Touch Innovations KS32 Introduction BY MR Karl Detken

0:00 Good evening, morning and afternoon wherever you are

Alright ladies and gentlemen, good evening, morning and afternoon wherever you are. Now first of all, you have in front of you a rather nice piece of kit from Touch Innovations. Also to my right, you'll see him very shortly, a gentleman I know by the name, come on in here, by the name of Mr Karl Detkin. Now this gentleman here, first of all let me tell you a little story about this guy. Do you ever remember the original Pioneer CDJ? If you're not old enough, then Google Pioneer CDJ. This guy pretty much designed and built it or played a big part in it. So he played a major part in Pioneer in the construction of what we know as Pioneer DJ today. Also, he was pretty much the brains behind V-Moder, getting V-Moder headphones out to the main DJs out there. So I take my hat off to this guy because pretty much every single top DJ now uses V-Moder. They do pretty much, don't they? I would say a lot, do. And now also, he is now part and parcel of Touch Innovations. So I'll hand you over to Mr Karl Detkin and tell us a bit about you and Touch Innovations and how you got started, etc.

Thank you, Jonathan. And for the sake of full disclaimer, I do want to give full credit to the true brains of Pioneer. I was with Pioneer for almost 20 years from the very beginning, started the division with two other Japanese guys. But really it was three of us that were... Coming up with ideas, and there were a hundred smarter engineers than us, geniuses, that would figure out how to take these ideas and these concepts and bring them to fruition. So I can't take the credit for this. It was really... So was that the right thing for me to say earlier on? Absolutely okay to... Okay, there you go. Most of the world knows me as the face of Pioneer for that length of time because I was out there kind of pitching and being the ambassador, so it's a common misconception. But I did love my time there and I'm loving my time here now. And basically, I've always been attracted to companies that were...

2:18 Our team of engineers and our team of product developers, they're DJs

Technologically based and this company, just as Pioneer was and just as many of the companies out there, they have a lot invested into research and development and the designing of products. The success behind Pioneer was having guys like me that actually were users of the product, DJs, and the same thing with this. Our team of engineers and our team of product developers, they're DJs. They're guys that are actually using the product. The DJ Tutor is available for purchase at Ellaskins.com. The DJ Tutor is not just a performance tool, it can be a production tool because it's a touch surface that will work with your pro tools, with your show express lighting, with your VirtualDJ Traktor, anything really. And the beauty about it as well is that it can be your audio controller and then with a change of one of the skins or you can be on your lighting control.

The DJ Tutor has been around for about five years and you may have seen their product as this big product called the Elite. And we will actually have the KS32, the Elite and some of our new Serial number one. Anyways, we're really excited about this because like I said you can use it with your Logic, your Ableton, your light jockey. It can be used for graphic design, video editing. It just is an interface for your software and makes it into a touch surface so you can now control Everything you want with a 10-point touchscreen. Let me interject here, something that my other half said which I find very inspiring. There are going to be people watching these videos who have sight, you have all your limbs, you're not in a wheelchair, everything. But there will be people who maybe are partially sighted, who maybe can't use their hands correctly, maybe can't use their fingers.

5:09 Maybe there's no buttons, there's nothing to grab hold of

What my other half Yvette said is this is genius for people who maybe have problems with their hands because if you love music and you want to become a DJ but you find it difficult to turn knobs or maybe, you know, you have very little movement in your hands, what you have here is a tactile surface. It is tactile. Maybe there's no buttons, there's nothing to grab hold of. But of course if you do have problems grabbing hold of something, you can do practically everything a DJ can do on a mixer and turntables on a flat surface. So you do not need to grab. All you need to do is press down and move. So I think that's very genius. And what this will do is open DJing up to so many more people who maybe aren't as fortunate as ourselves. That is correct. Yeah.

Alright, guys, like Carl said, there will be a couple of links in the description. There'll be a link in the description, of course, to the main website. There'll be a link in the description, of course, to the BPM show. And don't forget, the BPM show is being held in the NEC this weekend, the 11th and 12th of September. Also on the 13th as well, but the Sunday and the Monday are the main days. Come and see me, come and see Carl, have a chat with us and you can have a go. The BPM show is about touching, feeling, just controlling. It's not like walking past a showroom and being able to look at something. You can get in there and you can have a go with it. So you can have a go with the KS32 on my stand as well as Carl's.

I'll finish off with practice and enjoy. Video number one is just talking about as we've done, showing it to you. There will be another couple of videos in the next few days where it'll be more hands-on. So Carl, thank you very much indeed, sir. You're welcome. Practice and enjoy, guys. Nice one.

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