Reloop TerminalMix8 Short over view and demo by Ellaskins

0:01 First of all, a little bit about ReLoop

Alright guys, you've got in front of you the Terminal Mix 8 from a company called ReLoop. Just zoom in there a little bit. Right, so first of all, a little bit about ReLoop. The products they make are good quality, they're well constructed, they're well built, they're not flimsy. You won't expect to have knobs falling off or buttons that break, faders that start to crackle. What they tend to do is their design, the build quality is very good. So that's the first thing I'll say about Reloop. Now I have had quite a few items from them in the past. I've had CD players and all I can say is that they work. They do what they're meant to do. buttons and dials and sometimes the dials maybe just feel a little bit tacky. Maybe they just feel a little bit too plasticky. Well, the thing is with the Terminal Mix 8 is it doesn't feel tacky. It doesn't look tacky. And when you pick it up, it's got a bit of weight to it. You know, I can imagine a person bashing that around a little bit and it's just sort of going to sit there and go, well, is that all you've got?

2:48 A rubber, very rubbery

So at the moment what I've got, I've got a couple of tunes here. I'm using Serato DJ and if we have a listen, press play for a start. This one here is Cosmic Gate Firewire and then we've got Joshua Inc. High States of Consciousness. So you'll see here I've got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 touchpads and I'm just going to use these four Hot cues for the moment. So, listen. First thing very apparent is that the pads themselves, if I just put the volume down, the pads themselves, even though they're rubber, they're very rubbery, I like them, they're rubbery, they feel robust, they feel solid and you'd normally have that kind of feel if you were hitting something that was hard plastic or metal. A rubber, very rubbery. They do feel solid and also when you touch the pad if you've formed a hot cue you get that sound on the one there's no delay whatsoever so here we go have a listen I'm going to bring the volume down a little bit so you can hear my tapping

5:15 It's great for in the mix

And you'll also, as soon as you hear my tapping, you'll hear the track or that hot cue comes in at exactly the same time. There's not even a millisecond of delay. But of course, that could depend on the processor and the laptop you're using. Always make sure that you're offline and you haven't got Skype or all that crap in the background. If you're going to have a PC with a PC program on, make sure that's all it does. You don't start... Key range here, so we can change the range of the pitch if we want to. Jog wheels here, platters, good response there, pretty much in sort of scratch mode, press there and now we're in jog mode. You notice there earlier on we had the filter and a lot of people now, a lot of companies are realising yeah you know you've got to have filter and of course what they've done is you've got a designated filter above each channel now which helps.

It's great for in the mix. If you don't want to, here's a tip for you, if you don't want to do mad effects, the easiest kind of effect you can use in the mix is just the filter. Very simple. For example, it's just a very simple mix using the filter. A short video really on this. What I'm going to do is take this out on the road, give it a bit of a demo, use it for more demonstrations. But also for tutorials, because a lot of people are saying, well you know, you're always on the CDJs, which is fair enough. Let's get into a lot more on the controller side. So if you've got any questions, by all means post the questions in comments underneath here. I'll do my best to look at them and answer them, and I'll finish off with practice and enjoy. Don't forget this is the Terminal 8 from ReLoop. I'll also put in the description a hyperlink to the ReLoop website. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

This transcript was produced automatically from the audio of the video and may contain mistakes.