Yo gang,
so after djing for about 15 years, playing both vinyl and cds, I'm thinking to make the traktor transition. I've been really interested in its functions and how it can be controlled, especially with that X1 controller. My initial concern however is whether or not the beat grid quantization would cause time locked mixes to sound too stiff. Being primarily a house and techno dj, the need for very subtle control of timing when merging two tracks has always been a very large part of the craft. I would be worried that if traktor were to be taking control of the time alignment that it wouldn't be be able to do it with as much subtlety, thusly making the transitions sound a bit stiff and devoid of pocket.
Of course I could just be using cdj controllers or an independent platter and faders interface, but I've been feeling lately that if the manual beat matching could be put aside, that would allow for a lot more creativity in the transitioning and phrasing.
I'm sure this is something that people have dealt with so it would be nice to hear any perspectives you all might have.
Cheers
Ammon
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