Technical Details:
- 5 Touch sensitive sliders (3 switchable via presets)
- 1 Touch sensitive continuous rotary control (switchable via preset)
- 4 Backlit (red, blue) buttons
- 10 Back lit (red, blue, purple) touch sensitive buttons
- 9 Backlit touch sensitive buttons (switchable via preset)
- USB 1.1 and 2.0 class compliant MIDI controller
- USB bus-powered*
- System Requirements:
- Mac: Power PC G5 or multicore Intel® processor Mac OSX (v10.4 or later)
- Windows: PC running Windows XP or Vista
- Dimensions (H x W x D): 8.52 in x 4.72 in x 1.38 in 216.5 mm x 120 mm x 35.25 mm
- Shipping Weight: 2.64 lbs (1.2 Kg)
- *USB hub / port must meet USB power specification
- Package includes: DaScratch® Unit, USB cable, and Quickstart guide
MSRP: $299
Slider, Circle, and Button Modes
DaScratch’s center section operates mainly in 3 different modes – Slider, Circle, and Button mode. These 3 different control layouts can be evoked by any of the mode buttons depending on how the DaRouter preset is programmed.
- Slider Mode – Slider mode gives the user 3 variable controls (like faders) that can be used by sliding your finger up and down the areas next to the 3 LED meter bars. This mode can be used for controlling many parameters at once, like an EQ. A slider may be changed by dragging a finger across the surface, or you can place your finger in an absolute position on the slider and its position will jump immediately to that point. Two fingers may be used to trigger from one position to the next. For instance, holding one finger on the bottom of the slider and tapping the top with a second finger will make the slider generate the higher value for as long as that finger remains on the surface. Once the second (upper) finger is removed, the slider will generate the value indicated by the first finger position.
- Circle Mode – In Circle mode, there is one slider at the center of the circle, and circular slider going around the perimeter of the touch surface. Just like in Slider mode, finger jumps are possible can be performed to quickly change the parameter in real time. This is the mode most likely to be used to emulate the platter of a deck. Circle mode is also the default mode of DaScratch. That is to say that if you plug DaScratch into your computer without using the DaRouter software, it will operate in Circle mode. But keep in mind that without DaRouter, the Mode Selector buttons (VINYL, LOOP, etc) will only send note data and will not change the operation of DaScratch.
- Button Mode – In Button mode, the zones highlighted in the diagram will act as triggers to control buttons in the target application. For example, these functions could be assigned to alter loop lengths, jump to cue points, or start clips playing. Multiple buttons may be pressed at the same time in Button mode. Also, you will find some presets use a modified version of Button mode that makes the trigger areas bigger by combining 2 or more button zones.
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IMO it looks pretty boring and cheap, nothing special. I may be a fun toy for tricks but I can’t imagine myself using that thing.
IMO you are an idiot! This looks like such a technooigical advance controller that looks expensive BUT looking at the price point and custom features -its already a killer product. You can’t imagine yourself using it cause you probably know shit!
Yes, you are right. I’m an idiot and don’t know shit.
OK guys – get a room someplace.
If I see “a dj” mixing with one of those at a club, bar etc… I am going to go up and punch him in the mouth
Seems like the ones who have a purist stick up their rears are tards who never actually make any of the music. Besides if you’re a real purist, then you use only vinyl, and you dont use cd decks, which btw, are $1500 a pop for good Pioneers. Cds are dying, but we’re not allowed to use our pricey laptops with controllers, despite the fact that even dinosaurs like Van Dyk use them. Electronic music isn’t pure music to start with, so what is with this asinine hostility to progress in a progressive scene. Maybe daScratch is cheap, maybe it wont last, but its ridiculously cheap. Deadmaus uses a touchscreen controller, the expensive kind, so go punch him in the mouth, you foolio.
VJS use touchscreen controllers all the time. You gonna get on them for not dragging pro video decks around. Purists are losers who are prob not doing much.
Purists are tards who never actually make any of the music. Besides if you’re a real purist, then you use only vinyl, and you dont use cd decks, which are $1500 a pop for good Pioneers. Cds are dying, but we’re not allowed to use our pricey laptops with controllers, despite the fact that even dinosaurs like Van Dyk use them. Electronic music isn’t pure music to start with, so what is with this asinine hostility to progress in a progressive scene. Maybe daScratch is cheap, maybe it wont last, but its only $250. Deadmaus uses a touchscreen controller, the expensive kind, so go punch him in the mouth, you foolio.
VJS use touchscreen controllers all the time. You gonna get on them for not dragging pro video decks around. Purists are losers who are prob not doing much.
I will personally make a fool out of anybody wants wants to test the DaSCratchs against any of their gear. A reall Dj can perfrom with any and everything. Losers who can’t mix two copies of the same record need to be honest with themselves aboiut the loserness.