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Mark, I know better than to try to change your mind, but Ms. Pinky is DOPE. Scott Wardle, the inventor, brought it down one weekend, and I got to play with it for a while. We actually recorded two or three hours' worth of jams of Ms. Pinky vs. armatronix, which may surface at some point. The problem with the CDJ is the interface, which doesn't do a very good job of emulating the feel of real vinyl. If you don't know or care about the difference, I guess the CDJ is more convenient to haul around and a little bit cheaper, but Ms. Pinky is very cool for somebody who wants the feel of real vinyl. I guess it's kind of like the difference between weighted and unweighted keys on a keyboard - it's a tactile thing. Since Ms. Pinky is essentially a controller for Max/MSP/Jitter, it seems like you could build yourself a module to accept live input into a buffer, and then control the buffer output with Ms. Pinky. Scott already has a looper built into it, and a bunch of effects. I'm no expert turntablist, but Scott's vinyl emulator sounds pretty good to me. He could probably add pseudo-random pops and surface noise, if you wanted (if he hasn't already - that guy's a friggin' genius). I'd say that you'd get WAY more value out of Ms. Pinky bundled with Max, MSP, and Jitter, than you would out of a CDJ-1000. The CDJ plays CDs and allows you scratching and limited looping and effects. Ms. Pinky will give you all that and anything else you can dream up - no more excuses. I didn't even realize that you could control video with it, too (via Jitter) - that opens up a whole realm of possibilities. BTW, the Ms. Pinky record is a pretty good scratch record as-is, without all of that computer mumbo-jumbo ;) -Hans At 14:46 30/05/2003, you wrote: >This isn't it. What I'm talking about is something that's scratching >from >a live buffer. This seems like it will do it to a file on your hard >drive. For the money they're asking for the software, plus getting a >turntable, I'd be better off with the CDJ-1000. > >Also, I'm pretty sure there's some sort of DSP or modeling involved with >what the CDJ-1000 does to get it to sound realistic at low speeds, as >opposed to just a jog shuttle device. If you haven't played with one, I >recommend doing it. It's so very cool. > >Mark > >On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 02:09 PM, Rick Williamson wrote: > >>/What I'd really love is for someone to >>/manufacture a device like the Pioneer CDJ-1000 that would let you use >>/live input instead of a CD as the audio source. Seems totally >>/possible, no? The CDJ-1000 takes data from an optical drive and puts >>/it in a RAM buffer. Why not fill that ram buffer from the output of an >>/A/D converter? Anyway, it doesn't exist...yet. >> >>With Ms. Pinky's Maxi-Patch and Max/MSP/Jitter, you can use a turntable >>to scratch anything. Read about Ms. Pinky. Download Ms. Pinky. >> >>Careful what you ask for