New pitch faders for the VCI 100?

[sine143]

so, I've seen the Pro x fade mod for the vci, and I was wondering if anybody had tried to replace the pitch faders, in favor for some longer ones? would be nice to have a bit more control over a greater distance...

[DennisHuiberts]

I think this is going to be very tricky and even useless. The tricky part is that you don't have much space in the VCI for a longer fader (looking at the screws right under the fader). Also, keep in mind that the fader is analog and the electronics (chips etc.) translate this to a bit-value. The "sensitivity" of this analog to digital conversion lies around 9-10 bits. Changing your fader for a more sensitive fader won't increase the "sensitivity" of the AD conversion, so it's as good as useless.
So to solve your problem you a) have to get a whole new controller, b) get an extra controller only for pitching or c) live with the pitchfaders on the VCI.

[sine143]

Yeah, I know what you mean now. You have any idea whether or not traktor will start to support 14 bit midi in the future?

[DennisHuiberts]

It's not Traktor that will be bugging you, but the AD conversion in the hardware, so your midi-controller...

[sine143]

Yes, but even with a controller like the vci 300, I wont be able to make anything of the higher quaility faders. So, regardless of what I do, its still going to be a problem.

[DennisHuiberts]

Traktor supports 14-bit midi since version 1.1, but I know what you mean. A friend of mine has a VCI-300 too and has a lot of problems with mapping the unit in Traktor.

[sine143]

I thought the 14 bit support was only on endless encoders, or something like that... I honestly dont know. Pitching is not too terribly important for me, generally I just like to get my song in the ball park manually, before I lock in sync, cause this gives me the ability to mess the pitch mid song. It was just a thing that was kind of nagging at me (much like my current firmware version 1.2, which is much more annoying than the pitchfaders)