track titles & vinyl sleeves artwork

first of all, let me say that i am a digital child. i learned to beatmatch on an all-in-one numark console with cd-rs and i had some vinyl experience, but i'm mainly a traktor kid.

now to the point - i have been struggling lately with remembering track titles / artists / remixes. even though i had little experience with this, i find it much easier to remember a tune using a visual picture - i.e. a record sleeve! i recently read an interview with Sasha in which he said the same thing, that he never used to remember track names, just sleeves, but with ableton it's such a headfuck and he needs to be really organized.

does anyone else think this would be useful? what would be a good way to do this in traktor (like have a separate area on the screen for artwork)?

some weeks ago i read THIS in the ni froum! maybe this could help u.

I think this is a great idea. The best way, I'd think, would be to integrate something like what iTunes has so you can scroll through the artwork and then pick it to see the tracks. Unfortunately that would take up a LOT of video memory

I am still thinking of installing that one too.

Anyone here already installed it?

oj excuse me the THIS was a link. don´t know if u noticed so here again the link:
trakker-software hehe....

So, has anybody on the boards used TRAKKER before? I'm going to download it right now, but I'm just curious if anybody has anything to say about it.

i read about trakker in the german native instruments froum. i don´t use it for myself cause i fine with the normal traktor explorer. the only thing is, that u can´t prelisten a track like in the traktor explorer. u have to drop the song in deck a,b,c,d for prelistening, but i think thats okay.

The prelistening is annoying to me anyway, so I can do without it. :D

Yeah ive ditched the preview too, never use it.

I tried to install trakker but had problems with java so didn't bother with it much more. But now that i think about it, it might actually be quite good for my current setup hmm. I could use traktor window only for decks, trakker for browser and ableton for mixing part.

Maybe I have to give it some more try. :P

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Originally Posted by amadora

So, has anybody on the boards used TRAKKER before? I'm going to download it right now, but I'm just curious if anybody has anything to say about it.

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Yeah, is it stable, fast? I don't have good experiences with java programs.

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Originally Posted by tekki

The prelistening is annoying to me anyway, so I can do without it. :D

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Meh, loading a track to prelisten is the same as loading to a deck. However, in a deck i can sync, jump beats, lock key. deck > prelisten

Why preview it, if you're already cue-ing it?

That's my annoying two cents basically.

I never preview tracks. In fact, one time my preview button on my VCI-100 stopped working in a gig (i probably just did something wrong) and the track was stuck there the whole night. It was annoying.

I'm probably gonna remap it to the "make my mixes sound better" function, or something.

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Originally Posted by DvlsAdvct

I'm probably gonna remap it to the "make my mixes sound better" function, or something.

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where do i find that one? will it pick and buy good tracks for me?

Next to the limiters and compressors. :D

If you want it all three, buy a BCR2000. ;)

whiskers, don't listen to Tekki. If you really want to shine you just put a piece of tape over any knob or dial on any midi controller that says "Awesome". You do not turn that knob. You make someone else turn that knob. If mixerman taught me anything, they will suddenly think your mixes are getting more and more awesome.

Don't let them overdo it, though. Too much awesome could cause some serious damage to your standards.

It's kinda like Tekki thinks his BCR is awesome. He's turned that "Awesome" knob so many times it's broken his perception of what awesome really is.

d00ds, that already happened when I picked the BCR and opened the box.

You all went into jealousy mode. ;)

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It's kinda like Tekki thinks his BCR is awesome. He's turned that "Awesome" knob so many times it's broken his perception of what awesome really is.

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Lolz im so with you

Btw everyone needs a knob or button assigned to soundgoodizer, turn up for phat sound its that easy !

Bah.. Don't want my Controller to become Fruity Bento. ;)

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Bah.. Don't want my Controller to become Fruity Bento. ;)

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Its not fruiting, its goodizing

how's about a "Goodalizer" button? Whenever you hit it it "goodalizes" your mix. But you have to be careful if you're going to use it every time. You might end up relying on the "goodalizer"

Mr. Goodbar? :eek:

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how's about a "Goodalizer" button? Whenever you hit it it "goodalizes" your mix. But you have to be careful if you're going to use it every time. You might end up relying on the "goodalizer"

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i want one that goes up to 11!

Because it just goes louder... :D (Love that movie!)