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Man, lots of excitement ovet a CD player! I took my refund, bought some new guitar strings and had a bender in Reno with a hot tamale. ------------------------------ On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 10:08 AM PST Matt Davignon wrote: >I'm curious - do turntable controllers consider the needle? I imagine >a good turntable controller must have some sort of touch screen for >the left hand, where you can "drop the needle" in different parts of a >visual representation of the sound file. > >When I was a turntablist, I often thought of producing a record for >other turntablists. (There's a name for those, I just can't think of >it now.) Mine would've had one side be just locked grooves of >chromatic and diatonic scales, so that one could play the turntable as >a melodic instrument by dragging the needle across the grooves. Side 2 >would've been split between sounds that scratch well (such as a person >going "sssssss", "fffffffff" and "Shhhhhhh") and singular drum sounds >that could be combined/looped to make rhythms. > >...but I didn't have the idea until I was already migrating to drum >machine, and I didn't know many turntablists at the time. > > > >-- >Matt Davignon >mattdavignon@gmail.com >www.ribosomemusic.com >Podcast! http://ribosomematt.podomatic.com >http://www.youtube.com/user/ribosomematt > > >On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Rainer Straschill ><moinsound@googlemail.com> wrote: >> Rick Walker schrieb: >> >> I remember seeing Portisehead years ago where he >> had gone in and tracked individual tracks (like solo harmonica), >> pressed to vinyl and the scratched and pitch shifted it in to >> live tracks in a really amazing way. >> >> I remembered thinking >> 1) what a totally cool concept: create your own 'scratcheables' >> and >> 2) WOW!! you have to have a lot of money to do this. >> >> The solution that might have been used here is Final Scratch or a >> competitor, where you use special timecode records, then send that >> timecode >> audio to a specific software, which you then use to playback any audio >> file >> according to how you move your vinyl. And while it's not as inexpensive >> as >> 200 bucks (and you still need your turntable, which you already have as >> a >> scratcher usually), it's not in the WOW!!/break your bank price range. >> >> -- >> http://moinlabs.de >> Follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/moinlabs >> >