Comments on: New DJ Serato Rane 68 Mixer Announced http://kennygrant.ca/2010/01/dj-serato-rane-68-mixer/ House Music Tue, 03 Aug 2010 21:19:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: qudus olusoga http://kennygrant.ca/2010/01/dj-serato-rane-68-mixer/comment-page-1/#comment-11272 qudus olusoga Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:37:26 +0000 http://kennygrant.ca/?p=659#comment-11272 tell me about the mixer tell more about your price. i love to be a dj rock in world thank you tell me about the mixer tell more about your price. i love to be a dj rock in world thank you

]]> By: susan 28 http://kennygrant.ca/2010/01/dj-serato-rane-68-mixer/comment-page-1/#comment-10191 susan 28 Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:10:32 +0000 http://kennygrant.ca/?p=659#comment-10191 i just wish they'd abandoned the "traditional" channel-sharing between deck controllers on multi-channel controller-mixers such as the Xone:DX where you have access to all decks, but only two at a time without fussing with shift or other switching hassles which keep mixers like the 68 and DX from simulating a true, classic 3-deck mixing environment, with 3 decks in play and 3 decks accessible with live control at all times. the fact that in SL (as opposed to Itch) the pitch control is one the physical decks makes the controller-sharing thing a little less problematic than in "pure digital" environments like the NS7/V7 and DX situation, but it still would've been SO cool to see a mighty Sixty Eight with true real-time 4-chan control, not just over volume, but all 4 virtual decks as well, and i think it would've been well worth the extra width for them to have included an extra row of control buttons on each side - same as currently, only 2 rows of control/effects buttons on each side instead of one. OH and one more thing which keeps jumping out and irking: WHY is the xfader shifted to the RIGHT? that That just doesn't make sense.. the idea is to locate the xfader midway between the left edges of the two inner deck surfaces, for equidistance of reach and therefore more consistence of reach and both better balance and quicker transitions (less body movement). traditionally, especially in the age of wide club mixers, xfaders were always shifted to the left for this reason, and when mixers got skinny we stopped sweating it and started putting faders in the middle, which was still a compromise, geometrically and ergonomically. but to have it on the right just makes it super-close to the right deck and a long reach from the left.. please explain this Rane! i just wish they’d abandoned the “traditional” channel-sharing between deck controllers on multi-channel controller-mixers such as the Xone:DX where you have access to all decks, but only two at a time without fussing with shift or other switching hassles which keep mixers like the 68 and DX from simulating a true, classic 3-deck mixing environment, with 3 decks in play and 3 decks accessible with live control at all times. the fact that in SL (as opposed to Itch) the pitch control is one the physical decks makes the controller-sharing thing a little less problematic than in “pure digital” environments like the NS7/V7 and DX situation, but it still would’ve been SO cool to see a mighty Sixty Eight with true real-time 4-chan control, not just over volume, but all 4 virtual decks as well, and i think it would’ve been well worth the extra width for them to have included an extra row of control buttons on each side – same as currently, only 2 rows of control/effects buttons on each side instead of one.

OH and one more thing which keeps jumping out and irking:

WHY is the xfader shifted to the RIGHT? that That just doesn’t make sense.. the idea is to locate the xfader midway between the left edges of the two inner deck surfaces, for equidistance of reach and therefore more consistence of reach and both better balance and quicker transitions (less body movement).

traditionally, especially in the age of wide club mixers, xfaders were always shifted to the left for this reason, and when mixers got skinny we stopped sweating it and started putting faders in the middle, which was still a compromise, geometrically and ergonomically. but to have it on the right just makes it super-close to the right deck and a long reach from the left.. please explain this Rane!

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