Comments on: Faderfox Controllers for Live, DJing: US Distribution, Upcoming Models

By: tricil

tricil — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 00:01:03 +0000

i want an LV2… bundled with live 6 now

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:55:05 +0000

Dolphin Music can supply these units form stock. We have been working Mathias for over a year now and our customers really love his products!

By: roland

roland — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:38:03 +0000

The price of these things in the US is actually mind-blowing. I paid something in the region of 150 ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚Â¬ – big difference! ;-)

By: gbc02

gbc02 — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:02:29 +0000

Now, the question is, who does the Canadian distribution, Rephlex Audio? JK James.

Actually I have been interested in the FaderFoxes for some time, I just want to know if I can get them in Canada or I should wait something similar from Reflex Audio since I like to buy local.

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 13:36:42 +0000

For now, US distribution = Robotspeak. I know the Ableton guys like the Faderfoxes and you can even buy a bundle now; I don’t know if there’s any real collaboration beyond that.

I’m a big fan of OSC, but for use with Live it’ll require the efforts of both Ableton and a hardware maker. I think they also have to see a killer app to convince them its worthwhile. Something like the Faderfox has pretty fixed assignments and works just fine with MIDI. What could be the killer app? Not sure yet; even the Lemur is used with Live via MIDI.

The units I just got shipped are the second-generation units. The “third generation” will include the new models Mathias talks about above, one of which will supplant the current LV2 (the others will just supplement existing models, as I understand it).

Hope this is helpful.

By: cobalt

cobalt — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 13:31:36 +0000

Peter, it would be interesting to hear more about Faderfox itself, plans for US distribution, potential market for Live- and Traktor-specific hardware, collaboration between Faderfox and Ableton around the new product releases, etc. It seems that Faderfox is discontinuing the first generation, so I’d vote for waiting for the new models before reviewing them.

As for MIDI or USB, I’d rather skip USB and head straight for OSC. That would facilitate all kinds of things, including much easier ways of creating interaction between musicians on a very basic control and audio processing level.

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 04:06:11 +0000

Well, for power you can run for a long, long time off batteries, so it’s mainly the MIDI connection. There are ways of reducing cables even with the MIDI connection.

I’m getting the DJ2 + LX2, so stay tuned to see how that works out.

By: marc

marc — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 01:18:58 +0000

I’d love it if they made usb faderfoxes… ones that were bus powered + transmitted MIDI.
i am on a mission to eliminate cord clutter!

By: maz

maz — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:12:05 +0000

I ordered the DJ2 from robot speak the moment I got my new job. Lucky for me they’re just a hop skip and a jump away from me. (I was living in the Tenderloin, they’re located in lower haight).

I absolutely love it and plan on picking up a LV2 when I have the extra cash, but think operator and simpler would be a better purchase at the moment.

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Wed, 16 Aug 2006 16:51:32 +0000

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