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So i finally took the plunge and decided to go digital. After having to leave my decks and records in the uk a few years ago, I have succumbe to the digital world. After a lot of faffing and some apprehensions about the set up and the annoying problem of getting the damn controller and traktor talking.
On first impressions it’s a tidy piece of kit, weighty and well made. I’ve paired it with Traktor 3 and I have already been working on building up a library of tunes off beatport.
So first things first. I have trawled the internet and for some reason I cant set my pitch fader to +-8% (i've only got 35%, 50% and 100%) Hence its is impossible to utilise the pitch faders (which are too small) for any sort of beat matching. One slight touch and its +- 0.7% pitch. Which basically means mixing is a farce! Anyone know why I havent got the 8% option?
The Jog wheels are well made and weighty. Its nice to have something to knock a mix back into check. But they are completely useless for dropping in tracks and they have limited sensibility. You can catch a beat and hold it, but its impossible to drop it in, and I’ve had to resort to using the cue buttons for dropping in tracks. Winding tracks back as well is all wrong aswell, the wheel has a decvent forward motion but backwards its sluggish. God forbid that by mistake you touch the metal interior of the wheel instead of the glass edge as this pretty stops the track. Which brings me nicely onto Midi Mapping. How do you do it? Do u need a program or is it just code writing?
The cross fader is cheap and plasticky compared to the volume faders which is a shame and the cue and stop buttons are located far too close to it. Hence I’ve managed to stop tracks mid mix.
I’d like some advice of people who already have digital collections. I’m used to flicking through a record box not a bunch of files. A list of tracks is completely faceless, they is no sleeve or rating to help you identify what it is your looking at. Initially I tried to divide the releases into warm up, early set, mid set and peak folders. Whilst keeping them in their seprate release folders. The problem is in traktor it’s a pain going in and out of folders. But putting all the tracks individually in a folder means that finding what you want is a nightmare. How do you guys organise yourselves?
On first impressions it’s a tidy piece of kit, weighty and well made. I’ve paired it with Traktor 3 and I have already been working on building up a library of tunes off beatport.
So first things first. I have trawled the internet and for some reason I cant set my pitch fader to +-8% (i've only got 35%, 50% and 100%) Hence its is impossible to utilise the pitch faders (which are too small) for any sort of beat matching. One slight touch and its +- 0.7% pitch. Which basically means mixing is a farce! Anyone know why I havent got the 8% option?
The Jog wheels are well made and weighty. Its nice to have something to knock a mix back into check. But they are completely useless for dropping in tracks and they have limited sensibility. You can catch a beat and hold it, but its impossible to drop it in, and I’ve had to resort to using the cue buttons for dropping in tracks. Winding tracks back as well is all wrong aswell, the wheel has a decvent forward motion but backwards its sluggish. God forbid that by mistake you touch the metal interior of the wheel instead of the glass edge as this pretty stops the track. Which brings me nicely onto Midi Mapping. How do you do it? Do u need a program or is it just code writing?
The cross fader is cheap and plasticky compared to the volume faders which is a shame and the cue and stop buttons are located far too close to it. Hence I’ve managed to stop tracks mid mix.
I’d like some advice of people who already have digital collections. I’m used to flicking through a record box not a bunch of files. A list of tracks is completely faceless, they is no sleeve or rating to help you identify what it is your looking at. Initially I tried to divide the releases into warm up, early set, mid set and peak folders. Whilst keeping them in their seprate release folders. The problem is in traktor it’s a pain going in and out of folders. But putting all the tracks individually in a folder means that finding what you want is a nightmare. How do you guys organise yourselves?
bollocks
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