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While we rampage towards squeezing the regular DJ experience into the smallest space, I thought the optimum size had been reached - until now. MASC Design have managed to compress basic deck functions into a sleek 4 inch square slice of MIDI goodness. Say hi to the Touchtable.

While others seem hellbent on filling every nook and cranny with knobs and buttons, the Touchtable has just enough to fill the space but still keep things relatively useable. Dominating is the jog wheel - flush with the face and coming with a dual scratch/pitch bend function. It also seems to sport a rather luverly inner LCD ring for position and track info. The Touchtable also has an A/B switch for deck selection as well as looping functions and pitch controls too.



This of course was all the hallmarks of "never going to happen", but for the moment, let's entertain the notion that is might. For example, decks 3 and 4 in Traktor would suddenly get the dinkiest controllers on God's earth, that would certainly fit into a spare corner of anyone's setup. And this does at least nod towards the personal scratch device that I hope will one day appear.

It's as if Apple made a MIDI controller to sit at the side of an iPhone based mixer. Unless there's a suitably matching MASC mixer to go with it, it'll look a tad odd next to anything out there right now. But there's no doubting that it is a stunning looking piece of gear, but time will tell as to if it will actually ever appear.

Good work Thomas - I really do hope it does become a reality.

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