Reply To: 🆓 FREE! WA Productions DJFX Effects VST Plugin reg. $39.90 LIMITED TIME!

[superabbit]

If I have it correct, a CD turntable is a DJ tool that allows you to perform a variety of turntablist moves using CD’s rather than vinyl. Scratches, crossfades, spin downs and restarts, there’s a spindle in the center you can grab and slow the audio down, etc.

They also usually come with built-in digital FX such as delay/echo, reverb, filter, stutter, etc. There are also ones that let you load up digital audio in file form and do the same things.

They typically have 2 “turntables” and a small DJ style mixer in the center with sliders, for doing the moves associated with mixers.

I’m not sure how they accomplish these things using CD’s, surely there is buffering involved.

The term for these devices that I’m more familiar with is “CDJ.”

The absolute weirdest such controller I’ve ever seen was at (no surprise) the Winter NAMM Show. It was a CDJ rig built in a guitar-ish form factor, with the turntables and mixer mounted in the “body” and some controls on the “neck.” A cousin to the keytar, another effort to make a performance more visible and mobile. Turntable rigs have the same issue that keyboard instruments do: you can’t see the musician’s hands. From the audience, it’s someone standing at a table fiddling with the equipment on it. Guitars and saxophones can’t have all the fun, right?

I don’t believe that it was a serious attempt to market such a product, more an attention-getting proof of concept. It certainly caught my eye. I nicknamed it the “turntar.”

-Erik
___________
superabbit.bandcamp.com