If This is The Type of Performance that Evolution Brought us

stale bread · Post by **stale bread** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 3:04 am

then I would rather remain a caveman.

I was checkin out this site for the controllers i've always liked the site and this controller is pretty cool, but i couldn't help get sidetracked by the performance.

I would never pay to see this crap, i don't care what the music sounds like.
I really wonder sometimes if we are going forwards or backwards

i'm talking about the VMX Studio video clip midway down the page

http://createdigitalmusic.com/page/2/

jb61264 · Post by **jb61264** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 4:53 am

yeah...not exactly a mind-blowing demonstration video of a new products capability eh?

rbmonosylabik · Post by **rbmonosylabik** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 5:00 am

that was just wrong

stale bread · Post by **stale bread** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 6:43 am

to me it looked more like an episode of 'when hand models attack'.

hambone1 · Post by **hambone1** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 6:57 am

Elimination of the use of electricity would probably be one of the best things that could happen to music...

ohiowa · Post by **ohiowa** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 7:06 am

it sort of reminds me of when i first got a roland mc303 and i was all impressed with the sounds and whatnot all crammed into a little box for a little money (i didn't even own a computer at this point) and then i went through all the preset loops didn't hear one that i even remotely thought was cool or unfunny. it seems that most manufacturers of electronic music making tools think we all make really phaser heavy boring techno.

ultimately i guess it's to show off it's "potential" but i couldn't sit through that video long enough to see if "hand-man" was going to use the controller for anything i was interested in. just goes to show you, you can program tastefully but you can't program taste...or is that what the ableton+cycling74 thing is all about?

jb61264 · Post by **jb61264** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 7:36 am

ohiowa wrote:it sort of reminds me of when i first got a roland mc303

Looking up at my MC-303 now and thinking...I kinda like the sounds in that little box

funkdefino · Post by **funkdefino** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 7:52 am

But VMX DJ looks like it might be pretty cool. Not a fan of the layout though.

nobbystylus · Post by **nobbystylus** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 1:20 pm

that is the weirdest looking thing... why isn't nothing aligned? faders and buttons, nobs and switches...

funkdefino wrote:But VMX DJ looks like it might be pretty cool. Not a fan of the layout though.

itook4lefts · Post by **itook4lefts** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 2:15 pm

i actually laughed out loud when that synth line came in about half way through.

i don't think a guy who makes controllers should necessarily be making great music with them (leo fender couldn7t play the guitar), but i do think they should have got someone to use the damn thing properly before they put a vid on the web... (i hope to christ that guy was the maker).

i thought it was quite a nice controller, though i don't think it's 60 euros better than 2 faderfoxes, is it?

edit: it's only 379 euros. big one is 500. that makes it cheaper than a bitstream. hmmm. it only has 6 channels, but it has more, and better positioned, buttons. hmmm... after all the naysaying, maybe it's a contender.

joeman · Post by **joeman** » Thu May 03, 2007 8:22 am

The Bitstream is 379 euros including shipping, same price than the small model but much more features for the bitstream.