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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/

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

that was just wrong

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

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

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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