Official Novation Twitch Owners Thread(?)

[dookiex]

Shift + Hot Cue to access the sample decks. 1-6 are your samples, 7 and 8 are your sample deck switches. You get 2 sample decks per channel for a total of 24 samples at your disposal. The play modes for the samples are one shots, hold to play, on/off, and all are sync-able. You can load anything you like into the sample slots (as long as it's in a Serato compatible format file). You can use the SP6 like a rudimentary Ableton clip launcher if you like. Just remember, you can't adjust the EQ and filters for individual clips as the clips are locked to the channel so if you EQ the channel or use FX on the channel, it's going to affect everything that is playing out of the channel.

Theoretically, if you set up your samples right, you can pretty much have a drum machine at your disposal all on just the Twitch controller (think of it as a Maschine Mikro or an Akai MPC minus velocity, or Korg nanoPad,etc.).

If you use Ableton anyway, alternatively you can route the Ableton audio back in through the Aux on the Twitch and that acts like a 3rd channel (but no mixer controls apart from just the gain control on the Twitch for Aux input), you can use Itch FX on the Aux independently if you'd like (the audio gets fed in through the Aux, back into Itch, and spit back out through Itch). Just keep in mind that since it's Aux, there's no syncing so you'll have to manually beat match.

[fdawg]

Cheers guys. Can you sample on the fly from either deck a or deck b or can you just play prepared samples

[dookiex]

Cheers guys. Can you sample on the fly from either deck a or deck b or can you just play prepared samples

You have to prep them. I haven't found a on the fly sample recording like you can do with Virtual DJ.

[khemfusion]

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[fdawg]

Hi guys, just wondered if there is any way of using external effects with Itch as the stock ones are pretty bad. What I mean is, for example could you route the audio into abelton (I have seen Bridge but looks a bit ott) and use ableton effects? I presume you can use VST's or plugins with Itch.

[MrPopinjay]

Nope, you can't use any plugins with itch, sorry dood.

[dookiex]

Hi guys, just wondered if there is any way of using external effects with Itch as the stock ones are pretty bad. What I mean is, for example could you route the audio into abelton (I have seen Bridge but looks a bit ott) and use ableton effects? I presume you can use VST's or plugins with Itch.

What you can do is do it via analogue. Route the audio into a mixer with onboard hardware FX and apply the FX via the mixer.

[MrPopinjay]

I wasn't aware you could route separate decks out of separate soundcard outputs in twitch... You sure you can?

[Arbite]

I wasn't aware you could route separate decks out of separate soundcard outputs in twitch... You sure you can?

You can't. But I suppose you could have the booth output in one mixer channel, and the master in the other. Then you could have the booth permanently on cue... therefore outputting the two channels into an external hardware mixer.

[MrPopinjay]

I guess that'd work