KAM KHD410 Desktop USB controller video 1

0:30 Just had a little bit of a mess around with this guy

Right, just had a little bit of a mess around with this guy. It's from a company called Cam. It's known as the KHD410. It's a desktop USB controller. Now, first and foremost, you do not play CDs in this guy. You've just got a thumb drive port there, USB port, beg your pardon. You stick your thumb drive in and away you go. Now, one major factor about units like this is that there's no moving parts. In other words, if you put a CD in a player... Fair enough, theoretically the company should have made, you know, the quality of the motor and etc., all the gubbins that jiggles about in their kind of stuff thingy, they should have made them as good a quality as they can, enabling the unit to last a long time. But of course, you know, even the best items in the world, eventually certain things, that's a dog running about, place chasing the ball, eventually certain things will start to fall apart and fall all over the place. Right, moving swiftly on, this unit has got no moving parts.

Well, when I say no moving parts, nothing that will be moving inside it. The only things that do move is, of course, the jog wheel here and the pitch control. Now, video number one on this guy is just giving you a general sort of idea. It has got a scratch function. We've got flanger, filter and echo. We can set memory points, cue points, I beg your pardon, on this as well. We can do looping. He's got a whole house to play with. Animals, they're crazy, he's got a whole house to play with and they're around my ankles 24-7. Right, okay, so we've got pitch on and off logically and we can have plus or minus 8, plus or minus 16 and master tempo as well. Right, so let's play the track. By the way, the track is Karma, a track entitled I Need You and it's as uplifting as strapping 10,000 balloons to your head and making you go higher. Right, here we go.

2:29 It's on scratch at the moment

Right, what I'll do, I'll just put this down a little bit, excuse the jumpy about bits, and we'll have a closer look. There we go. It's on scratch at the moment. It's not perfect, but it's very good. Search, reverse, very precise. At the moment, master tempo's on. Starting to get a slight kind of delay there. Quite often with the likes of master tempo, the more you slow it down, it's almost like you hear an echo, as though you've got the same... Alright, we can loop on this guy as well. I suppose in a sense it's a very basic video, video number one. And like I said earlier, the camera's moving all over the place, like I said earlier, no moving parts. So, you know, is this the sort of future whereby you don't really want to play CDs? I personally do like to play CDs, but let's say for example, you're in the middle of Ooby Dab Dab Catch Madoodoo and you haven't got a local CD player, CD player, sorry, you haven't got a local shop.

Let's say down the road and all you've got is like, I don't know, like sea and water and maybe trees all the way around you. You can download stuff and guess what? You can still have the hardware and have a mess and jig around, alright? So video number one on this from Cam, it's the KHD410, it's known as the desktop USB controller and I'll put a lickable clink in the description. Practice and enjoy. Thank you for putting that with me.

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