Long story short: We love our Dark Fader and the amazing tactile feeling of an original Technics SL1200 pitch fader. But user who played on TT in past missed something: supporting the complete turn table beat matching workflow. They wished nudging via turns, holding & releasing music via platter fingertip, searching/scratching to cue position. They asked us to place the powerful metal jogwheel from Dark Wheel controller into Dark Fader.
That’s the idea: Keeping the Dark Fader further and welcome a Dark Fader with Jogwheel in our family. Dark Fader TT is targeting DJ’s who search a MIDI class compliant and mobile TT workflow solution.
Technical concept: we integrated the HiRes metal jogwheel from Dark Wheel and made it TOUCH sensitive. The new VINYL mode allows holding and releasing music by fingertip (in addition to nudging in CDJ mode). And we used the moment to complete their idea with additional features:
Dark Fader TT is a full 4 deck controller (4 color LED’s, 4 MIDI channel). And MIDI user might love our new BANK button: offering additional layer for user mappings. The jogwheel simulates standard encoder MIDI messages in additional layer, so can perfectly used e.g. for scrolling in Track browser. Last not least we added more powerful preferences in Power-On Setup for user specific configurations.
Project status (July 2022): Hardware & firmware is Ready to Go, first devices will be send to our beta user in August. We plan to complete all documentation (Datasheets, Power-On Customizing Guide, Printed Manuals) until eof. September 2022.
Update Oct. 1, 2022: We are Ready to Go : ). Beta testing is finished, documentation completed (printed manuals, pdf’s links below), default mappings are published – we are ready to build DFTT on users request.
Let us know what you think about our NEW Dark Fader TT.