Ableton Forum

the_antagonist wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4uyN5rQbbU

ChiDJ wrote:

Tone Deft wrote:honestly, nope, educate me?

I have a 1200 and a TTX. the TTX spins up a bit faster, has a reverse button, you can control the speed up and down rates, it has line level out, you can change bpm without pitch shifting, lots of bells and whistles.

from what I've read is that if you get used to a TTX and show up to a place with 1200s you lose the skill to do that stuff by hand.

embarrass me.

The beauty of the 1200 is in it's simplicity it does what it does and it's built like a tank. Kinda like those Steel Tonka Toys I use to have as a kid. Built to last. Built to be consistent. It just does what it does and never lets you down. Kinda like a Bro. I guess it's nostalgia.

jamos wrote:

SubFunk wrote:

garyboozy wrote:http://www.inthemix.com.au/news/intl/45 ... cs_is_dead

finally!, what took em' so long to let the dinosaur die? can't wait for the day they disappear in clubs entirely.

10 out of 10 for being a total troll.

Clarification came from Panasonic UK to squash rumours. And It's not what you might think. So here goes - the 1200MK5 and 1210MK5 WILL be discontinued leaving the 1210MK5G as the top of the range and most definitely NOT discontinued. It never was a limited edition, just a flagship special edition model. And the 1200 and 1210 MK2 will continue as normal. So now there's some distance between the MK2 and MK5G models instead having a middle MK5 deck to confuse matters. So it's vanilla Technics or the more expensive piano black extra pitched blue light luxury model left in the range.

SubFunk wrote:what makes a technics technically really special... is the fact that they had for i think about over 3 decades a patent that run out (i am not 100% sure but i think it was about 5-6years ago?), the patent was that the actual motor is a special construction which made the platter a part of it... compared to a motor with a spindle and a platter attached to the spindle, like vestax PDX series turntables, e.g.... that has lead to a totally different physical behaviour when you pitch bend with your fingers along the platter, making a technics the most unique and unmatched turntable, no pdx or ttx or whatever... manages to get close to that physical behaviour while mixing and manually correcting the pitch bend...
yet they have a higher pitch range, reverse, etc. extras that don't make up for the loss of the actual physical platter behaviour.

even after the patent run out, companies like stanton, e.g. started to use the same motor / platter all in one construction... but again all companies made all the same mistake... they forgot the second speciality about a technics: the pure and utter mega heavy platter weighting a ton...
again leading to an utter unique and needed behaviour, not matched.

funky shit wrote:

Clarification came from Panasonic UK to squash rumours. And It's not what you might think. So here goes - the 1200MK5 and 1210MK5 WILL be discontinued leaving the 1210MK5G as the top of the range and most definitely NOT discontinued. It never was a limited edition, just a flagship special edition model. And the 1200 and 1210 MK2 will continue as normal. So now there's some distance between the MK2 and MK5G models instead having a middle MK5 deck to confuse matters. So it's vanilla Technics or the more expensive piano black extra pitched blue light luxury model left in the range.

I wouldn’t say that analog is dead but there’s a lot of digital products on the market that can do the same thing.