Comments on: Otus is ready

By: Ebony Doro

Ebony Doro — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 06:12:33 +0000

abseils…

Just found out that this old link I was looking for is now beyond anyone’s reach. It was part of a publication of the STC Online SIG, whose one-time manager, Ann Wiley, has just told me,…

By: Darudevil

Darudevil — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:12:45 +0000

I’m using Otus with Traktor Pro on a Macbook Pro. Works like a charm out of the box with the driver and template (which you can tweak to your liking), sounds great and overall the combination to me feels very much like a CDJ1000 with benefits, or there's not much of a learning curve. The thing is light, but sturdy, buttons and knobs feel good, the touch buttons and ribbons take some getting used to, but the play, cue and several other buttons are normal feedback-giving tactile buttons. I’m looking forward to getting the proper carrying case, it’s a little awkward carrying it with me in the box it came in… ;)

The only criticism I have right now is the accuracy of the pitch fader (even with the highest resolution) with Traktor, but I think it's more a midi protocol feature than hardware flaw. If you want to pitch say 135.00bpm track to 136.00 to play a track back to back with a 136.00 pitched CDJ track, you can't manually pitch it to 136.00, but to 135.88 or 136.06. By putting a 136.00 track to one Traktor deck and syncing the 135.00bpm one to it you can get it 136.00, but that's a laborous work-around. Only using Otus to play the above is not a problem at all, you can just sync the next track to the current bpm whether it's even ,00 or not.

Ville/Darude

By: DJ Kenton

DJ Kenton — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:31:54 +0000

If you find a US retailer let us know. I've been waiting since June for this thing but $912 seems extremely steep.

By: RCUS

RCUS — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:55:16 +0000

Good News is the store is open. Bad news is, at the current US exchange rate, it's looking like $912 shipped. There are no US distributors. I tried to connect EKS to S

Sweetwater, but no go as of yet.

By: RCUS

RCUS — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:50:38 +0000

[quote comment=""]Would have loved the Raw to be released at the same time too, but now… I have a little bit more time to safe me up some money. :D

And 'eh… EKS Utus? ;)[/quote]

By: tekki

tekki — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:27:43 +0000

Would have loved the Raw to be released at the same time too, but now… I have a little bit more time to safe me up some money. :D

And 'eh… EKS Utus? ;)

By: DJ ToS

DJ ToS — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:20:23 +0000

Finally, nice to see them boys pusing the product out.

I can't imagine how much more expensive it would be with a spinning platter (but it would be wery nice to have one). About that tactile feedback, YES!, nothing can feel better than the CLICK feel like on the CDJ1000 cue/play button.

By: RCUS

RCUS — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:51:00 +0000

Price? U.S. distributors? At least the exchange rate isn’t as crazy as when we first heard about this thing! A spinning platter would be nice though….