Do you want to grab a loop from a deck and keep it running without using 4 decks? Have you ever thought about sampling a beat juggle live in Traktor Pro? Then you sir need to get up to speed with the one click sampling trick we discovered a few months back. Check out the video bellow that walks you through how it is done on our VCI-100 mapping. Then to learn how you to set this up your self, read on after the break.
When I first started experimenting with cue point juggling last year it was a blast but playing the same sample a million times can get a little stale. This led me to explore various ways of working with cue points and FX to create a richer palette of sounds. The results of that exploration became a new concept that could be called cue point chords. The fundamental idea is very simple but can be applied to a wide range of samples for amazing results. Check out the video above for a demo and read on for the technical stuff.
The NanoPAD by Korg is an easy choice for extra midi control with its compact form and low price. Lately, with lots of performance videos popping up its seems just about everyone has picked up a nano pad or 2!
The only limitation of the NanoPad, besides its slightly shoddy construction which tends to break is that there are only 2 virtual knobs. This little modification is useful for everyone that would like to get more analogue control out of the pad. By using Bome’s midi translator and the free files bellow, you can enhance the abilities of the touch-pad and instead control 26 knobs with scene set 3 and another 26 with scene set 4.
About 9 years ago I spent 12 months and a lot of money attending audio engineering school. Although it didn’t lead to recording bands, learning the basics of soldering has been very useful as a dj. Fortunatly, you don’t need to spend $40k on an education to learn soldering, just read on after the break and we will take you through the basics. But why in the world is this impotant to djs? Well here are just few good thing you will be able to do:
Only forward thinking users with gigantic imaginations would ever come up with ideas like this. The manufactures just have too much at stake go out on a limb and create a product like the Korg Kaosilator guitar. Vestax and the controller one was an interesting exception, one which never did well commercially but was a remarkable achievement in creativity.
Instead of coming from Korg, this next level toy interface comes from a user named James Haskin who has written a how to tutorial on instructables.com Check out his video bellow where he shows the machine in action.
One of the users in our rapidly expanding forum has made this wonderfully fun arcade controller and shared some info on how you can do it yourself. Inspired by the Monome and Ean’s original arcade button mod, King Vitamin set upon a journey to create a unique controller for his live ableton sets. The result is a great example in DIY controllerism that you could easily adopt into your own concepts. Lets dive in and take a closer look at his controller, the mappings and how you might also do the same thing.
Jump in, drastically twist around the track, grab their attention and pop back the groove perfectly in time. Mix in equal parts but use sparingly.
That’s the recipe for a good effect technique, something you can use quickly for a little pizzaz that will impress your colleagues and the crowd. There is a youtube video after the break that is a good example of just that kind of a trick. While many of us have been wrapped up in Traktor’s chained fx, some golden nuggets in the advanced FX may have gone un-noticed. One example is a mysterious FR.R button on the ECHO, which appears to have shown up in the latest 1.1 release but then again, I may have never noticed it. One click and you will be hooked, when combined with several other buttons it can create sounds out of thin air!
Its amazing how the simplest of things capture peoples imagination. The Korg Nano demo that I posted on you tube, featuring an off the cuff remix of we will rock you, is on the way to be one of our top videos. While it was a relatively simple routine I created in a few minutes to show off the nano, many of you have asked what exactly I was doing. Check out the video above for a breakdown and then download the TSI and mp3 files after the break.
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In this post about live loop recording inside traktor I was using a simple technique to re-voice static samples that I called Scratch N Pitch for a lack of a better term. Juggling cue points is a lot of fun but using the same sound over and over again can get really stale, so spice it up with some pitch variations. Scratch N Pitch uses the jog wheel to make big changes in pitch, creating a scratching sound and re-voicing samples up or down an octave. Watch the video above for the full scoop on how to do it yourself.
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