Touch Innovations KS32 Video 1 Overview of the Hardware

0:00 Jonathan here, The DJ Tutor

Alright guys, Jonathan here, The DJ Tutor. I have a very good friend of mine, Mr. Carl Detkin behind me from Touch Innovations. There he is! And we have in... well, I have in front of me a new piece of kit. Now again it depends on when you're watching this video. If you're watching it right now as soon as it's been uploaded, it is very new. There are how many, Carl? In the UK? Right now you have the very first production one. Okay. Okay, first production KS32 in the United Kingdom. It is a 10-point touch sensitive control unit which can be used on a lot of programs at the moment and I believe that Touch Innovations, as we speak, are making sure that it can be used on more and more. So what is it? What does it do? Well, first of all, I've got it set up for Virtual DJ 8.

1:47 Playing, buttons, visual interpretation

I've got this connected to the Pioneer XDJ-RX as well, so I'm using the sound card in that. But if you wanted to, you could just use an external sound card, your laptop and you're pretty much good to go. So why? Why have something like this? Well let's imagine that you want to impress your clients. You want to take... You want to be visual yourself as well as being the person giving the audio, making the music. And when I say visual, a lot of DJs now are finding that they get more clients, they get a better client base, they get more revenue by becoming themselves more visual in what they do. It's no longer about a DJ being behind a set of decks and pressing buttons, and the client doesn't know whether you're pressing one button on an iPhone or a thousand buttons on a huge mixer. To be quite honest, and you will understand this, even if you're not a DJ, imagine you've never even known about DJing, you honestly don't know, to be quite honest,

A piece of kit behind there worth a hundred dollars, hundred bucks or maybe five thousand dollars, five thousand pounds and to be quite honest these days DJs can. You could go into a nightclub, you could go to a wedding event and the DJ could have a set of the latest kit that could have cost an extortionate amount of money. They could be playing... Come on Eileen, they could be playing the Macarena, they could be playing Elvis Presley. Then in the other room, in the same hotel, there could be another DJ playing exactly the same track, but they could be playing it on a controller that costs £100. So that's great, we've got the audio there, but what they're not doing, they're not giving to the public is a visual interpretation of what they're doing. Now the KS32...

It does that. It gives a visual interpretation, so I'm going to press play there. The tune you're listening to, by the way, is by Mr Lenny Fontana, featuring D-Train, When You Feel What Love Has. There will be a link in the description to Karmic Power Records. So, what have we got? We have got a touch sensitive screen that has all of a sudden stopped. No it hasn't, there you go. I'm not pressing the buttons correctly. Buttons, well there aren't any buttons because it's all touch sensitive. So the skin you see here has been specifically made for myself and for VirtualDJ. We can set hot cues if we want to, we can set loops, we have a sampler, slicer, so there you go, hot cues. Now it's not dissimilar to

4:31 It is and it isn't tactile

Now this video really is showing you talking about the KS32. There will be more videos and in those videos we're going to go much more in depth on what this can do. I did say earlier on, or not earlier on, but I said in the first video that something like this is great, let's say for people who have problems with their hands, who can't hold buttons or dials because there's nothing to hold here. It is and it isn't tactile. It isn't because it's a flat screen, but it is tactile because it's about what you put on the screen that will make it tactile. So you can make it as lovable and as carefree as you want to, or you can make it not as intricate, but you can just have one button. Now also without going much, without carrying on waffling with this video, we have a screen here for VirtualDJ.

If I wanted to, if I was a light DJ, I could have, let's say for example, Chauvet, I think it's Chauvet, is it Chauvet Express? Sorry. Show Express. Show Express, sorry. 512 on here. So I could perform my light show using the KS32. But at the same time, I can still be DJing so I can go from one screen to the other. Now, as crazy as it sounds, that's what you can do with it. Okay, I'm going to finish off with practice and enjoy. By all means come visit myself and Carl at the BPM show is being held in the NEC this coming weekend, the 11th and 12th of September. Alright, so video number two, there'll be lots more to come and I'll finish off with practice and enjoy Lenny Fontana D-Train in the house like it. Thank you very much.

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