When Native Instruments released the Kontrol S4 last year it quickly set the standard for all digital controllers that came after. Today the S4 continues to offer a substantial amount of functionality and unmatched integration with the Traktor platform. There are however a few trade-offs, one being the somewhat limited MIDI customization opportunities in the S4 along with hardware omissions such as booth output and a replaceable crossfader. In this article we are going to show you an option for solving the crossfader issue using the Audio Innovate Innofader.
What’s the most searched MIDI controller on Google? The answer might surprise you. It’s not a studio mainstay like the MPC or Trigger Finger. It’s not a relatively new controller or a futuristic, buzz-worthy device. Nope. It’s an unassuming collection of encoders that’s been on the market for the better part of a decade. Is it worthy of a spot in your arsenal of gear? And, if you already own one, how can you make the most of it?
DJ TechTools has long prided itself on our very strong forum community – if you’ve never been there, you should know it’s one of the most valuable resources on the internet for DJs.
Today, we’re proud to announce a new feature article and matching forum, based on the most popular forum thread of all time! “Show Us Your Setup” is the new section, and once a month we’ll choose one lucky reader from those posts to feature on the front page of DJTT. Today, we’ll be looking at DJTT contributor SmiTTTen’s setup! Continue reading Show Off Your Kit, Show Us Your Setup!
DJTT maintains a lively little boutique here on the site that sells carefully curated and crafted DJ gear for the discerning digitalist. Instead of selling cheep gear, our staff prides themselves on helpful customer service and quality equipment that you can count on. Once a year, we do lower the prices and offer some juicy deals to help frugal DJs save a little cash. This year will be our biggest sale ever with a special list of 10 high quality DJ products that are 10-50% off! Continue reading DJ TechTools’ Annual Gear Sale Happening Now
We tend to focus a lot on Traktor in our controllerism articles because of its simpler and more flexible controller mapping capabilities, but there are a fair few hidden – or at least, subtly introduced – features that make controllerism in Scratch Live a lot of fun too. While many “Serato” djs may stick to the basic 1 +1 deck paradigm, there are now a lot of additional tools that allow for tinkering if you are so inclined. Continue reading Getting Creative With Serato Scratch Live
As some of you probably know, Traktor offers the ability to change any of its decks into 4 sample/loop players. What would happen if you switched all 4 decks into loop players? In this article I’m going to explore the concept, and feasibility, of running all four decks in sample mode, allowing for on the fly remixing and building tracks from the ground up in a live situation and trying to push the sample decks into being more than an auxillary tool.
Prior to the release of this year’s well-known DJ Mag Top 100 list, former DJ Mag editor Terry Church published an article detailing the complete failings of the list over the years, suggesting that the internet already has plenty of tools to determine the true popularity of DJs. We decided to take his conclusion to heart, and using stats from social media websites, see who has the biggest following. Continue reading to see the full list and how it stacks up against the much debated DJ Mag top 100. Continue reading The DJ TechTools “Top” 100 DJ List
Sonic boom! After two months of development, the DJ TechTools labs have cooked up a super sweet mapping for the S2 that is sure to blow your socks off. Continue reading for a full demo from the man himself, Mr. Golden. Continue reading Ean Golden’s Custom S2 Mapping Released
Launched today, Zayik is a new website that allows controllerists to design their own MIDI controller within a web interface. The brainchild of a handful of cool smaller music technology companies, Zayik is a fun and simple tool that is great for taking simple ideas for controllers and assembling them. More information, our thoughts, and links after the jump!
Okay, so we know loud music’s cool. Not too loud, of course – there’s no point in putting your eardrums into retirement before your dancing shoes – but how is ‘loud’ actually defined? And is ‘loud’ the only thing we should be concentrating on?
I remember mashing my keyboard to bits when Winamp launched over 15 years ago with its trippy, keyboard controlled graphics. Now projected displays in tandem with DJing are popping up at many headliner shows, and even in bars and smaller clubs. In this article, we’ll look at music visualizers you can use to hypnotize your audience and an introduction to Video DJing (VJ) software for some next level displays. Continue reading Blinded by the Lights: Music Visualizers and VJing
It wasn’t until the spring of 2000 when someone handed me a black and green CD that I experienced a sound that truly confused me. Having spent the previous ten years subsisting on a diet of mostly progressive house and trance, it had become my natural instinct to categorize everything I heard as “club”music” or, well, not. That CD was Progression Sessions 3 and the tune I kept going back to again and again was Blu Mar Ten’s ‘Santur’. 12 years later I am still buying their music and their music is still surprising me. Today we look into what got them there.
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