Emulator, Multitouch Traktor Controller

**daveripley** · 08-06-2010, 10:09 AM

http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/t...ing-today-vid/

**eastcoastams** · 08-06-2010, 10:12 AM

Dude this is in like 5 other threads all ready

**komrad** · 08-06-2010, 02:27 PM

Check out this giant transparent touch screen running Traktor Emulator. I wonder how long for this thing to become a reality? I know a lot of you will say that it doesn't have the tactile feel of real knobs and shifters, but I think this could honestly be seen in lots of clubs sometime in the future. It would eventually be much more cost effective, not to mention it shows everyone how you're mixing...

http://www.thedigitalpanda.com/2010/...ture-of-djing/

**Fracas** · 08-06-2010, 02:30 PM

This is like the 5th thread this week on this unit.

**Fracas** · 08-06-2010, 02:31 PM

http://www.djtechtools.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16690

**komrad** · 08-06-2010, 02:32 PM

i tried searching for previous posts... oh well

**First Touch** · 08-06-2010, 03:28 PM

I can guarantee that this won't catch on. It's just a gimmick. Way too expensive plus it doesn't give the DJ an advantage. I can't imagine anyone scratching with it or even beatmatching.

That being said it does look pretty badass but I just don't see it as a real DJ tool.

ctrld · 08-06-2010, 04:06 PM

way too expensive and not portable at all - ergo: unlikely to spread.

plus, trying to emulate knobs and faders on a touch screen is a joke. I'm working on touch UIs at my university and that's the first thing our dev team immediately dismissed. if you're going to make a touch screen, implement features that make sense (such as x/y pads).

similar to the reactable, it definitely looks cool but has little to no way of becoming a widespread system unless it gets dirt cheap and portable. I think everybody here knows that you can outperform it many times over with something as simple as a midifighter.

what I definitely see coming on a large scale are ipad apps.