siddhu

Hey SmashTV, I posted an extract from one of your posts and a link to this thread on the Ableton board. Thanks for the great work you and Thorsten are doing.

Sorry, my mistake...Traktor will now synch to Midi clock, and still does not support midi out. I guess I read the info on Traktor 2.5 to fast and understood what I wanted to understand :) Siddhu

Hi, Everything going on here is fascinating, and totally blows away 99% of all the commercially available MIDI controllers. Hats off to all of you who have built your controllers!! The commercial controllers out there all seem to be pretty much designed for using "conventional" sequencers and audio editors, and I want something that is more of a hybrid between an instrument and a DJ mixer. I am planning on building a controller to use with Traktor and eventually, another one for Ableton's Live. So here are my questions. Any and all advice and answers will be highly appreciated. 1) Since Traktor now has midi out, I am thinking of using motorfaders. Are they tough enough to handle rough DJ use? 2) Is there a real difference between the quality and feel of Alps motorfaders and the Penny and Gilles? 3) From reading several posts in the forum, I am under the impression that both the Alps and the P+G motorfaders are touch sensitive. Am I correct in my assumption? 4) The idea of endlessly rotating encoders is easy enough to understand, but how well does soft takeover or snap work with rotary potentiometers that have a 300 degree turn?

Hi, Does anybody have a part number for non-incremental Alps encoders? I have looked extensively online and don't seem to be able to find any. All help much appreciated. ;) Siddhu