Wow, a little expensive for behringer. Shocking actually.
Re: Gear lust
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 1:34 am
by bassbum
nowaysj wrote:Wow, a little expensive for behringer. Shocking actually.
£600 is only £360
It's the controller I have been dreaming of for the last 2 years. I only hope it has more than 3 banks of fader like most controllers of a similar kind. It's like designer think that having more than 32 tracks in a project is out of this world :/.
Re: Gear lust
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 1:59 am
by Jizz
bassbum wrote:
£600 is only £360
I could watch Lando sitting there for hours lol, he seems... sagely
Re: Gear lust
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 3:50 am
by SunkLo
The cameraman on that Behringer video is utterly retarded.
In other news, I finally got my Schiit stack.
On the order form comments I put "Send me one of the good ones with the dragons and unicorns inside"...
Your soul is worth less than a Behringer? Sure, seems reasonable.
Re: Gear lust
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 5:47 am
by nowaysj
Of all the gear to trade for.
Re: Gear lust
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 10:39 am
by bassbum
wub wrote:Your soul is worth less than a Behringer? Sure, seems reasonable.
Why dose Behringer have such a bad rep?
Re: Gear lust
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 10:43 am
by wub
bassbum wrote:
wub wrote:Your soul is worth less than a Behringer? Sure, seems reasonable.
Why dose Behringer have such a bad rep?
Shoddy build quality, mainly.
Re: Gear lust
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 10:46 am
by nowaysj
Dude. Understatement. It really cannot be stated strongly enough.
Re: Gear lust
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 1:53 pm
by wub
Arturia Announces Beatstep Controller
There's been a lot of excitement for this week's announcements surrounding the annual NAMM conference, and French instrument and software company Arturia has now shared their own, unveiling a new pad controller and step sequencer called Beatstep. With 16 velocity- and pressure-sensitive pads, 16 encoders, 16 MIDI controller and sequencer presets, and a very reasonable price of $129, the Beatstep packs a lot of features into an affordable package. Arturia has also included CV outputs, USB input/output, MIDI output, and iPad compatibility (with the ubiquitous camera kit connection), allowing the controller to be used in conjunction with a range of synthesizers and drum machines, including their recently released Microbrute. The full specifications for Arturia's Beatstep can be found here, while an introductory video is available to watch below.
Bargain at that price.
Re: Gear lust
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 2:46 pm
by darkmatter
wub wrote:
bassbum wrote:
wub wrote:Your soul is worth less than a Behringer? Sure, seems reasonable.
Why dose Behringer have such a bad rep?
Shoddy build quality, mainly.
Depends really. For PA - Behringer Europower amps deliver for the price, as do the the Ultradrive crossovers.
For monitoring, the Truths are great for the money.
For controllers, the BCF2000s get good reviews and the new range looks interesting.
Wouldn't write them off to quickly, being a huge company gives them certain advantages in terms of being able to have a big R&D department and lower prices due to mass production.
Re: Gear lust
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 3:52 pm
by fragments
wub wrote:
Arturia Announces Beatstep Controller
There's been a lot of excitement for this week's announcements surrounding the annual NAMM conference, and French instrument and software company Arturia has now shared their own, unveiling a new pad controller and step sequencer called Beatstep. With 16 velocity- and pressure-sensitive pads, 16 encoders, 16 MIDI controller and sequencer presets, and a very reasonable price of $129, the Beatstep packs a lot of features into an affordable package. Arturia has also included CV outputs, USB input/output, MIDI output, and iPad compatibility (with the ubiquitous camera kit connection), allowing the controller to be used in conjunction with a range of synthesizers and drum machines, including their recently released Microbrute. The full specifications for Arturia's Beatstep can be found here, while an introductory video is available to watch below.
Bargain at that price.
Seriously. Want. For that price I want it just to step sequence my rack filter.
Re: Gear lust
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 3:55 pm
by wub
fragments wrote:Seriously. Want. For that price I want it just to step sequence my rack filter.
The video was pretty jokes, not least because the guy looks like Will Wheaton.
Oh I'll just use it to play my drums...
Oh I'll just use it to sequence my Minibrute
Oh I'll just CONNECT IT TO MY FUCKING MODULAR SYNTH
Jokers
Re: Gear lust
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 4:08 pm
by rockonin
wub wrote:
Arturia Announces Beatstep Controller
There's been a lot of excitement for this week's announcements surrounding the annual NAMM conference, and French instrument and software company Arturia has now shared their own, unveiling a new pad controller and step sequencer called Beatstep. With 16 velocity- and pressure-sensitive pads, 16 encoders, 16 MIDI controller and sequencer presets, and a very reasonable price of $129, the Beatstep packs a lot of features into an affordable package. Arturia has also included CV outputs, USB input/output, MIDI output, and iPad compatibility (with the ubiquitous camera kit connection), allowing the controller to be used in conjunction with a range of synthesizers and drum machines, including their recently released Microbrute. The full specifications for Arturia's Beatstep can be found here, while an introductory video is available to watch below.
Bargain at that price.
This looks a premium version of the Korg Nano Pad
Re: Gear lust
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 4:10 pm
by wub
But with rotaries and a transport section. It looks fucking lush is what is looks, and that price
Re: Gear lust
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 5:23 pm
by fragments
wub wrote:But with rotaries and a transport section. It looks fucking lush is what is looks, and that price
Hell. Sweetwater has them for 99USD. Dont really feel like spending 100 dollars on something I wont have for 2.5 months though...besides...Ill let all the rich as fuck jokers buy the first batch and see what goes wrong with them...lol...Arturia has some MIDI controller lemons that seem cool...like the miniLab...I guess its basically a huge piece of poo that they pretty much dont update or support but continue to sell, lol.
Re: Gear lust
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 6:14 pm
by nowaysj
I preordered the minitbrute in January, bought it while it was still at Namm, if I'm not mistaken, and then waited... I think 6 months, or more? Hahah, cheeky fuckers.
Watch that video, and you will see that thing flexing in the middle as he strikes the pads, like the whole thing flexes. That is potentially a bad thing.
But that thing loooooks dope. I don't even want to get out my whipper snapper routine, but you kids have it SO easy these days. There was a time not long ago when something like this would be four figures, and now it is being sold two figures
Re: Gear lust
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 6:26 pm
by wub
wub wrote:
That's a really nice sound. Always thought of the 707 as a poor mans 909 but from what I've seen it seems to be quite useful in terms of MIDI syncability and a good workhorse to add to an analogue setup.
Can't stop watching this video...got that proper itch under my skin...
Re: Gear lust
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 6:53 pm
by fragments
nowaysj wrote:
But that thing loooooks dope. I don't even want to get out my whipper snapper routine, but you kids have it SO easy these days. There was a time not long ago when something like this would be four figures, and now it is being sold two figures
Fully recognize this man.
I think weve learned that computers are great, but for inspiration hardware still has it beat. I really feel like people who bitch about being unispired or not feeling creative and all that crywank really out do something besides enter values and click things with a mouse.
Shit. You dont even have to know a damn thing about music theory to play the Beatstep correctly! Just set it to one of the scale modes and get to knob twisting!
Re: Gear lust
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 7:16 pm
by nowaysj
Really is true. Gotta find a way of working that is fun, AND produces usable results. I have way more fun in hardware/controller, but then bring that ultimately into the box, where I can get usable results.
