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March 18, 2004
Oh, YES!
The Evolution X-Session
Someone *finally* made a commercially available MIDI controller with a cross fader. I’m glad I didn’t make one of these a few months ago… Now the big choice… This, or a small key-based controller with knobs?
oooooh! buttons! buttons and knobs!
i love buttons ;)
The big thing? The cross fader. :) There is *finally* a way to use Traktor or Live and cross-fade between tracks without using a vertical fader (or two) or a knob instead of a real, horizontally mounted crossfader. I was just going to get a key-based controller, and then this comes along! I just don’t know how often I’d use it… Although it’d absolutely rule to try spinning a set at a party with it or whatnot.
And combined with Live? < swoon >
It’s pretty sweet. Is it expensive?
It’s looking like there is someone on eBay who will sell them for $119, Buy-It-Now, free shipping, and (obviously) no tax. Mac and PC compatable, of course, which is exactly what I need.
You are smart with things like this…do you know if there is any way to convert mp3’s into midi, or is it hopeless?
Hopeless… because mp3 is an audio file (compressed) where midi is essentially a trigger. Without getting too deeply in to it, midi is just a protocol that allows devices to trigger sounds. Midi files themselves have no sound in them (they’re simply data). They trigger a device (such as a synthesizer) to make sounds.
That makes sense, thank you =) I will just have to find more midi files for my cell phone…I was hoping to just be able to use files that I already have =)