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What is going on? UniqueSquared.com, Scott Magno, DJ Madflip. We are at Winter Music
Conference 2011 and we've got a surprise for you folks, yes, the Numark NS6 we got one
here in full fledge motion and you know what? Mike is about to break it down for you. Mike
tell me about the NS6. Tell me why this thing is so fly and everyone is going to be loving
it. I've been with Numark through the development of the NS7 the V7's and i'm here to talk to
you about the NS6. So i'll get into some of the new features that are on the NS6, so it's
basically a MIDI controller obviously everything is MIDI but we have a four channel stand alone
mixer here so you can plug in turntables CD players, and you've also got within itch a
four deck skin and you've got 2 layer buttons on each deck of the controller so you can
toggle between decks one and three and decks two and four on the controller. a lot of the
other functions are going to be the same so you're going to have all the same browser
controls and you're not going to lose anything as far as all the fun looping and auto looping
and cues we've got some extra things like loop rolls and the effects parameters are
built right into the unit too so you can get into some real glitchy stuff and i'll show
you a demo in a little bit. So all i was doing was just triggering some loop rolls, just
holding down the shift button and triggering some different measures and you know doing
a break or an effect quick highpass filter and you can get into a really dynamic set
with just playing around with one track, i'll show you some cool things with four tracks
right now, so we'll keep this one going. cool so blindly just grabbing tracks from
my crate just throwin em in syncing them up and just layering four tracks making some
loops making the loops shorter longer, sliding them to the left and right, doing some EFX
play as well one cool thing that is on the NS6 is we put in this LED here on the strip
search so you can reference where you are on the track on the front panel you've got
all the controls that you would need on a mixer like your cross fader, contour adjustment,
and you've also got your fader assign too because it's a four channel mixer so you can
assign any channel to the crossfader, you've also go your headphone gain and cue mix as
well. like i said the EFX are built right into it and you can assign your EFX to any
channel so you can put 2 EFX on one channel you can put 2 EFX on the master as well there's
also this cool skip button that allows you to move forward and backward through the track
without losing the timeline of the track So we've got the track going i'm going to
go ahead and toggle through the track that's playing and i'm actually moving through the
track right now and i want to get to the break down quicker and there i am so now i'll get
to the big break down, let the beat back in, move forward a little and we stayed within
the timeline of the track so if we had a mix going we wouldn't of lost that we could just
get through the track or backup in the track as well.
>>Very cool now that increment that you're skipping around is that assigned within the
loop? like is that a measure t's 8 measures basically.
Stand alone mixer that's one of the things that makes this really unique out there you
also have a dedicated booth out as well and a master on top and you've got some view options
as well so you can change the skin a little bit on itch as well.
That's great so you can sort of customize the look if you don't need to have a lot of
information on there or if you need some more room to scroll through your tracks you can
be really dynamic as far as changing the skin you know i heard the Jog wheels are really
nice and you can also adjust the crossfader directly on the NS6 crossfader curve with
that man it's really fantastic. I'll let you hear just a couple quick cuts,
i'll throw up a track and load up a scratch. So just a
couple quick intricate cuts you've got a really sharp contour on the crossfader and there's
no latency either on the platter. there's this nice rim around the platter the surface
of the platter here thats got an LED under it so you can kind of reference almost like
a marker on a piece of vinyl. there it is NS6 we've got it now you now it's going to
be incredible it's just amazing we're so excited to have it thanks so much to Numark and Mike
hoska for bringing it out to us, man Mike thank you so much brother.
Thanks so much for having me on Take us out with something super fresh. This
is Scott Magno DJ Madflip be U be unique at Uniquesquared.com