Do YOU use your Pitch Faders ?

[tech tool]

the handover is always fun, it's when you see who can actually DJ and who might as well be playing a mix CD. of course, some sly people make a meal out of all the cables during the handover so that they have a moment of silence and they don't have to do any real mixing.....

[BentoSan]

Tap tempo to whoever is playing before you, then pitch bend the master tempo No need for pitch faders, just 3 buttons mapped out on your laptop keyboard will work.

Tap tempo - Master
Pitch bend up - Master
Pitch bend down - Master

Pitch faders are still useful for pitching tricks though

[Jester]

I use them @ 8% if i'm on two decks or b2b with one of the lads. With 4 decks its not viable (for me) tho and also with recording mixes i don't use them either. I do a bit of the old drop the tempo on your last track trick and also for smoothly stepping up the bpm during a break when switching styles.

[Phormula1.8T]

I think i really use them the most when try to pitch samples used as scratch fodder so that they match the beats tempo better or for braking techniques, and sometimes just to avoid being reliant on the screen to put myself more in the habit.

[janzak]

I've been thinking about this as well, I never use the pitch faders on the controller... if I want to adjust the pitch I actually do it with the trackpad on my macbook since I can double click the fader to reset it and I don't have to care about matching the fader on the controller

Using them as volume faders for deck C/D sounds interesting :eek:

[n2hf1st]

I use em... in order:

fader fx
resetting tempo
tempo tricks

have thought about using them as filter controls with xone eq, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

[janzak]

resetting tempo

By holding shift? In that case I've been doing that too, but it seems like a huge waste of faders since you could just map a button for that

[kevinmcdonough]

LOL,

I feel like the odd one out now cos I use mine all the time

I play a lot of different genres and stuff in a night and a huge amount of my stuff cant be beat gridded properly (fluctuations in time etc) so I can probably only press sync for about 50% of my mixes during a night.

The other 50% are done purely beatmatching by ear the old fashioned way, no sync button or tempo counters or master tempo or anything. So yeah I use mine all the time.

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[andrewnhong]

i´m using mine for the fader fx´s a lot (with the vci100 se tsi) and when tracks aren´t in time cause i don´t beatgrid my tracks...so sometimes autosync doesn´t work and i have to sync by ear (what i love to do).

I'm the same way, I don't beatgrid all my tracks (really need to sit down and get through all my tracks and do this!), but I typically use the pitch faders when I have to mix my tracks manually without the sync button.

I also use them to bump up or slow down the bpms when I'm trying to gradually change up the mood of my set (say going from 125 bpm --> 128).

I wonder if there will ever be a day where we'll be hard pressed to find controllers with a dedicated pitch fader. It seems like the days of pitch faders and even jog wheels are fading.

[BradCee]

I never use my pitch faders for pitch fading. I actually need to decide what I want to use them for

i've changed mine to pitch bend, use it for 1) 'hands free' brake effects, the further up i push the faster the brake/wind down and 2) when i crush a loop down as small as it'll go and filter i use it to 'wind up' the sound.
still have the wheels set for this to, but for mixing use, the pitch faders allow me to keep an extra hand free for doing other things with effects and faders etc...