Wireless mixing wtf????

[MelodyIlliterate]

http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/16/waco ... ative-djs/

We've been patiently waiting for Wacom to officially announce its upcoming Intuos4 tablet (recently caught by Mr. Blurrycam), so were were totally caught off-guard when the company instead unveiled a sort of foray into the music biz, a digital DJ interface destined for release in time to hit Japanese and European clubs this summer. It's called the nextbeat NXT-1000, a device with a plethora of knobs, buttons, and a small LCD for controlling samples, plus a touch-sensitive pad that seems to act as a turntable and a fingertip drum machine in one. That pad actually pops out, maintaining a wireless connection to the base and enabling fleet-footed DJs to show some moves off-stage while still dropping beats -- assuming their cans are wireless too. No word on cost at this point, but can you really put a price on that sort of musical freedom?

I think im leaning towards the side of retarded due to:

1. why would you run around and try to mix

B. Dont know about you guys but i need 2 hands to mix... therefore cant run around and mix unless i ran to another table :S

iii. Headphones connect to base of player... so either... 1.5 m radius of running around doing stupid shit... or shitty wireless headphones

what do you reckon?

[Mitch]

seems stupid

[Jaz]

Looks retarded, seems like more of a hassle than it's worth

[russell]

retarded

[mattus123]

seems ridiculously unnecessary

also dont trust a touch pad jog wheel

[AlexJ]

while i think this is cool, i agree it is really unecessary and hence, quite stupid.

[Cupe]

i wouldn't mind a wireless setup just so I didn't have any cords

but not sure of point of thing in OP

[SolDios]

if used anywhere public:

1.Buy portable signal jamer for $30

2.Get close to stage

3.????

4.Profit?

[MelodyIlliterate]

lol nice sol

can you reiterate cupe?.. what just the connections between your mixer to your sources?

or...

[Tomy]

seems alright.

cons with wireless platter

- to far away from mixer for volume / eq

- you hardly have to touch the platter these days everything is a 128

- it'll look boring

- the only plus i found was floored and that is being able to scratch out in front of the crowd but again your miles away from the x-fader.

what would be awesome is if they did it with a bank of like 5 hot cues.

[Cupe]

can you reiterate cupe?.. what just the connections between your mixer to your sources?

or...

yea i just mean the cords between everything. It'd be nice not to have to deal with that

it would also eliminate the no. of decks from a mixer etc.

you'd just be buying a mixer with ports instead of inputs and could setup like 10 decks on a mixer and shit

in conclusion, wireless all the things

[russell]

- you hardly have to touch the platter these days everything is a 128

maybe/probably I'm being thick here but what do mean by this?

[Mitch]

he means most songs he plays are 128bpm, so you just hit play for those tracks

[russell]

he means most songs he plays are 128bpm, so you just hit play for those tracks

thats what I thought..... Perhaps Tomy doesn't have much variation in BPM range but I'd imagine most people will, therefore there probably will be a need to touch the platter.

life would be boring if everything was 128bpm after all

[GREMM1S]

Looks shithouse