Following up on last week’s cracking performance from DJ Sara using the Reloop Beatpad 2 and djay Pro for Mac, there’s a fresh video from Reloop utilising the splendid skills of DJ Fong Fong. This time it goes a step further and dispenses with physical jog wheels and instead relies on the feature set of the Reloop Mixtour controller twinned with the iPad version of algoriddim’s djay.
I’m not saying it’s every going to replace turntables and a mixer, but this is a pretty sweet performance using this technology. Given the flexibility that an app can offer, there’s a part of me that would take this over a Handy Trax from a portable perspective. Give me a jog wheel and a fader in a single unit that I can run from an iPhone that feels like the Reloop Beatpad 2 and I’m sold.
Well done to Fong Fong for stepping up to use something other than turntables. His skills on vinyl are established anyway, but it’s nice to see talent translated to other technology. From personal experience of making algoriddim’s videos, I can attest as to how quickly apps and mobile devices are improving. Because of latency, scratching used to be a nightmare on them. But I’ve found it to be much better in recent times, and will only improve too.
Aaaaand cue predictably dull comments about real DJs, vinyl, toys etc in 3… 2… 1…
Turntables are much better – as expected.
Amazing performance, shit video…
As Portablism it’s a fail but as mobile dj solution even with scratch factor a total no brainer. Anyways the only who can change the status quo are NI.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOvQCPLkPt4
https://techcrunch.com/2015/11/11/test-2/
“The perceived latency on the iPad Pro is sub-20 milliseconds. That’s a
combination of whatever special array that Apple is using to refresh the
Pencil’s position 240 times per second — 4x as fast as it polls for
finger touch”
ipads pro touchscreen latency is approximately 80ms.
no way this is real.
fong fong is fake like grandmaster jay
You seem to have a misconception about the meaning of the data reported in the techcrunch article you linked. That 4x multiplier refers to the polling rate difference between the Apple Pencil and capacitive sensing; it indicates that the iPad Pro polls for touch at 60Hz, or once every 16.67ms. The touch response of the iPad Pro obviously can’t be any lower than 16.67ms, but it might not be all that much higher (touch response is biaxial, unlike the Pencil response, which is triaxial according to the linked article.)
You’ll notice that all of the really fast movements in the video happen on the fader hand, not the skratch hand; I have no trouble believing that the video represents an actual performance.
Apple pencil is not a finger. It says earlier in the article that it polls for touch every 4 ms, that is 250 hz.
My experience from making many videos for algoriddim is that while the screen lags, the audio is pretty accurate to finger movements. And it keeps getting better with each software and hardware release too.
Comparing Fong Fong to Grandmaster Jay? Plain wrong. Fong Fong is no fake.
I see finally all Djs are starting to get it. ;)
I remember when I was laughed at by Djs for using a iPad …but I always said this is the future.
Hats off to Karim and the Algoriddim team.
More djay tutorials coming soon on my YouTube channel
~Masta Hanksta~
Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leaves to suffering … for those left behind by the tech…
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we all know he can do better with TT. I dont think this toy/tool will have enough Soundquali 4 playing in clubs etc. But def. a nice to have dj-toy/tool.
Jogwheel? Fader? Single Unit? Casio?
this is super wack, not feeling this at all. I don’t think screens will ever do the trick in place of something else that you can actually manipulate.