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I found this on skratchworx and looked interesting enough. Looks like Vestax have finally jumped on the bandwagon, but these may still only be released later on. The info comes from the PLASA convention, so these may only be prototypes. But nevertheless, looks like a kickass product thats got more style than the BCD and Herc combined. It's a USB product that almost looks the same size as the latptop in the picture. Looks like the scratchwheels are nice and big though. Well, see for yourselves:
Vestax VPC-100:
http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/2819/vpc100uq2.jpg
Quoted from skratchworx:
"Vestax by their own admission have steered clear of the purely digital market because they wanted to see where it was going and also because they didn't have the expertise to enter the market successfully. So I was relieved to see that at last they've tackled the tough market and come out with something that should keep the digital DJ happy.
We saw this at PLASA hooked up to Traktor and it worked pretty well. The platters are heavy but pretty responsive. It lacks curve controls but this really isn't designed to be a scratchers deck. But for a club DJ using Traktor, Ableton etc, this makes an ideal console to make it more of a DJs experience than pointing and clicking the mouse to rock a crowd.
The VPC-100 has loops, a comprehensive effects section, cue points, full EQ and pitch control so it's pretty fully featured. BTW that's my picture taken at PLASA hence the high res version."
Source:
http://www.skratchworx.com/news/comments.php4?id=548
Pity its prob not going to make Christmas for us that don't have controllers yet :/
Vestax VPC-100:
http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/2819/vpc100uq2.jpg
Quoted from skratchworx:
"Vestax by their own admission have steered clear of the purely digital market because they wanted to see where it was going and also because they didn't have the expertise to enter the market successfully. So I was relieved to see that at last they've tackled the tough market and come out with something that should keep the digital DJ happy.
We saw this at PLASA hooked up to Traktor and it worked pretty well. The platters are heavy but pretty responsive. It lacks curve controls but this really isn't designed to be a scratchers deck. But for a club DJ using Traktor, Ableton etc, this makes an ideal console to make it more of a DJs experience than pointing and clicking the mouse to rock a crowd.
The VPC-100 has loops, a comprehensive effects section, cue points, full EQ and pitch control so it's pretty fully featured. BTW that's my picture taken at PLASA hence the high res version."
Source:
http://www.skratchworx.com/news/comments.php4?id=548
Pity its prob not going to make Christmas for us that don't have controllers yet :/
Posted Tue 17 Oct 06 @ 9:10 pm
Rune (DJ-In-Norway)
Hmm... seems all the dj hardware companies are going to make controllers for dj software now ;)
Lets just hope its better than B****00.. hehe
Posted Tue 17 Oct 06 @ 9:35 pm
VanStino
It doesn't look very hot tho :P Design could be better (a la iCDX :P ) But it looks pretty usefull and i think it'l be usefull :)
Posted Tue 17 Oct 06 @ 9:49 pm
DJ Cyder
don't expect Atomix to say one way or the other.
Posted Tue 17 Oct 06 @ 10:52 pm
Rune (DJ-In-Norway)
loool ;) once bitten, twice shy ;) hehe
Posted Tue 17 Oct 06 @ 10:53 pm