Midi Controller: Novation Twitch a waste of money?
I’m in the market for a new midi controller to upgrade from my Hercules MP3 E2 to something better with a built in soundcard. I really like the Novation Twitch but I’ve been hearing of concerns about the soundcard it comes with having way too low of an output volume. The Twitch is $450 on Amazon.com so that pretty much is the most I want to spend. I’ve done a bunch of research but I’m still unsure.
My question to you guys:
How bad is the sound output and is it a deal breaker?
Any other concerns with the Twitch?
For the $450 price range any other controllers you would recommend instead?
The sound isn’t bad at all. The only issue is if you plug straight into the P.A. system of a club, and even then they can just up the speaker volume. A lot of what I’ve read is the slightly below average sound output, and then you have DJ’s failing to realize they can just turn the volume up on the mixer that you plug the controller into, or change the output via Serato.
The great thing about the twitch is it’s portability. It is light and small, yet just as powerful as any other controller on the market. Plus the fact that it’s bus powered makes it easy to set up.
meh.. i have it. i wish i saved the $390 i paid. i can’t figure out how to output it to my mix. i have an rca cable with two 1/4 adapters at the end on the cable to connect into the TWITCH but its not working. why couldn’t they make the connection to master out the same as the booth out. any one have this problem or solved it? ..
serato itch.. i can connect the booth out output to my mixer but the master out doesn’t work… newb question but … does it matter if i have the 1/4 adapter in mono or stereo when connecting to the twitch? ..
I don’t think that is the issue the person has with this though. He’s plugging straight into the Main outs using the 1/4" to RCA adapters. Either those outs are shot, the RCA cables are shot, or those adapters are shot. One way to test if it’s a software issue is to plug the RCA cables straight into the booth outs (switch the booth switch in the back from Cue to Master of course) to see if the audio comes out of that. If it does come out from that hook up, then the next step is to get a some 1/4" phono cables and test it with that. If it works with the 1/4" phone cables, then that means the Twitch unit itself is working, the software is working, it’s then obviously the 1/4" adapters the person is using or the RCA cables the person is using.
Was looking at the DX. I saw a listing on one of the UK sites that has the DX showing up as “Discontinued” so, that might be why the price dropped down so low recently (could be just that one site though, not sure, anybody else out there with a better idea?).
As for the output on the Twitch, the output is fine. You might have to adjust the gain on the PA system though. The Twitch has a noticeably lower output then most club controllers like a CDJ. CDJ’s and other powered audio sources have pretty powerful outs so the club systems has the gain lowered to accommodate this, but from a technical standpoint, there’s more than enough there on the Twitch to pump sufficient sound out, you just have to realize that you may need to increase the overall gain on the system your plugging into increased to match other controllers and mixers. Worst comes to worst, you can always just bring a small amp with you, the total size of the controller and the amp is still going to be smaller than even a S4. Definitely way smaller than lugging a NS6/7 around.
