Maybe Im a Dreamer

This isnt really a Traktor request per se but more of a hardware software integration idea but I think this is probably the most appropriate place for it.

Creativity and ideas (for me) rarely come while Im sitting in front of a computer screen (ironically...its my primary chosen medium for all things "artistic"). So keeping this in mind, I was thinking about how when simply listening to music, I often have the most clarity of thought (for mixing ideas, cueing, etc)

So I was thinking this would be a GREAT way to capture ideas (in the moment). How easy would it be to manufacture a low capacity USB mp3 player/Traktor light software combo?

I small device with a few buttons to set, store, move, navigate through cue points, play/pause, etc.

If you wanted to be over the top...make it bluetooth compatible and have it respond to voice commands like ("play", "cue", "store", etc).....and oh yea....the ability to record digital audio for on the spot verbal idea documentation.


Typical scenario:

-have a track playing on the device in my car on the way to the 9-5 job (plugged into the line-in jack on my car stereo of course)

-have my nifty bluetooth ear piece in my ear (aka douchebag hearing aid)

-I hear good cue point I want to cue

-I say "cue" and a cue point is cued (I've got settings set to "quantize" and "snap" for easy cue dropping

-I say "store" and its stored

-I say "back" and the track hops back the last cue I stored (just to make sure it took)

-go home pop it into the laptop and open up Traktor to find all my perfectly stored cue points


The bluetooth earpiece has the ability to function as an earphone for the tracks playing or you can choose to leave it off and only respond to voice commands.

The device itself has tiny buttons to serve the same functions (or you could have an optional "trigger device" a small hand held bluetooth device with a few buttons on it for the same functions)

 

This is some next level ish you're speaking of

Maybe someone could write an iPhone app similar to what you've proposed.

 

BTW, the djay software allows you to use an USB device for monitoring. So you can use USB headsets or in my case I am using the callpod drone USB to bluetooth adapter to get solid and stable bluetooth stereo support (neither windows nor OSX have solid bluetooth stereo support).