Native Instruments Kontrol S4

So what is it.
There's quite a few press releases on this new offering from Native Instruments. So I'm going to cut it right down to the basics.

The new Kontrol S4 is a MIDI controller built and designed by Native Instruments.
It's task is to bring 4 deck control straight to the DJ's fingertips.
4 channels and integrated software control which starts from loading a song to a deck to adding loops, effects and scratching.


After that; things start to get a bit more complicated with the ability to swap your 3rd and 4th decks to 8 sample windows capable of playing up to 48 seconds of audio per sample window.
What one person can do with effectively 10 decks at their disposal could well push the world of DJing into uncharted territory.






Native Instruments have written new Traktor S4 software which works seamlessly with the unit and in the future with bring DVS control into the game. It means that the DJ will be able to add timecoded vinyl or CD to their set for even better control of the audio being played.

For the time being it looks like when the Kontrol S4 is released November 1st 2010, it will most likely be the leading control unit in the field of digital music manipulation for the DJ.
Whether Clubs will see it that way is a different matter. Pioneer is the industry standard but at over 5,000 be it Pounds, Dollars or Euro for a full DJ club setup which many DJs plug into there laptops vs. just €900 for the Kontrol S4; it makes you wonder whether times could be of a changing, should the Kontrol S4 gain a lot of respect from leading DJs such as Dubfire, Carl Cox and Ritchie Hawtin