You cannot be serious?

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Pitch precision is everything I’ll ever need.

No one company has made the “STANDARD” yet.

I doubt that one company will make the standard in this rapidly evolving technology driven industry. Technics became the standard by accident - not a DJ deck but was the best around for a very long time thus became the standard. Pioneer CDJs came out with a killer product before anyone else (not strictly true but you know what I mean) thus they own the CD deck market (helped by giving so many away to big clubs of course). And Serato came out with Scratch Live at a time when the competition was largely floundering in a sea of bugs and bad performance. Although, calling Serato the standard in the DVS market may well change as more products come out.

But for controllers, there are so many around now from little Faderfoxes to full on jog wheel free Ableton controllers. And just when we though the market would settle at VCI/Total Control style all in one jog wheel jobbies, out comes the NS7, Stanton’s SC system, Otus and ITCH just to confuse us even more. And let’s not forget regulars CD and digital media decks becomeing MIDI mappable as well.

So my feeling is that with technology moving so quickly and to a degree shooting off in different directions, there won’t be a standard, but just stand out products in a wide and varied market full of controllers.

I’d much rather have my laptop, a dedicated audio interface, a midi mixer (or an analogue mixer), and a couple of control surfaces (either analogue decks or midi decks). The largest benefits being that I don’t have to stick to one manufacturer (at least, if they’re all midi compatible) and I can pick out the features and functionality that I like for each unit.

I hate seeing built in sound cards on midi control surfaces. I have an audio interface already and I like it. If I want to upgrade it I have my sights set on a different box already. If I like the control surface, why would I want to pay for the onboard sound card I won’t use too?

Just my thoughts ;)

There is one specific question I have for you guys. Besides scratching (if I could show you a way to more effectively pitch bend) is there any reason anyone needs a platter anymore?

Jog and Shuttle, getting around unmarked-up tracks mouse free to find those precise points for dropping a cue. Once the track is marked up with cue points, selecting them by next/prev is good enough, plus allowing 4/8/16 beat jumps forward or backwards from that point is great for hitting those phrases, breakdowns and high points in perfect sync. (Beatjump is a wonderful tool in Traktor to cover up your mistakes!)

All these operations are best done using incr/decr keys as they work on fixed units of time. The Platter allows analog control of position, time or a controller value - something that can mostly be done with a knob. I still want a platter for scanning through tracks at markup time (which can happen during performance if someone hands you a track on a USB stick), but I probably wouldn’t use it live. That’s my style anyway.