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Mike Walsh
Joined: 28 Jun 2014
Posts: 6397
Location: King's Lynn, UK.
Posted: Sun 19 Nov 2017, 17:49
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'TEMPS' - Electron-based weather app for nearly every Pup...
Subject description: Runs in the tray.....and a word of advice for any Puppians who may try it!
Evening, all.
I can't help thinking I've mentioned this somewhere else.....but I'm hanged if I can find it. So, for anyone who'd like a halfway-decent weather app, which runs from the tray, here is
I've been running this for around a year, and I'm extremely impressed with it. I think I found it on either MakeUseOf or OMG! Ubuntu (but I can't remember now!)
Homepage is here:-
It's essentially a smartphone app, but has been adapted to run on the Windows, Mac & Linux desktops. After downloading, extract the package, and you'll end with a directory called either
, depending on your architecture.....it's available for both.
Inside this directory, you'll find a binary called, quite simply, 'temps'. Click on this, and after quite a few seconds, it'll launch. I believe it's not only setting itself in /tmp during this time (like AppImages do), but it's also connecting to the OpenWeatherMap API.
Talking of which, you'll need to get yourself an OpenWeatherMap API 'key'. You
use the existing one that comes with it, but after around 4-6 weeks this will quit on you. Just go to
.....create a free a/c, and then click on the API tab at the top, and you can create as many API 'keys' as you need. Doesn't take long.
When you've got your 'key', bring the app up with a click on the tray icon, then click on the two horizontal bars in the top-left corner; this will take you to the settings view. You'll need to delete the default location, which is Berlin; enter
location (you can get this from the OpenWeatherMap 'Maps' tab), then delete the API key and enter your own. I find the easiest way to do this is to copy'n'paste the same way Puppy does in urxvt; simply highlight to 'copy', then use the middle mouse button to 'paste'. (If you attempt to right-click for 'Paste' while the app's open, it promptly disappears..!)
When you've got the settings how you want 'em, just click on 'Apply'.
You get a four day forecast, and you can bring up temperatures for different times of the day by clicking on any of the forecast days. This gives you a simple temperature 'line graph'; by moving along this it'll show the rise & fall throughout the day. To go back, just click anywhere on the line.
It changes colour according to the temperature; from greys/dark blues for very cold, to deep orange & red for very hot.....and it has some pretty neat animations for rain/hail/sleet/snow, etc. All very nifty!
(I'm afraid mine are dull gray at the moment, 'cos it's currently bloody cold over here..!!)
You can unpack the directory anywhere you want. /Opt is as good a place as any, or better still, /mnt/home. If you want it to start at boot-time, just sym-link the 'temps' binary into /root/Startup.
Couldn't be simpler!
It creates a directory in /root/.config. If you want to run this in multiple Pups, as I do, the easiest way is to place the Temps directory on a remote partition; sym-link the Temps 'binary' into each Pup's /root/Startup; allow it to create the 'config' folder in /root/.config the first time, then move this to the same location as the remote Temps directory, and sym-link it back into each Pup's /root/.config directory. This preserves your settings, and saves having to set it up again for every Pup.
A word of warning, though; it seems the bods at OpenWeather occasionally decide to edit place names. Mine has been entered as 'King's Lynn, GB' for ages.....until this last week or so, that is. I started getting 'Failure during data fetching', along with loads of squiggles instead of the proper display. Turns out someone had taken it into their head to remove the apostrophe ('), so that it now reads 'Kings Lynn, GB'. That's
it took to chuck a spanner in the works, so.....
be aware of this possibility, boys & girls.
Personally, I can thoroughly recommend this one, kiddiwinks. It's one of the neatest weather apps I've seen by a country mile. The only Pups I can't get it to run in are Racy 5.5 and Lucid; it requires a minimum glibc of at least
, I'm afraid.....
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Posted: Sun 19 Nov 2017, 18:03
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I've been running it a while also. Although, lately it's been having issues with "failure during data fetching"
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Mike Walsh
Joined: 28 Jun 2014
Posts: 6397
Location: King's Lynn, UK.
Posted: Sun 19 Nov 2017, 18:19
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spiritwild wrote:
I've been running it a while also. Although, lately it's been having issues with "failure during data fetching"
Mm-hm. Sounds familiar.....
I tracked
problem down to the simple fact of some bright spark at t'other end deciding to remove
apostrophe from the spelling of my location. And, as I said, that was
it took to completely bugger things up.
I kept checking my location with its normal spelling, and it kept coming back with 'location not found'... (??)
re-install the contents of the Temp directory.....but according to the Github page, it hasn't been upgraded for around a year. The version available for d/l is still the exact same one I downloaded a year ago!
Anyway; my advice is to check the spelling for the location you use very closely, using OpenWeather's own 'Maps' tab on the website. Zoom in as far as you need to, in order to make sure you get the closest location possible.....there's a hell of a lot more weather stations reporting to these websites than most folks realise. I could hardly believe it, but despite King's Lynn being fairly average-sized as far as towns go, it turns out there's nearly 30 weather stations within a 10-mile radius of us..! So it really
a case of 'take your pick'...
No guarantees, but that fixed it for me earlier this evening. It's worth a try.
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Posted: Sun 19 Nov 2017, 19:25
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spiritwild wrote:
I've been running it a while also. Although, lately it's been having issues with "failure during data fetching"
When mine did that - after I clicked the little
icon in upper left there was a line on the next screen that says "You need a free api key from openweathermap"
Mike described how to get one in his first post.
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Posted: Mon 20 Nov 2017, 09:12
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Thanks, working now. It use to work with city,st but they seem to have changed it up a bit.
I just removed the state and it seemed to be working again.
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Terry H
Joined: 29 Mar 2009
Posts: 782
Location: The Heart of Muskoka, ON Canada
Posted: Mon 20 Nov 2017, 17:30
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Thanks for creating this thread introducing this weather app, it works very nice apart from an issue on bootup. I installed it and set up, all working well. On bootup I get an error message that
not found
, so it doesn't start at all. The path is correct.
As the executable is named only
, so to test it I renamed the executable to
. On startup, it runs and initially displays an error, but then changes to display the local forecast correctly. It still displays the error message screen with message
/Path/to/Temps-linux-ia32/Temps.app.app not found.
Strange that it gives a not found error but still runs.
So the question is does anyone have an idea why it is trying to execute Temps.app, subsequently causing the error?
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Mike Walsh
Joined: 28 Jun 2014
Posts: 6397
Location: King's Lynn, UK.
Posted: Mon 20 Nov 2017, 18:32
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Hi, Terry.
You want my advice?
Ignore it.
I've had the exact same problem all the months I've been using it, right from day one. After the first few times (when, just like you, I started trying to 'fix' it), I quit worrying about it. It starts up, every time, as good as gold. Why bother trying to 'fix' summat that isn't actually 'broken'?
Sure, it's a wee bit annoying.....but it's got so it's just part of the normal start-up routine. It's like the desktop 'furniture'; you get so used to seeing the stuff there, that, half the time, you simply don't pay it that much attention any longer..!
So long as it runs every time, and does what its developer intended it should.....why worry? I suspect it's a bug in the internal code that slipped through the net. I've learnt to live with it. And don't forget; this was originally an Android/iOS smartphone app (you can tell that by the shape of the window). It could be something to do with the way in which those OS's mount stuff.
Who knows?
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Terry H
Joined: 29 Mar 2009
Posts: 782
Location: The Heart of Muskoka, ON Canada
Posted: Mon 20 Nov 2017, 18:42
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Thanks Mike, happy with your reply. At least I now know I'm not getting an error, that others aren't getting. Will live with it now.
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B.K. Johnson
Joined: 12 Oct 2009
Posts: 810
Posted: Tue 02 Jan 2018, 14:13
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Subject description: An alternative
What about this as an alternative? That is if you use Firefox. Sorry Mike!
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weather app in Firefox.
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B.K. Johnson
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Mike Walsh
Joined: 28 Jun 2014
Posts: 6397
Location: King's Lynn, UK.
Posted: Wed 03 Jan 2018, 07:48
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No worries, BKJ.
The more choices there are available for Pup, the better I like it. Helps us
out that way.....because, as you doubtless know, what appeals to one person doesn't necessarily float another one's boat!
Thanks for the info.
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Posts: 183
Posted: Wed 03 Jan 2018, 08:54
Post subject:
it's funny, maybe I'm weird or just creative. You could do anything with browser add ons, wine, online apps, etc. For me it's more of a "I made this work".
I have the temperature displayed on conky, just the temp and either cloudy,sunny or whatever. It's so damn primitive but it's the fact that I had to edit the command to run inside the program.
Except when theirs a glitch, then I go insane.
You would think it's the greatest thing on earth. I may never even pay attention to it but hey, it's my creation. to each their own.
I guess it's like gardening, when it's all said and done, I could have bought tomatoes cheaper. lol
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Mike Walsh
Joined: 28 Jun 2014
Posts: 6397
Location: King's Lynn, UK.
Posted: Wed 03 Jan 2018, 09:10
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Hi, spiritwild.
That's how it is with me and .pets, SFSs, etc. I like nothing better than taking a package built for one distribution (say, 'buntu-based), and re-packaging it with whatever's necessary to make it run in, say, one of the Slackos. Perhaps even a different Pup-series.
I also like taking stuff I find at Github or Sourceforge (especially the latter; they have a huge repo of stuff there), and turning it into a working Puppy package, complete with Menu entries and everything. Initially, I'll build these for myself, but if they then survive further testing throughout the 'kennels', I'm more than happy to share.
I've become extremely proficient at tracking down relevant libs, etc..!
'I made this work'. Yep, couldn't agree more. It's
satisfying when that happens.
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Mike Walsh
Joined: 28 Jun 2014
Posts: 6397
Location: King's Lynn, UK.
Posted: Sun 27 May 2018, 15:53
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Evening, all.
Following on from Terry H's observation about getting a start-up error message for Temps, saying it couldn't be found (but still started!), I've tracked the problem down.
IF you remove the sym-link for the 'Temps' binary from ~/Startup. It'll still start.....once. It places a .desktop entry in ~/.config/autostart.....which, from what I understand, is fast becoming the 'standard' location for stuff you want to start at boot. There's rumours that ~/Startup may be eventually left-out in later Puppies, and removed from the 'path'.
However, for this particular app, you can't correct that error. This thing started life as an Android smartphone app.....hence the .app extension it keeps looking for. You can edit and mess around with the executable's name and/or the .desktop entry in ~/.config/autostart all you like.....but this thing has been hard-coded to re-create its startup script/.desktop entry
every time it shuts down
. So any edits you make simply get overwritten.....and you get the error messages, and failure to start.
I put the sym-link into /root/Startup.....because it was the only way to consistently start the thing. Or, thinking about it, a wee script placed in /etc/init.d would probably do the trick just as well.....pointing to the executable's location.
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Terry H
Joined: 29 Mar 2009
Posts: 782
Location: The Heart of Muskoka, ON Canada
Posted: Tue 29 May 2018, 19:56
Post subject:
Following your revisiting Temps, I have installed it on my Stretch-7.5 RC2 install, which is my got to puppy. I am running it from /root/startup with symlink to executable. It now starts without error message. I just have a timing issue, that it is starting prior to my wifi being accessible. So I may look at running from a script with a sleep in it, but its not a big issue as it is, just a click on taskbar icon after wifi up and its fine.
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Mike Walsh
Joined: 28 Jun 2014
Posts: 6397
Location: King's Lynn, UK.
Posted: Wed 30 May 2018, 06:09
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Hi, Terry.
Mm. Nice one. Of course, the thing that puts many people off using Electron-based apps is the enormous size of the Electron 'framework' itself. In the case of Temps, the whole thing is around 125 MB (!!).....but the 'framework' accounts for something like 110 of that.
So by running a 'common' install of Temps from a remote data partition, sym-linked into every Pup at the appropriate places, and a 'common' .config directory sym-linked the same way, Temps occupies no 'Puppy-space' at all, maintains the settings across the kennels, and is available to all Pups.
(And that 'error' message is just like part of the furniture now; I'm so used to it, I no longer 'see' it any more.)
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This one is on my short list of to-do caches.
This one is on my short list of to-do caches.
congrats. on the upcoming wedding. can't wait to read your postings from the trip{caching} not the honeymoon!LOLO. Can't wait till I get a chance to go down that way.
jim white
After ww9 and MathSeeker went to New Orleans, all he could talk about was View Carre'! It sounds awesome.
geo-j was born in New Orleans, I haven't been since 1984 - year after we were married and the thing that impressed me was the enormous pile of parts left over when they had a crawfish boil one night. OH AND CAFE DU MONDE!!!! Gotta go there!!
Congratulation and may all your caching be great
Congrats on the wedding, so proud for you two. Enjoy the trip and the caching
Thanks everyone so much! We love our extended geocaching family. Hope to meet all of you one day!
Pretty much got our trip caches planned out, 6 on the way down, including a quick cache in Texas in Texarkana and then about 30 in New Orleans and 6 on the way home including a quick run into Natchez to log one in Mississippi. Hoping to stop and get the hotel cache that's in Russelville I think as well.
I'm sure we'll have some good stories, and I messaged Bamboozle from View Carre and we should be meeting up with him next Monday afternoon. Wish I could make it my 200th, but I'm 43 away...we'll see. maybe some new caches will post in the river valley this week? hint hint. lol.
Thanks again everyone! Oh and where we're getting married at, we'll be leaving a special present next to the cache that's there that day. Most of you in the area have gotten it, but some haven't so...
Mother to 2 dogs - Foxer, the chicken herder and Bo, the pug, 1 kitty chupacabra princess Daksi and Married to a wonderful man, Pizzaboy2600.
I gots nothing. :P
Hotel in Russellville? Perhaps you're speaking of the Best Western in Clarksville?
BTW, have a great time and give a report back here when you return. I'm going to make my own bookmark list of "foreign" caches just in case I ever get to the four corners of the world.
We had a blast on our honeymoon. Sometimes I think I'm a little more crazy for cache than Pizzaboy2600 but he withstood it gallantly! I think we hit a total of 22 caches in Louisiana, including most of the French Quarter, and a good portion of the ones in City Park. Only hit 2 in Arkansas on the trip...Tha' Lighthouse on the way down and one in Dumas on the way back. We did the way back in one day and pairing that with a little caching made for a long day! Too tired to stop by the time we hit Clarksville. We were able to pick up one in the Texas part of Texarkana and a pretty cool Lookout Tower one in Mississippi. Also picked up one in one of my favorite places Transylvania!
View Carre in NOLA was amazing! And definitely should be on the must do list of any cacher! The view was fabulous and the stories told by our guide were wonderful as well.
There were two other honeymooning geocaching couples there while we were but did not meet them "on the trail". We did however meet some cachers from the Buffalo, NY area while taking notes for a virtual!
I would also highly recommend the Yo Mama cache in the Quarter, not for the cache but for the burgers at the cache location. Best darn burger ever, peanut butter and bacon!
It was neat getting to another state and seeing how they hid their urban caches...the only thing about NOLA is that most of the quarter smells like pee and vomit which made getting up close and personal with some cache locations not very pleasant at all!
We would also like to highly recommend the Olivier House Hotel to anyone going. Older furnishings, not cookie cutter and right up our alley!
This trip reallly made me wish virtuals were still allowed, had so much fun doing the virtuals down there (our first ones). And if anyone would like to see us in our wedding outfits. Take a gander at the "Soup On" cache by jdmhunter at Fort Chaffee. Haven't posted pics yet but will in a few days...waiting to log finds in the correct order.
And feel free anyone who is on facebook to send me a friend request. Kristie Boucher Moore is my "real name".
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Mother to 2 dogs - Foxer, the chicken herder and Bo, the pug, 1 kitty chupacabra princess Daksi and Married to a wonderful man, Pizzaboy2600.
Glad you managed to put together the event this month in V.B. Hope you remember to bring your pics. from the trip to share with the group. Looking forward to seeing everyone before the Holidays.
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Your tour features Alpine panoramas from start to finish, idyllic lakes, towns and villages, and the fairytale castles of King Ludwig II. But these are rewards that have to be earned – by tackling the many climbs that this route has to offer. From its starting point in Lindau on the shores of Lake Constance, the route makes its way to the Allgäu past crystal-clear lakes and Hohenschwangau and Neuschwanstein castles. After a long stretch of unspoilt scenery, it ends at Berchtesgaden and Lake Königssee, whose beauty provides ample reward for all the many metres that have been climbed along the way.
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TYMB exclusive online interview with Mike Rusczyk.You asked for it and here it is! TYBBz and the TYMB have joined forces to bring you the first ever Mike Rusczyk web exclusive interview. All questions were asked by the TYBB (Tum Yeto Bad Boyz) and the TYMB - Tum Yeto messageboard members.
You asked the questions....Mike Rusczyk answered them......enjoy!
How much input are you going to put into your new graphics? (ie-Jeremy Wray is known for drawing a lot of his graphics, even in the team series.
Mike Rusczyk
Kinda a lot I have been working with Foundation's art director Nathan Bell a lot on this first run, my first boards are art work from my friends. It also looks as if I'm going to hand paint 150 boards for an art show or a promotion and choose one of those as one of my first graphics.
Do you plan on putting out some crazy designs?
Hope FULLy but there is always the question when making shit, will anybody get this? and buy it? and like it? I would like all of my shit that gets put out to be things I'm into and most of all the kind of art I like. < if that makes any sense, I would also like to start making really sick clothing.
How does one make the decision to turn pro?
I don't know, like I would skate any way so if it's there, do it.
Why don't you come to quebec?
Been there, too French just kidding, I would love to go back to Quebec and have some time to bug out a bit and skate.
six motha fuckin thunders
If you weren't riding for Foundation, what company would you be riding for?
This could get me in trouble, how about a list of companies I like. Krooked, Enjoi, Girl, Blueprint and Shut.
If you had to live in one city and were only allowed to skate there for the rest of your life, where would it be and why?
That would be BarceChagoBankToCurbanyTownUsWhatever I love that city!
How do you feel about the direction that skateboarding is taking? Quite a few people on Foundation are throwing themselves down giant stairs and rails, but you keep it creative. Do you feel that the 'hammers' stage is just a fad?
More like the "creative thing" being a fad. If it's popular do a banging ollie shiffty, then the kids that do big and bigger will do them but only for a while until they get bored, then once bored they realize this shit is easy and do a kick flip shifty down a 13. You see it's a breath of fresh air to see some other shit every once and a while but the kids that "keep up" know that as well so the norm is to do "other shit" to complete a part. Like I got my rail shit my lines and my creative shit, part done. I'll tell you right now and come clean I CANT do the shit that a lot of people can bring them selves to do so in the process of trying to skirt the issue of busting the Gnar I do stuff that I can do. I don't try to be creative guy and I do believe the way I skate is out dated, but fuck it at least I don't do shifty ollies. P.S. to all shiffty oilers I mean no harm shit looks tight in photos, I just have a weak shiffty.
What got you into skateboarding?
My older brother he was a real bad ass and I wanted to be like him.
the big deluth
Who did you look up to growing up?
people around me doing shit that I thought I could never do, the people excelling in art skateboarding. The weirdest part is when you come to a time when you level off or go beyond the people you're looking up to, it becomes sort of like a sentiment when you think how you used to emulate them and want what they do to be yours.
Can you drop in vert?
Yeah it's my only vert trick.
What has skating given you that you wouldnt have been able to experience without it?
This is one of those long long list of if not for this then..... But the fact of the matter is; myself, sounds weird and kinda lame but I think if it were not for skating and all it brings I probably not have a clue who the fuck I am.
How many boards can you ollie?
The new one is how many stairs can you nollie. 2 - 3 some: like thigh high, my thigh I have no idea how high your thigh is.
Guest (is a girl)
Are you available? if yes, whats your phone number?
Sorry, you'll have to get in line with all the other poor girls that will never get a chance to experience such a masterpiece as myself. Come on thats not a real question, if you want I could get you Cory Duffle's p-#.
Guest (is a girl)
Are you interested in bondage?
Seems like a bit much don't you think?
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What are your thoughts on the band, The Pixies?
Pixies are ripping Frank Black is a Genius, I got to see Frank Black and the Catholics in a little place by my house two members of the Pixies were there and only about 100 people, the place held like 500 people. They ripped played all the good shit and plenty of the perfect songs from the Pixies era. It's funny to me that the show was so dead and just six months later the Pixies were back together and selling out huge shows at 40 bucks a ticket. That tells you there's something in a name, could have saw them for $12 bucks.
Royale with Cheese
Favorite trick, and favorite transition to ride?
Don't Pigeon whole me, I'm not good enough to be a trannie dog. My favorite transition is natural found obscure and some what a pain in the ass to skate. Trick would be nollie crack, you know when your ridding down the street and nollie a sidewalk crack.
Tell us one untold barcelona story.
this one time like we were wasted and stuff..... bla bla , For real we happen to be there when Barcelona won the World Cup (you know soccer) and the night lasted till the day peaple were bugging out of their heads going nuts fireworks screaming and general freak-out, the cops were mellow and it was a blast.
we heard you are into modifying your clothing yourself, anything you are particulary proud of?
I have a hoddie I reversed and tweaked so the finer points are pulled out for everyone to see, I don't much like it any more but when I made it I was really proud of it. I have this shirt that I cut the chest out of and stitched a new reversible on in to it I like that one a lot. I'll try to post some pictures with this interview.
favourite kind of coffee?
Large coffee with a shot of Espresso, the place by my house calls it a Goat Herder I call it sanity for the 9 to 5.
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Who do you most often skate with on the Foundation team?
The new secret rider I cant tell you more because I'm bound by contract, but she steps to shit no one I mean no one steps to.
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Who pushes you and your skating?
My hommies they are better then me and I get jealous and feel like I have to push myself, peep the hommie video bout to drop early next year.
What is your first memory with a skateboard?
I was really young, like 6 and my older brother had these two banana boards and for like one week we would cruse around the tennis courts by my hose on them on the summer nights. Pretty sick feeling if I can remember back to and it looks clear and fun.
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Favorite activity other than skateboarding?
Working on my computer making shit, art what ever. I'm a nerd but sick as hell on rocking the ones and zeros.
first bluntslide ever where? when?
I don't know, I did blunt slide Hubba hide out first try really long time ago, I sear just ask Mat Obrian?????????
If you could only listen to three bands for the rest of your life, who would they be?
Guided By Voices is in there because they have so many songs it could take a good amount of years before your over it. Bob Marley because you need that once in awhile. The Rolling Stones or the Kinks, again because it's pure rock and roll and there are lots of amazing songs on lots of amazing albums.
What is your favorite era in skateboarding, and why? What time periods do you think have influenced your skating the most?
I lived in Chicago when Stereo was just starting to pave it's way, It was a really good time to be skating. Things started to mellow out not be so over tech and ridicules and I was in the right place. So I think thats around Visual Sounds time, Ethan has a very good part in that if you have not had a chance I suggest you learn. But that was the best time a lot of good friends - parties and the best spots that were not a bust. Hot Chicago nights in the loop were the best and we really did not know what we had, but thats the magic of the past.
favourate skate video?
There is a load of great old ones Video Days, Memory Screen, but if you get a chance check out the Blue Print Video "Lost and Found"
Royale with Cheese
Favorite movie?
I don't know about Favorites but try this one "The Man Who Fell To Earth" <--- obscure and a bit boring at times but silently perfect.
What do you think you would be doing if you didn't skate?
Sitting on my ass hating my miserable time in this special place called planet life.
Favorite album?
I'll have to say I'm a pretty big fan of ( Mag Earwig ) --- Guided by Voices and ten bazzillion other alubms
Are you the kind of guy who work on a trick or you just go to the spot, warm up and land it in like 4 tries?
M.R. Well I warm up does that count? No I work for my shit and should be working harder some times. It helps to be stoked and some place new that makes me accidentally land on my skateboard and ride away.
Royale with Cheese
Favorite country to visit?
All others I went to the mother land once, Lots of Poloks there, it's a special you know it's where all civilization sprouted from. If you go back far enough you start to realize we are all Polish!
Royale with Cheese
Favorite Food?
Japaneseie It's gotta be Sashimi
How does one like yourself get pumped for the day?
Coffee and a vague feeling that you could do a lot of shit if you put some time into it.
im andrew!!
How did you first get hooked up?
If you mean with foundation: Long store short Dorien Tucker and Jon Minner two good people, words of mouth, and the right place at sort of an ok-ish time.
How often daily does your last name get butchered?
Every time I go to SafeWay and you pay for some shit and they have that stupid policy where the poor bastard at the check stand has to look at your receipt and glance up at you with a confused look in their eyes and destroy thousands of years of Polish heritage and say "thank you Mr. ---------- Ruuzzcxhzack" I try not to shop at SafeWay and I try to eat mostly Organic food stuffs.
How old were you when you first started skating?
11 years of age
How long did it take you to get your first sponsor?
I'm just on flow---------------------------> like 8 years it was Acme Skateboards Remy Stratton was sending me shit.
Is Chi-town on your top five places to skate?
For sure but it's more of Chicago a long time ago when the shit was not a bust. Good friends really good spots and a green mind.
Miniramp sesh or hill bombing?
I'm a pussy when it comes to bombing hills, I come from Chicago it's ultra flat there. Miniramps are fun and very safe but it's hard to learn new shit, you end up just doing frontside grinds the whole time.
Did you pick your music for the art bars video?
I'm usually very picky about stuff like this but Josh Beagle was like check out this song I put some of your footage to. I was really stoked on the band it was when I was in to a lot of instrumental math rocky shit. I like it a lot and thought it worked. in that part I made the intro sound song thing and the song thing at the end of my part. For a while I was super into making crazy noise on the computer, I liked that part and that video I think things came together really good on that one.
if so, how did you become aware of the artist and where can i find their music?
The band was Freedom for Saturn, they were friends of the guys at foundation and nice guys themselves.
How come you dont come to the novato skatepark very often?
Too fucking busy I like that park a lot it's really fun to do laps at.


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Here's an interesting development in the ongoing data-privacy imbroglio over at Bloomberg LP. The company just named former IBM CEO Sam Palmisano as an independent adviser with the task of reviewing and recommending changes on privacy and data policies.
The move is meant to regain the trust of Bloomberg's terminal clients, like J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs. They're understandably perturbed by revelations that reporters at Bloomberg News used a function that tracks how recently a client has logged in as a way of generating story leads about personnel changes.
Palmisano, Bloomberg said in a statement, will "immediately undertake a review of the company's current practices and policies for client data and end user information, including a review of access issues recently raised by the company's clients." He'll report directly to the company's board of directors. Helping him will be the Hogan Lovells law firm and the Promontory Financial Group.
One wonders if part of the job will be to conduct a full audit of how many reporters used the controversial "Z function" to view client activity, how often it was used and what the result was, specifically if its use led to stories that were published. As I wrote earlier this week, that data probably exists, because Bloomberg has always been a big data company with a knack for keeping track of what its reporters do. And if there is an audit, will its results be publicly disclosed?
The function in question showed two bits of data that have made Bloomberg clients — essentially the who's who of Wall Street and the financial industry in general — a little queasy. First, it reveals the last time a person logged in to his or her terminal. Reporters would sometimes use that to start asking questions about whether or not someone had left a given firm, and, if they had, write a story about it.
The other thing it was said to show is how often a client used a given function, though not in such granular detail that you could see what stocks or bonds were being researched. But again, it's the sort of thing that might lead to questions that wouldn't otherwise be asked, and eventually to stories that wouldn't otherwise have been written.
Bloomberg also named its editor at large, Clark Hoyt, a former public editor at the New York Times, to review the relationship between Bloomberg's commercial operations and its news operations.
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Reviewer: Gizmo • Date: June 2011 • Link: Numark • Price: $999/£799/€999
Just when you thought 2 channels were more than enough, along come 2 more to throw a massive spanner in the works, and at the same time create an all new way to make people want to chuck away their last expensive shiny just so they can hang with the cool kids. Yes, the 4 channel gravy train is rampaging through the industry, leaving a 2 channel graveyard in its wake.
Most of the big boys have already put out their own take on the 4 channel controller in the last 12 months. But one notably missing exponent of such things is Numark, who blazed a trail with the eversowonderful NS7. Mindful of how their faithful customers would be knocking down their door for the next scoop of controller goodness, they teased their own future offering at BPM 2010, thus ensuring that their loyal customers would wait, rather than jumping aboard the aforementioned gravy train early just to satisfy their hunger for new tech.
But the Numark NS6 is upon us, and ready to be unleashed to a rather suspecting DJ world. Like a handful of other media outlets, we got an NS6 in pre-launch, and like the good hack that I am, I've given it a thorough beating to see how well it holds up to all styles of DJing.
In A Nutshell
The Numark NS6 is an all-in-one Serato ITCH based digital controller. Sporting 4 channels, it has effects built in (so no extra ITCH box to buy later) and can handle analogue inputs too. As you can plainly see, you get 2 jog wheels, with access to all 4 channels via the layer buttons. Out of the box, it comes with ITCH v1.8.1 – named ITCH for Numark NS6, but should also have support for Traktor and Virtual DJ on release day.
What set the NS7 apart from the competition was the stellar build, and that's been carried on to the NS6. Whereas other controllers feature a lot of plastic, the NS6 is mainly metal. The entire chassis is metal – an anodised base with a brushed top plate. It's also a single piece faceplate, so unlike the NS7 it appears to be a single unit rather than a narrow mixer surrounded by V7s.This dear reader is about as far away from "toy" as a controller gets.
There have been changes in the detail though. Numark are renowned for rubber buttons. But after extensive research and listening to user feedback, these have been eradicated on the NS6, and replaced with hard plastic ones. More or less every control on the NS7 had a hard plastic frame around it as well as custom moulded buttons. The NS6 however whilst being simplified, and having harder buttons, feels good. The click is solid and the lights are bright. Some may prefer the rubber type, especially if repeated button bashing is your game, but I like these just fine.
Otherwise, the controls are all pretty solid. Pitch faders are often an afterthought but these are better than other controllers. I do however wish that the movement exhibited by the plastic posts could have eliminated by putting metal pots in there. Numark tell me that these are tried and tested on other products in their range so I imagine that they'll be just fine.
Physically, it falls somewhere in-between its nearest rivals – smaller in all ways than the Pioneer DDJ-T1, bigger than the Denon MC-6000 and similar to the NI Kontrol S4. Weight wise however, it's a bit of a bloater, with the S4 being the lightest at 7.5lb and the NS6 being nearly twice as heavy at 14lb. That said, you only have to look at the construction to see the difference.
So overall, the NS6 is a beast – a smaller and lighter beast than the NS7, but a beast nonetheless. But if you plan to travel a lot with it, it just too big for hand baggage, so it's in the hold for the NS6, right next to the DDJ-T1, while the Denon and NI units sits happily in the cabin.
Note to Numark – 6 big rubber feet only aids stability on the flattest of work surfaces. My advice to people is to take the middle ones off.
Now, let's pull the NS6 apart, bit by bit into its key areas.
The Analogue Mixer
First off, it's worth stating here that the NS6 is as much an analogue mixer as it is a controller. You can plug phono and line level into the middle 2 channels and line/mic sources into the outer 2 channels. And all this can be done without ITCH running or your laptop plugged in too, and the EQs and fader curves operate independently of ITCH. You cannot however use ITCH's effects on analogue sources.
This means that you have many options available to you. For example, I tested running Scratch Live with the SL3 though it (you always need Rane hardware to run SSL), and I could switch between ITCH, SSL and regular analogue without a hitch. It means you have to run SSL and ITCH at the same time, but given the relatively low footprint of both, it should be manageable to most users.
This is especially useful for existing SSL users who want to add a controller to their existing setup, as ITCH and SSL share the same library. So because ITCH doesn't need an SL box, it's simply a matter of taking the NS6 out, and leaving their decks and SL interface at home. I'd say that as long as you use a separate audio interface, you can run any DVS through the NS6. It is after all a mixer too.
It also means that should your laptop crash, you have a number of analogue options open to you. So rather than having to pray that the crowd doesn't hang you for more than a few seconds silence, you can funnel that backup iPod of CDJ that might be hanging around through the NS6. Disaster recovery made easy.
The Digital Mixer
At its core, the 4 channel mixer section does exactly what it's supposed to without trying to be too clever. It's compact, but with plenty of space to manoeuvre between channels. The knobs are rubberised with a smooth but stiff action – not sticky stiff, but they'll stay where you put them rather than move if brushed against. And where necessary they have a solid centre detent.
One thing about layout. Unlike 4 channel mixers, the NS6 designates the middle 2 channels as 1 and 2, with 3 and 4 being the outer channels and carrying red markings on the faceplate. I suspect that because the majority of users will focus on 1 and 2, this has been centralised, and even if external decks are used, this 3/1/2/4 layout makes the most sense. This is also mimicked in the ITCH layout too.
Below this are the channel switches. These switch between line/phono or line/mic and "PC" channels – essentially analogue or ITCH. In tests, there is the tiniest of audible clicks in your audio chain when using the switch, but only when you listen hard. So if you wanted to get clever with doubles in analogue and digital, then it should be smooth.
Then we come to the cue buttons. Bright and shiny, you can cue one at a time, and listen to them via a cue/master control. Thankfully in the potentially complex soundscape being weaved across 4 channels, Numark saw fit to include a split cue, something that I think is pretty near essential on 4 channel units.
The NS6 comes with 3 band EQ with gains, that operate from kill to either 6 or 12dB – it's a software switch in ITCH. It's a highly pleasing range that sounds great with the 3 EQs doing a safe amount of work without pushing their ranges too hard.
Sound-wise, the NS6 is really good. It's a 24 bit interface but the sample rate is just 44.1kHz. For those who like high numbers, the magic 96 is missing. But not being one for numbers, and rather more being about how something feels or sounds, especially when it comes to sound. So if I were to describe it, I'd say that the NS6 exhibits a loud sound with a generous bottom and and bright highs, but importantly exhibits no digitalness whatsoever. Numark have always been good in this area to my ears and the NS6 continues to please them.
Now let's tackle the somewhat thorny subject of meters. I say thorny because it seems to have been the one thing that people have been quite vocal about online. Being a 4 channel unit, DJs migrating from a 4 channel mixer are used to having a meter for each channel plus a master meter. The Allen & Heath xone:dx for example has peak LEDs to tell you when things are getting a little lively – but the NS6 has none at all. It only has master meters (11 part Red LEDs with the top 2 telling you to turn stuff down) and for some this is a step too far. Or not enough as it were.
I however am somewhat more comfortable than most, as I've used mixers for years that have only had master meters. That said, I'm long in the tooth, whereas the newer generation of DJs, especially those who are used to make more control over sound or come from a 4 channel background have every right to feel a little short changed. I guess you'll be learning about levels the hard way and just making sure that the master doesn't get too loud.
To help with this, there is a software limiter that kicks into play when things do get out of hand. It shows you on screen like a peak meter, but automatically keeps the volumes from maxing out the White LEDs all the time. The headroom setting in ITCH determines when the limiter kicks in.
IDEA: Perhaps ITCH could get some onscreen meters, even if it's just a green, amber and red light. And make it an option as well as 4 channels takes up a lot of screen space.
The Faders
Controllers are about making the best use of a small space. You simply cannot squeeze a full sized 4 channel mixer into a portable unit, thus Numark have optimised the line fader section by using 60mm faders, but only giving them a visible 45mm throw. Given that Pioneer own the club scene with their 45mm throw line faders on the majority of their mixers, a lot of users will be perfectly happy with this. If you're migrating from a mixer with 60mm throw faders however (and the list is quite long), you need to work out if this is compatible with your established styles. I suspect that most people won't care that much.
Given the sheer number of screws in this unit, I wasn't about to break out the skratchdriver to pull this NS6 apart to find out what type, but I suspect a quality of short bodied alphas. They're certainly smooth enough for anyone.
The cross is a Numark D-Type – their mid-range fader but retooled to fit the constricted space. Feels good and has a 1.5mm lag distance, so more than good enough for the clicktastic techniques out there – although I'm told a revised faderplate will be available soon that will cut this down to a stupidly small distance. And I'm not the biggest fan of the faceplate fixing either as my fingers rubbed against the screws when scratching. But a CP-Pro would have been better given the premium nature of the NS6, but apparently there wasn't enough room. And before you ask – the Innofader doesn't fit either. The slot is big enough, and the connector is catered for in the Innofader kit, but the NS6 just isn't deep enough. And there's no room for the Innobender kit to work either. If you absolutely must have the Innofader, you'll be cutting a hole in the NS6 baseplate and almost certainly screwing any warranty you had. Or adding washers under the faderplate and putting up with a sharp edge. Disappointing.
As far as other fader controls go – the line faders have a software curve control in ITCH, from a tight scratch curve with 2mm lag to a slight extended linear curve. Sadly no reverses on the line faders though – perhaps software could do this. And in analogue mode i.e. no computer attached, these curves are strictly linear. The crossfader gets a tradition sharp to linear curve control, and reverse is handled by the crossfader assign controls.
Now we come to crossfader functions in a little more detail. As mentioned, you can assign channels to particular sides of the crossfader, depending on your preferences. You can assign each channel to either side of the crossfader or simply leave it in the middle to play through unhindered. I guess it depends on how you play and what you have plugged in as to how you use them.
A long standing feature in many pieces of DJ gear has been fader start. Usually enabled by a separate mini-jack cable, this feature really becomes an incredibly useful creative feature in a controller. And with 4 channels all synced together, it's an all new world of slam mixing synced pitch control heaven. I absolutely loved this on the NS7 and love it even more on the NS6.
So… a mixed bag in the fader department for me. So if you're fader-centric, read this section again. But the fader start feature is an absolute winner in all-in-one units like this.
The Deck
Here, I'm talking about the bit either side of the mixer section. The NS6 carries on with the same symmetrical layout that the NS7 had. Some like it, others don't. But you soon get used to it. It breaks down into key areas that deserve special detailing so here goes:
The Jog Wheel
The key draw of the NS7 was the 7″ direct drive motor. So you can imagine how people felt when Numark announced a 4 channel jog wheel unit instead. But when squishing full sized units into a compact case, you can't have everything. And when you consider that the target market for a 4 channel unit isn't a scratch happy turntablist, it's easy to see how the direct drive platters were left out.
The 6″ jog wheel is a silvery lump of metal and plastic. I like many others lament the colour decision and wish it had been Black. It conforms to the usual metaphor of the top being touch sensitive with a plastic edge that can be used for pitch bending, or at the press of a scratch button, the whole wheel becomes a pitch bender. There's also a LED ring around the edge of the jog wheel – white for decks 1/2 and red for 3/4 that roughly represents playback speed – either 33 or 45 depending on your ITCH preference. To be honest, I find to be nothing more than decoration, but does give you a visual guide for deck focus.
But what does it scratch like? Well it's no NS7, but the NS6 puts in a solid performance given the touch sensitive nature. Obviously, turntablists aren't going to pull off the finer points of vinyl sensitive techniques, and for juggling it's a matter of looking at the screen or using cue points. But for Hip Hop DJs, techniques beyond the basics are very doable. I did however have to slightly adapt my timing for the NS6 when comparing side by side with Scratch Live. Spinbacks however are perfect. They sound totally natural and suffer no buffering issues at all. Indeed, I backcued at speed through an entire 4 minute track without a single skip.
I'll mention sound quality again here – the actually accuracy of the NS6 is amazing. It has 3600 clicks per revolution, and this can be heard when dragging back slowly – there's no digital breakup at all. And I detected no drift either, but on this unit that's not so important as the wheel position isn't absolute.
Interesting line from the manual when describing the jog wheel – "this motorized platter"… probably a typo but oh how we wish that had been the case.
A few platter related items to cover off. The NS6 offers the usual reverse feature – press the button and it plays in reverse, but press shift reverse and it's a censor feature that carries on playing and pics up where it should when you release it. The simulated platter speed can also be switched between 33 and 45, and can also simulate spin and up braking speeds too.
In these days of auto sync, you'd think that pitch controls would be increasingly redundant. But no – auto or manual, you still need pitch in one way or another.
The NS6 features a solid 100mm pitch fader that has enough tension to stay put, but won't move if nudged accidentally. ITCH offers pitch ranges of 8, 16 and 50% with somewhat rough resolutions of 0.02, 0.04 and 0.1%. I say rough as it can vary by a little bit. There's also pitch bend that shifts by a seemingly infinite amount, but still offers good nudge control if you've yet to succumb to auto sync.
A note about pitch takeover – when using 4 channels with just 2 pitch faders, confusion can reign when dealing with pitch differences. So Numark have added takeover LEDs to the pitch, so that when swapping layers, an arrow will come on showing which direction to move the pitch fader to get the setting back to where it was. Very clever.
Speaking of which, auto sync is allegedly the devil's own DJ scene destroying function. Accepted by most as a "use it or don't" feature, this makes beat matching simple. Pressing the sync button on one deck makes the BPM match to the others. If you've got beat grids enabled, it'll match those. But if not, it'll match the transient beats. Given the possible hit and miss nature of beat grids, I find sync works better with grids off. It doesn't always hit the right transient, at which point pressing sync a few times will eventually make it match.
Finally we have master tempo. No surprises here – pressing the button fixes the key while the pitch is moved. Traditionally, this words better for speeding up, but ITCH gives you a safe maximum range of 16%.
Strip or Skip?
The NS7 saw the introduction of the hilariously named strip search. This touch sensitive strip lets you navigate the entire length of the track and drop in at any point. The NS6 strip search search has been improved with LEDs that indicate the approximate location in the track.
It works fine, but I prefer the new skip function. Pressing the skip button and moving the jog wheel moves the track in single bar increments, bang on beat as well. So not only do you get to jump around your track at speed, but it also provides you with another creative tool.
IDEA: Perhaps shift/skip could be enabled to engage it fully so that some 2 handed creativity could be used.
Hot Cues and Loops
When writing these reviews, the same things pop up over and over – especially in Numark reviews. And this is oh so true of these 2 functions. So not wishing to sound like a broken record, let's skim over these in outline form.
Looping works in 2 ways – auto and manual. Assuming the BPM is calculated correctly, auto loop will engage to the correct beat and loop depending on the buttons you press. You can expand the loop up to 8 beats or crunch it down to 1/32nd beats i.e. a buzzing noise, as well as shift the loop up or down your track. Using the ever useful shift key gives you loop rolling i.e. momentarily looping and reengaging at the right place when you release. Looping is exactly what you would expect and works perfectly. And the loops are automatically saved to ITCH and there when you need them too.
The same goes for hot cues. You can define them in ITCH in offline mode, or define them as you play. You get 5 to play with and are defined as simply as pressing the correct cue button. Deleting is a matter of shift cue button, thus clearing the cue and making it available again. The cues also act as stutters when the jog wheel isn't playing. See – it's all rather straightforward and works perfectly every time.
Beat Grids
Something that has slowly leached its way into the DJ scene without so much as a fanfare is beat gridding. Maybe because like auto sync it's seen as cheating, but it has nonetheless become a relatively standard feature in many products. Essentially it's an advancement on BPM, and deals with beats and bars. Now beats aren't too hard to work out, but there's quite a bit more that goes into accurate beat gridding.
Here's what happens – ITCH analyses the track, works out the BPM and does it's best attempt to apply a beat grid. On tracks that maintain a solid structure and fixed BPM, this works really well. But some tracks need work, that maybe as little as defining the first bar, or even stretching a beat grid locally on tracks with an uneven beat. The NS6 give you these tools locally to do pretty much all the beat gridding adjustment and fixes that you want.
There's still no quick fix or perfect beat gridding solution, but ITCH and the NS6 do give you the tools to make beat gridding easier to handle.You can do it on the fly of course, but if it were me, I'd be prepared to put some time aside to perfect your beat grids.
Or you can totally ignore them, as they can be turned off in preferences. The choice is yours.
Track Navigation
The one key thing that I fell in love with about ITCH was how it focussed my attention on my DJ gear rather than playing with my keyboard. And this extends to loading tracks too, and the NS6 has all the controls necessary to make dropping the right track into the right channel really simple.
The scroll knob does a lot – not only does it scroll lists of tracks but pressing it switches between panels. The important buttons are the Load ones. These insert the tracks into the channels… to be honest, it's all totally explanatory and doesn't need further detailing. All you need to know is that loading tracks is simple and works.
Another issue that some people have with ITCH units is that enabling effects can mean another hardware purchase. The NS7 needed the NSFX and the VCI-300 needed the VFX-1. The NS6 however has effects built in so no extra luggage or USB ports needed.
You can apply 2 effects at once, to any channel or to the master. But only 2 effects at a time, so that's 2 effects on one channel, one effect on a channel and one on the master etc. Each effect has a wet/dry fader as well as a single parameter knob, the designation of which depends on the effect.
ITCH gives the NS6 12 effects – delay, echo, reverb, LPF, HPF, phaser, flanger, tremolo, repeater, reverser, braker and crusher. They've all been seen before and your skill set will determine how well they sound. I suggest much messing around with them to see what works and to come up with some crazy combos too.
The great news is that they're all post fader, be it line or channel. Being an all in one, it's nothing less than you'd expect really.
REALLY HANDY TIP: Owners of Vestax's VFX-1 can hook it up to the NS6 and get extra effects functionality. So if you're trading up from a VCI-300, it might be worth hanging onto the VFX-1 – if you own one that is. I don't know if it's officially supported but worked just fine in the v1.8125 release of ITCH.
Ins and Outs
Having established earlier on that the NS6 is a highly capable analogue mixer in its own right, let's have a look at the actual connections. All channels have line level RCA inputs, with channels 1 and 2 being line/phono switchable. 3 and 4 are line/mic switchable with additional mic ports. There's also a grounding post for those who want to link up their decks.
Outputs are very well serviced. Master output is via balanced XLR (which apparently you can thank me for insisting on their inclusion), as well as unbalanced RCAs. The most interesting output for many will be booth out – something that the DDJ-T1 and Kontrol S4 lack, much to the annoyance of end users. And for the record, this controller isn't USB powered so expect to take the supplied wall wart everywhere. Don't worry – it's pretty small.
It obviously goes without saying that you get master and booth volume controls. But if I didn't say it, someone would only ask.
ITCH v1.8
Being a new ITCH controller, the software has been suitably updated to enable full ITCH functionality. Although we've walked this path many times before, let's take a skim through ITCH and how it works.
ITCH is to controllers what Scratch Live is to turntables. It is the beating heart of the hardware, and it can be said that ITCH drives the hardware, rather than the hardware controlling ITCH.
It works in the familiar metaphor of having a library of music, organised in crates and subcrates, but also having the additional functionality of smartcrates, where a crate can automatically contain tracks based on a number of predefined parameters.
To prepare your tracks, ITCH works better in offline mode i.e. without hardware plugged in as you get a full screen with which to analyse and organise your tracks. Once your tracks have been analysed i.e. BPM, beat grid and waveforms created, you can set about sorting them however you want, and can predefine loops and cues rather than having to do all this while DJing. So you can do the important prep work wherever you are, even if it's the other side of the world from your gear.
Once your library is all sorted (although you can just go at the NS6 with raw unorganised files), using the navigation controls becomes second nature as you zip around windows and crates with ease. Loading tracks is really easy, but you do have a few tricks in the preferences for good measure – things like playing tracks immediately when loaded and setting the play point to be from the first cue point are pretty handy.
While ITCH is very similar to SSL in looks, the layout is a little different, but still similar enough that you'll feel at home if you're transferring. And of course, ITCH shares the same library as SSL so changes made in one are reflected in the other. You do get some options as far as layout goes – waveforms can be viewed on the left, right or on the bottom. Having 4 decks does make things a little cramped, even on my 15″ screen, but I personally prefer the waveforms at the side, leaving more space for my library. ITCH v2 will feature SSL like views, but for those users who won't use 4 decks, being able to switch them off completely would be a very good idea.
From my own point of view, the detail of ITCH is not as important as what it achieves. Instead of being focussed on my laptop, the screen is little more than a big library, with all the work being done on the NS6. And the 1 to 1 mapping symbiosis works perfectly. I know many controller users feel handcuffed by the closed nature of ITCH, but this is also its strength. Which leads me rather neatly onto…
Other MIDI Applications
One of the issues with making controllers acceptable to the masses is with the accuracy of the jog wheel. The NS7 and V7 absolutely nail the feel in ITCH, but translating that to Traktor for example has proved to be harder than most might expect. So when Numark announced that the NS6 would not only have full ITCH support, but also have Traktor and Virtual DJ support on day one of release (today as it happens). Numark have made the Traktor mappings independently of Native Instruments, and the Virtual DJ mappings come straight from Atomix.
Now I'm going to get something off my chest right here. Part of the reason that I love ITCH is because it is true plug and play protocol. There's zero configuration and it just works. The same is true with NI's Kontrol range within Traktorworld as well, so you can imagine how increasingly wearing it is to have to load TSI files and configure this option and select that option to get stuff to work. And heaven forbid if you have to go through the process of MIDI learn to make your controller do things that supplied files don't do.
But such is the way of competitive implementations of proprietary protocols. And while buttons, knobs and faders are all pretty standard, it's always the jog wheels and platters that let the side down when trying to map to other software. And this is the case with the NS6 too. Another thing that ITCH has over any other software is post fader effects, which for me is a bit of a deal breaker. This alone would keep me in ITCH.
Taking the Traktor mappings first – Traktor 1 and 2 are catered for, with a separate 4 deck and sample deck maps for Traktor 2. Obviously having 4 decks means a pretty complete map of the main functions, as well as compromises on mapping Traktor specific features to spare buttons, or just having to leave them off completely. For example, things like strip search became a filter. And while jog wheel response was good enough for mixing, I was only happy doing the very basics of scratch techniques. Traktor is known for complex effects, but due to a lack of buttons, only a limited feature set has been mapped. And switching between PC and line/phono had no effect – both play through each other. It's at times like this when you realise why NI made a Traktor specific controller.
Virtual DJ gave me solid results too, and also offered the extra dimension of video mixing. Overall, I would say that I was much happier with the VDJ mapping, and when some smart user decides to make an NS6 skin, this is going to be a pretty tight user experience, and will certainly give people unhappy with ITCH an alternative.
In ITCH, everything works perfectly – controls do exactly what they're supposed to and do it it ultra-tightly. And these MIDI maps in comparison feel like a compromise. But obviously each bit of software does things in different ways, so mapping controls to features in alien software is probably a matter of personal preference than anything. So I would take the available mappings as a starting point – something for the experienced mappers and MIDI geeks to get busy with and make better. These do work and work pretty well, and I feel that they'll get better very quickly. And hopefully all kinds of different maps will become available to suit different uses, as well as expanding into other software like Mixvibes Cross, Avid's Torq 2.0 and open source applications like MIXXX.
Summing Up
The anticipation surrounding the NS6 has been high. The hype has impacted even on the look and feel of skratchworx, with Numark buying a serious amount of ad space to promote a product that they obviously have a lot riding on. But have they pulled it off despite being late to the 4 channel party?
Indeed they have. Many wanted a 4 deck NS7, and for the most part that's what Numark have delivered plus effects and a full on analogue mixer being built in. You have to remember that the 4 channel market is already established and based upon people NOT using turntables or indeed even requiring any kind of wheel at all. Thus including a jog wheel is the best compromise, and it allows for a smaller size, radically reduced weight and subsequent competitive pricing.
What you get is generous scoops of the important bits of key markets, all neatly squeezed into a solid beast of a controller. It's interesting to see this market develop without an established blueprint. Each manufacturer is doing their own thing and putting their own twist on what they feel the market needs.
But there are compromises on some of the finer points of each target market. The lack of channel meters is proving to be a deal breaker for many who are used to them. The slightly under specced fader setup and lack of motorised platter won't endear the NS6 to turntablists either. But these are niggles more than faults – some of which could be fixed with software and firmware revisions.
What Numark have delivered with the NS6 is a unit that takes the key ingredients of a diverse range of genres and ticks the vast majority of potential buyer's boxes with a big fat marker pen. 4 oh so trendy channels, a dollop of effects, advanced looping and hot cues, a full analogue mixer and various flavours of software support. Given that all of these 4 channel units are quite new, it's a tough call as to which is best (something I know you all want me to state), especially as they're all a little different. But I do find myself really liking the NS6 because of the true plug and play nature, wide software support on day one and stellar build quality. The build alone raises the NS6 above the usual toy criticism admirably. And having glimpsed the future with ITCH v2, the potential for further greatness is just around the corner.
Well done Numark – the NS6 was worth waiting for.
Build Quality
In a sea of plastic controllers, the NS6 stands out as a tank. Large and comparitively heavy, but there's nothing toylike about this at all.
Sound Quality
Everything sounds good these days. But the NS6 impresses me with its high resolution platter that offers vinyl-like drags. And the audio is near impossible to distort thanks to the built-in limiter.
Features and Implementation
It's analogue and digital, and works with all major DJ software out of the box. And everything works really well. Can't knock that at all.
Value For Money
The NS6 sits happily in the same price bracket as its peers, but arguably does more and has a superior build. So I'd say value is high.
The Bottom Line
The Numark NS6 has something for everyone – a real jack of all trades yet master of many that does everything well and has a lot to set itself apart from its competitors. This could be the ideal bridge between analogue and digital needs.
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It may have been too good to be true. After first committing to an incredibly ambitious adaptation of Stephen King's series The Dark Tower that spanned three films and two seasons of a TV show, Universal put the brakes on the project asking director Ron Howard, producer Brian Grazer and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman to scale the project down to make for a more feasible budget. The summer start date was pushed back to early next year while everyone involved worked to bring the budget down.
Well now it looks like the new version of the adaptation wasn't scaled-down enough, as Universal has passed on financing the ambitious undertaking. Hit the jump for the details.
Howard and Co. were ready to go with Javier Bardem attached to play the lead and Battlestar Galactica writer/producer Mark Verheiden onboard to co-write the TV series, but Deadline reports that Universal just couldn't commit to the current budget. After receiving the scripts for the first film and the first season of the TV series, the report states that Universal agreed to finance the film but would not commit to the TV series.
The adaptation was pretty much unparalleled, with Bardem set to star in the three films and the second season of the TV series (the first season would have been a flashback of the characters of the first film, with a younger actor taking on Bardem's role). It was definitely a stretch, especially seeing as how Universal had just passed on Guillermo del Toro's $150 million R-rated adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness (and that's with James Cameron and Tom Cruise onboard).
Howard recently committed to directing the Formula 1 racing drama Rush, which is scheduled to start production later this year, but many had hoped that this just meant the production of The Dark Tower would be pushed back a few months, though it now appears that Howard saw the writing on the wall.
Just because Universal passed doesn't mean the project is dead, as the report claims that Warner Bros. is a possible landing place (they're on the hunt for a new franchise with the conclusion of Harry Potter), but a project this size is a major gamble given that the property isn't exactly a largely known commodity (not to mention the fact that it blends the genres of Western and sci-fi).
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It is looking more and more like the Baseball team in Tampa that we call the Tampa Bay Devil Rays… or Rays… or D-Rays is preparing for a name change. It would be the first major league baseball team to change their name without moving since the Houston Colt 45s in 1965 became the Astros. Of course, that is, if you don't count the name change by the Anaheim Angels to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Which brings us to our point. What will the new name be? Some suggestions have included dropping the "Devil" and simply calling the team the Rays. Others have suggested a completely new identity to go along with the new outlook and new ownership of the team, including the Tarpons, which was the name of the longtime minor league team in Tampa. Personally, we are fond of the Tiger Sharks or T-Sharks. However, one of the other points of contention is the "Tampa Bay" part of the name. The Tampa Bay sports franchises are named for a body of water and of the few in the four major sports to NOT be named directly for a city or a state. The others are the Golden State Warriors, who are named indirectly for the state of California, The New England Patriots, and the schitzophrenic Angels, who are named for two cities. The options include changing the name to Tampa, which is unlikely as long as the team plays in St. Pete. Changing the name to St. Pete is also unlikely as St. Pete is not as recognizable as Tampa on the national scene. Also the Buccaneers are now a successful NFL franchise and it is in the best interest for the Rays ,or whatever their name will be, to continue to associate with that success by maintaining the moniker Tampa Bay.
There is one other option. The oranization could follow the lead of the Angels and most politicians and try to make everyone happy. It would also could be fun to honor the team's most famous season ticket holder, Dick Vitale….We present THE TAMPA BAY DEVIL RAYS OF ST. PETERSBURG NEAR TAMPA, BABY!….Alas, this name, like most politicians while trying to make everyone happy, will succeed only in pissing everyone off.
Devil Rays may play name change [St. Pete Times]


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