Official Novation Twitch Owners Thread(?)

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Official Novation Twitch Owners Thread(?)

I thought we, owners of the Twitch could gather all the info, tips, TSI’s etc regarding the love bunny that is Novation Twitch.

So, I’ve been pining for thing machine since I first saw it months ago and I’ve had it on pre order for about 2 months. I finally got it yesterday and even took it out playing on the first day, with Itch. I wanted to give Itch an honest chance during a sturdy 6 hour set.

Needless to say the first thing I did this morning was to download and mod the Traktor Pro 2 mapping. The only thing I’ve done so far is to replace play/pause with CUP and changed beat sync to tempo sync and replaced toggle with hold so I don’t have to double click to just sync the tempo, not the track. But I see other things I want to change soon as well, I think the Twitch will be for me, what the VCI100 was for Ean.

I must say this is what I’ve been waiting for since I started feeling limited and tired of the VCI100 2 years ago. Now that I know how bad subwoofers mess up the jog wheels performance in a club, I will undoubtedly never get another controller with jog wheels again. Not to mention the shear amount of real estate you lose on your controller.

The only thing right now that I haven’t been able to figure out is how to make the touch strip more sensitive. I want it to move less fast, so I can nail the cue point perfectly.

Other than that, the build, the feel, the buttons and knobs (some of the knobs have a bit too much resistance, but like any woman, they’ll soften up eventually, wait, what?), it all feels great, light weight but sturdy.

Go on, tell us what you think of it and if you’re working on some creative mappings.

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Haven’t even tried mine with Traktor yet, but I will eventually!

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I’ve been a Traktor addict for many years now and Itch was just a big turn off, mainly because of the lousy BPM reading and limited effects. I like that it’s slimmed down and minimal, but I need freedom of customization of layout, functions etc.

The original Traktor mapping is really tight and works great right out the box, and the layout cover, genius.

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he he, I just realized that the Traktor Overlay is not a “sticker” like the VCI100 overlays. You’re just supposed to place it on top? Come on!

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For flexbility! You could always glue it down :wink:

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A few dots of this will go a long way and it’s not permanent.

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I would probably use this though

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How is the pitch control knob? I was curious how this would perform :slight_smile:

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It’s great in ITCH, I can tell you that much. I’m actually amazed it’s taken this long for a controller to come out with an endless relative pitch control, it just makes sense.

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Drool. want so bad.

Twitch → mixer ← 1200 for scratching

Win.

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If only I could scratch. I suppose technically I could also run SSL and ITCH in parallel if I wanted to. Hmmm… possibilities.

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I was thinking about that - would be nice to use SSL for scratching…but I’ll stick with a traditional record until SSL and ITCH finally merge like in my dream the other night…

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Suppose I could also use Traktor and have it all in one, I just seem to be going through a bit of a Serato phase atm.

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I love what they’ve done with the pitch control and touch strips, freeing so much real estate! The pitch knob is great because one click, when moved slow, is 0.01 bpm adjustment, but twist the knob faster and it shoots away really fast, works exactly the same in Traktor, with same precision.

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Such hassle.

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[quote]It’s great in ITCH, I can tell you that much. I’m actually amazed it’s taken this long for a controller to come out with an endless relative pitch control, it just makes sense.[/quote] I thought it was the case for a long time on the 1d,2d,3d,4d and DX. Well, usually you mapped this function on the endless encoders on those unit and it’s clearly the case on the Dx isn’t it?

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Oh, it looks like I finally found the thread I was looking for. I need a new controller and liked the concept of s4 (minus the jog wheels, the size, the availability of just 2 FX units per deck and the price) and was seriously considering to get a Faderfox DJ3 (or two of them for access to 4 decks without much switching). Than Twitch was announced, but info of its usability with Traktor was nowhere to be found.

Now when I saw the S2, I think the decision is imminent - I just need to hear the first hand experience of DJs who are using Twitch with Traktor, since I really don’t want to use Itch. So, how is it? Responsive or not (there seemed to be significant lag on the promo videos)? How is the Novation provided mapping? After studying it on paper, it really makes sense, but how is it when you actually use it?

Anything you found annoying (other than the obvious a/c b/d switching)? Any hidden problems?

Thank you!

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Tripnotic: I can easily say that the Twitch is a wet dream come true. It’s what I’ve always wanted to have with Traktor and coming from VCI100 > Traktor S4 and now Twitch, I couldn’t be more happy. No lag, no glitches, no bugs, the only thing I want to improve is the sensitivity of the touch strip, to make it move slower to be able to set the cue points with better precision.

The mapping with matching overlay is flawless so far, I just remapped a few detailed functions as mentioned above but I can seriously not find a flaw on this machine. It’s light weight but sturdy, soundcard is really nice sounding and all the buttons and knobs feel like they can stand some beating.

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What about the sound level? There were complaints the sound card’s output is not loud enough. What about the headphone output? I am usually playing breaks and drum’n’bass = extremely loud sound system in the club, so I need a loud headphone output on my controller.

I could still use another soundcard and have the Twitch as a midi controller only, but since it already has a sound card integrated, it would be good to carry one item less to the clubs.

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I think the output is plenty loud, nothing extreme but nothing I noticed anything strange about.

Headphones, I can impossibly comment on because I use in ear monitors, so I never need to crank it.

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Thank you Emil! I think I am sold. I just need to wait for the local distributor to receive their batch of Twitch units and you will have another member in the Twitch community.