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After playing around with the Twitch and the TP2 mapping a few times, I've decided to stick with Itch.
The Twitch was made for Itch or vice versa and they work flawlessly together.
The TP2 mapping does work but maybe just not how I want my controller to control Traktor. I do think that with extensive mapping and time you could change it work the way you want it too though.
For me I think I'll keep my X1 for Traktor and my Twitch for Itch. ;)
After a month on backorder I finally got my Twitch! My first ever dj controller and i am experincing the feeling that i am sure every dj felt when they got their first peice of dj equipment. Anyways here are some key points about the twitch
-it's build quality, pricing, and mobility is outstanding.
-the traktor mapping does not make use of the twitch's full potential.
-The fader and the volume fader feel just a tiny bit loose for my liking.
I had some trouble mapping the fx because the fx will only work with single fxs and group fx. But this isn't of much concern since i will use a x1 for the fx so it doesn't really affect me much. I hope that the twitch's fx and other unused buttons for perhaps other uses in the future. With a better mapping the twitch would be equally as great with traktor as it is with itch.
How the touchstrips for nudging? I'm intending going for twitch, but hesitating a bit with the touchstrips since I don't grid tracks that much but play with tempo sync.
I use my Twitch with an APC20. This works great for custom mapping of effects. The way Twitch handles the effects section in Traktor would be my biggest criticism of the device so far. I actually find it unusable by comparison to my flexible custom APC layout. Mainly you have to go through so many button presses and knob movements that it's really hard to interact spontaneously with a mix. I think they made a good effort for the first time around at this kind of device. I'm currently in a state of evolution with trying to repurpose the effects section to be more useful to me.
my launchpad twitch style slicer for trakor seems to work ok http://www.djtechtools.com/forum/sho...=22#post383657 and should be possible to use with a twitch too with some config munging.
the latest version of midimasher also has some "bomes" style passthru options so in theory it should be possible to use the slicer emulation code and just pass any other twitch midi direct to traktor so u can still use your current tsi etc.
not massively tested yet, but seems ok anyway. my launchpad config tries to emulate the two performance areas of the twitch... which will have to do until i can afford to get a real one one day ;)
edit: question to any twitch owners... does the slicer slice continuously thru the track or just loop round one set of 8 beats? reading the doc thats the difference between mode 1 and 2?
still actually considering selling all my shit and picking up a twitch or vci400. Has the recent twtich updates sorted out the sample deck control etc?
What's wrong with sample deck control? Wouldn't that be TSI issue?
im talking about with itch not traktor
i.e i should have typed itch not twitch
I wasn't aware that itch had sample decks :o
i thought itch 2.0 had sample decks and there isn't a controller available that can actually control them yet. Which sounds like a fairly monumental fuck up on serato/itch and its partners part.