I feel the same @Mister_Tuur
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Woke up this morning with a flashback. I started out with mapping the BCD2000 in Live ages ago. Lots of stuff wasn’t midi mappable back then, but Bome’s Midi Translator saved the day as it could map keyboard actions, mouse pointer movements, etc. It would also let you implement shift states (e.g. using the jog wheels for scrubbing or library navigation) and blinking leds (not natively supported by the hardware) as it has timers and all kinds of tricks.
2005. Those were the days. 
Ended up ditching the concept regardless as I didn’t like Live’s library and didn’t feel like ripping and gridding all my vinyl.
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I remember DJ Carlo mentioned that he used to use a controller that looks very similar to this.
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I’m guessing this might raise the price a bit, which could mean fewer people are interested. Personally, the LC6000 is pretty good at what it does. You can get one, two, three, or even four, depending on what you need and how much room you have. Even with just one, you can easily manage all four decks.
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I had one of those as well back in the early 2000s. I bought one as there was some sense to the layout from a DJ perspective. Which was a welcome relief as I had been pioneering a Traktor Novation Launchpad combo for a while, but I was getting lost with what button did what.
I only sold the Behringer a few years ago, as it had turned into a sticky mess and I have a lot to thank for that device as it made me realise that I really need controllers with labels and obvious buttons! I do still re-map a little bit (it’s the Traktor hacker still in me), but I’m much happier with a device that is almost 90% already there. Such as the Reloop Mixtour Pro I bought last week.
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Bomes Midi - there’s a blast from the past. I remember breaking apart old joysticks and wiring from the circuit boards inside to arcade buttons and Alps faders. I had this plan of making a 4 channel midi mixer, but then I found the M Audio X Session Pro.
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I had one of those M-Audio X-Session Pros! Used it in combination with the original DIY Midi Fighter and a Midi Fighter Pro.
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No sound card, as I remember.
I still use my Midi Fighter Twister for stems. DJ Tech Tools mapping for it is awesome.
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Still alive and kicking though. And with unlimited functionality these days…
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I think I used MidiJoy as well.
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Yeah I had a Traktor Audio 2
Loved the Audio 8. That’s the one that got me in to DVS and then eventually controllers.
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After being super frustrated with lack of small controllers, I started working on my own! Hoping to be able to launch it as a DIY kit for people to assemble.
This was the first version I made:
Here’s a pic of V2:
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Nice! Thanks for sharing @shmimel. Arduino based? Is that a touch strip or small display?
Its a multitouch capacitive touch strip! Kind of like the ones on the old Traktor controllers, but with gesture support. Currently it is being used for jogging (two finger swipe), nudging for beatmatching (one finger touch on left or right zone), quick seek (3 finger swipe) and tempo adjustment. I have also played around with using it for track selection in the library and it works quite well.
I started out using the Teensy with an Arduino MIDI library, but have since switched over to the RP2040-Zero with some custom firmware to do the USB-MIDI handling.
The dream would be to eventually have it be a touchscreen that could show the waveform, but that’s a ways out and would involve chatting with your software team!
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Very cool! Thanks for sharing this @shmimel
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Cool! I also saw your Reddit post on the gear!
If I have to guess what this box does:
- The 8 pads are cue points (maybe performance pads)
- The 4 knobs at the top are for FX
- The vertical fader on the left is for tempo
- The 4 buttons at the bottom are transport controls like CUE, PLAY, and SYNC
I knew there had to be some crossover between the two communities!
I guess I should have elaborated a bit on what the controls are (I got too excited and forgot to add it to the post haha):
- 8 performance pads
- horizontal slider for perforance pad mode selection (now a deprecated idea)
- 4 knobs are for Lo, Mid, Hi and Filter
- Vertical fader is for volume
- 4 bottom buttons are play, cue, sync and shift
We have been playing around with some alternative ideas for the mode selection, and the next version will not have the horizontal slider.
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Dope! Touchstrip is really innovative I’m in the market for portable single deck controllers,
Am looking for a jog wheel for familiarity but this idea is interesting 
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Yeh man, reading this thread it’s clear there was period where modular single jogwheel controllers were banging from Behringer pl1 to Eks X5 and I think a lot of these came out before Djay pro really hit the market and iOS Djing wasn’t as big as it is.
I think it’s time for a refresh I’ve been looking there really isn’t anything out that is that kind of form factor but with usbc powered, plug and play.
I’m sure there’s a bigger market for modular controllers ?
