So at the moment i’m using Traktor with a Numark Mixtrack Pro 2 and have just recently added a Traktor Kontrol F1 and i am really loving it. Mixes are starting to sound good and i’m chuffed with the way things are progressing. However the Mixtrack doesn’t have any ‘filter’ control knobs which is really starting to be a bit of a pain… the thing is other than a filter for each of my track decks i’m perfectly content so i’m not really sure buying a controller with loads of knobs is going to be justifiable in my setup and would probably be complete overkill! Thought about re-mapping the Mixtrack but there aren’t really two knobs i can sacrifice in order to have filter control.
Does anyone have any suggestions? What about this TouchOSC for iPhone / iPads, is that worth looking into??
A colleague in the office actually suggested an Akai controller too, said you can pick them up really cheap and they’re ok for the cash? Suppose it would give me a few more options in the future…
My first set up was the Mixtrack Pro 1 and the LPD8 and then I switched to a K2, two X1’s and two MF Pro’s then down to the K2 and X1’s. That’s been my set-up for ages now. I did keep the LPD8 around for a while though just to fuck with. It is really fun.
How’s its reliability though? I tried using it when i first got an iphone and found it was a hit or miss whether Traktor reacted to the controls or not…
TouchOSC on my iPad works perfectly with Traktor on windows. Have got multiple pages mapped to transport/cues/effects, gridding, browsing and remix decks.
When you say hit or miss, do you mean that all the controls didn’t work or just some of them?? I do find that every now and again the iPad won’t connect to the touchOSC bridge, but shutting down the bridge on my laptop and restarting it usually does the trick.
I have no specific issue. I just have to adapt sometimes the type of control (ie faders instead of knobs mainly) but it’s a great tool and one of the most versatile. 3 or 4 different midi signals per control with the possibility of defining the range for each midi signal added to the limitless possibilities of designs.. for that price nothing beats Touch Osc.
