The feel of the rubber itself is more grippy than plastic, helping to ensure you can remain in control during a button bashing frenzy. The rubber is translucent and allows the backlight to glow through its entirety, facilitating a finger's path towards it under poor lighting. This marriage of two styles lends the buttons a number of advantages. The buttons on the X1 are interesting, using the soft rubber ala Maschine's buttons, but with a firm click when they get depressed. The encoders are larger and have a subtle clicking action which aids accuracy, as well as a push switch function which I haven't yet activated by mistake. The pots are smooth and the detent is just about right, easy enough to feel for a quick reset but not so defined that it causes annoyance during a frantic control-wringing session. There are two types of knob the majority are 7 o'clock/5 o'clock pots with a central detent, which are complemented by four rotary encoders. It's light but sturdy, and its brushed metal fascia is sleek and sufficiently up-market feeling. There's also a handy spindle hole in the underside of the unit which allows you to plonk it on a turntable platter, at a pinch.Īs for the feel of the unit itself, I've nothing but praise.
Its height helps it sit just right along a laptop or other MIDI controller, and for those with decks and a mixer, the carry case (sold separately) doubles as a spacer to place the X1 at the perfect height. Size wise, the X1 is a nice fit between (or alongside) a turntable or CDJ and a mixer, and the included USB cable should be long enough to allow connection to most orientations of laptop. I spent some time taking it through its paces to see whether it succeeds.
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The Kontrol X1 is a slab of controls with a specific goal: to make interacting with your favourite DJ software (especially if that software is Traktor Pro) more easy and more fun.
NI's increasingly bold steps in the hardware arena all fall on the same principle – that whilst software design frees the product designers' visions from the restrictions of hardware, tangible control is an important aspect of performance equipment creating integrated solutions is the future.
I was, of course, using Traktor, and he was right. "Chris," he began, gently, "as exciting as staring at a screen with one hand on the mouse can be, you just can't beat the feeling of getting the real thing beneath your fingertips". Allow me, if you will, to recount an important lesson my dad once taught me as a teenager, following an unwelcome interruption during a computer session.
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