Talk:DJ controller

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I have removed the various brand names examples of Digital controllers. Sorry, wasn't meant to be advertising, they were just common examples of the controllers from various manufacturers. Deathlibrarian 10:44, 21 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

The mk1 came out in late 2003. I had the mk2 that traded the optical connections for line and phono inputs. Made a great 2 channel digital mixer when connected to a computer. Finally gave it to someone a few years back who had turntables, a laptop, DVS records, but no working mixer, controller, or audio interface anymore. It still worked and the bubble switches were perfectly responsive still on all the buttons.

The first DJ controller in the broadest sense of just playing and manipulating digital audio files was apparently designed in 1992 by DJ Pierre and called the P2J. The first full, traditional beatmatching capability of this application was done by Final Scratch but using turntables and control signals. The KDJ-500, designed by Luis Serrano and built by hand earlier in 2003, was probably the first USB controller-only with touch jogs and long dedicated pitch sliders, all high-quality Alps, btw.

Technically, the first DJ-able player with MIDI I believe was the Numark Axis 8 in 2001, a company which Luis now works for. This player was the baby of Elliot Marx, now of Innofader fame. I was an early adopter of those players, bought a pair from probably the first run, and was the first known customer to use the MIDI on them, which I used for DJing with a sequencer as a third deck and remix station. In fact, I discovered a defect in the Axis 8s, which led to Numark changing something on the analog output section. The 9/11 attacks apparently actually delayed the revised units from getting unloaded from the boat. -Reticuli 2600:2B00:7628:D700:5145:D24A:A260:A12E (talk) 07:06, 10 May 2023 (UTC)Reply