You’d be forgiving for thinking that NI’s first attempt at a controller for their über-popular DJing software would be along the lines of Akai’s APC40 – replicating the software’s GUI and strongest features in hardware, making the visual feedback recognisable and the layout logical. But you’d be far off the mark – NI have, for better or for worse, squarely aimed their product at one sector of their market – timecode vinyl and CD users. While this makes sense as a business choice – NI need to associate themselves with currently installed professional club systems and equipment if they are to truly become a standard – it is odd to completely remove the ability, or at least make it very difficult, to use the X1 away from these scenarios. That being said, NI have admitted it’s not the first controller we’ll see from them, so let’s assess the X1 in the context it was designed for.

 

Autor   Declan McGlynn   Ausgabe   Future Music 01/2010   Anzahl Seiten   1