Heres the deal. Im currently an ITCH+VCI300 user and I love it (for scratching and mixing alike) but want to very soon upgrade to a timecoded vinyl setup. Id love to go SL3 and scratch live but in reality the SL3 is too pricey for me and i do like traktor pro and experimentation. at this point ive sort of made up my mind to audio4dj and traktor scratch pro on a solo TT + 2 channel scratch mixer of some sort. I was wondering how this works out for anyone else who uses a solo TT and traktor scratch pro for freestyle scratching and the like. i will eventually get a second TT for the sake of beatjuggling and just having a full setup. what’re you’re thoughts guys? how is scratch pro plus single timecode? latency? does it crash often? thanks.
right very true but it seems that traktor being a program that requires a lot of juice has been know to crash more often then say ITCH or SSL simply because the serato software itself creates a lighter load on the cpu.
yeah, it’ll crash if you don’t have a fast enough processor or not a lot of RAM. just check the NI website for the minimum specs you need and make sure you’re pretty well above them, and you should be strayget lol
While I haven’t run traktor with a single TT setup I’ve run it with two vestax pdx TTs since I bought it back when it was just traktor scratch about two years ago. You can see my gear list in my signature for all the info on my comp and all the controllers I use. I am VERY intensive on my CPU running traktor scratch and NI’s Guitar Rig 3 for my effects on the same computer at the same time, with very few crashes… In fact I don’t think I’ve ever had a crash at a time when I was performing, only when I was messing with stuff around the house. As long as you have a decent computer for it you should be just fine.
One thing that will give you an advantage with scratch as well is the 4 decks so you could use your VCI to control the main two and have the TT controlling the third deck for scratch samples only. I’ve run like this at times with my Nanos controlling the main mixing and then had a custom wav file that had all my scratch samples loaded into deck 3 for scratches at anytime, worked very well since I never had to load the samples into the deck when I wanted them. Simply mapped out cue points to my PadKontrol for the third and fourth decks so I could hit a cue and instantly have the sample I wanted on my TT for scratching… Provided my mixer is only 2 channels I get away with a third by using the Aux input as another channel for one of the decks.
Ahh, got ya, well do what I did, grab a few nanos.. they are great for controlling everything you probably did before with the VCI, just no jog wheels or faders, but you’ll have some TTs and a mixer for that now!
yeah i actually watched the DJ Rafik DMC routine on scratch pro and thats what got me to be like hey…theres other shit out theren SSL thanks for the responses guys, last thing i really want to hear from any of you fellow DJTT guys is from my original post, how many of you actually use the solo TT setup and lets say some baby controllers like nano pads for example? do u like it?
Map out the controllers right and you can have easy one button switching of that one table to any deck of Traktor.. Then set the rest of your mapping to control the other decks, could work it without too much hassle really, just some serious time mapping stuff out before you get everything setup like you want it.
I’ve actually got to rework all of mine right now due to the new traktor version getting 4 effects units and my mapping on the beta version acts weird. I’m in the middle of moving to LA from Orlando right now so I might not get it ironed out for a bit, but I plan on doing something like this for my two turntables and the nanopads.
Set the PadKontrol up to switch my TTs and NPs between all decks separately in Traktor, with the x/y pad on that being able to act as an internal crossfader if needed.
The two NanoPads are used for cue points/loops/beat-jumping/playing, loading tracks, and misc controls respectively on the four scenes the nanos are loaded with. Meanwhile with the x/y pad on these is used for effects on whichever deck the nano is controlling
The NanoKontrol will be mainly setup for controls of the four effect units mainly. Though I’m not quite sure how I’m setting that one up yet as the way the effects react and accessibility is key to me on these.
That’s the joy of Traktor, you have so many options. I could honestly see making a setup with pretty much any simple midi controller that could switch the TT to different tracks while controlling another as well… And that’s all you’d need with some innovation in midi mapping. This could be done with pretty much any midi controller, I just like the pads of the Korg products personally, and the x/y pads are just fun! I actually just did my first all digital set about a month ago on just the nanopads and the nanokontrol, wish I could have bought one turntable, I would have had it set up just how you’re wanting.
I you opt for something like this let me know, I’d be glad to help with the midi mapping.
Sounds good. Thanks for all the awesome replies and suggestions. When i go for the upgrade im definately going to try the nanokontrol idea TreTuna ill definately let u know how it comes out and/or hit u up for mapping help if necessary. Much appreciated guys
thanks for the responses guys, last thing i really want to hear from any of you fellow DJTT guys is from my original post, how many of you actually use the solo TT setup and lets say some baby controllers like nano pads for example? do u like it?