%. Havn’t really thought of a use for the cross fader or EQ yet. Everything else seems like it will be a fun useful mapping.
In case its not clear:
Deck A/B volume will control Deck A/B effect amount.
The monitor buttons will toggle effects A/B on/off
and the buttons at the bottom of the unit will scroll through the effects and also give control for the additional functions where applicable in some effects (flange tap, T92 quantisize etc)
This is looking much more appealing than the nocturn…
EDIT: oh look the novation nocturn thread is turning into an XSession Pro thread
There is the Evolution X-session which i was mistakingly referring to is this one http://www.zzounds.com/item--EVOXSESSION - but all those buttons i do not believe are assignable - sorry for the confusion
The M-Audio Xsession - http://www.djtechtools.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=110&d=1211283790
So it looks like i am going back to plan A and modding the Novation Nocturn.
The Evolution is an X Session, the M-Audio is an X Session Pro.
Oh well 24 arcade buttons will be heaps
I just finished ordering a Novation Nocturn and 25 arcade buttons (1 for a backup). This should be interesting ill post follow up photos when i am done modding 
LoLz… Good luck with that one. When will the nocturn arrive mate?