Traktor DJ iOS App
Its out now, anyone tried it yet?
Traktor DJ for iPad is now available: first ever review !
Here are a few facts after my first 30 minutes testing :
Pros:
- Great layout with vertical cross fader, visual waveform view and panels to show/hide FX, EQs, Grid editor and other options.
- Excellent gesture comtrol of loops, cues, jumps and FX
- Half a dozen FX available for now, controllable through a virtual touchpad (Beatslicer, Reverb, Flanger, Gate among them)
- Very intuitive file browser (I would say even better than on laptop) with search and suggestions of songs that match the one playing
- Automatic and fast beat/key detection (done in the background)
- Very useful Grid Editor with sync capabilities to sync your laptop and your iPad through the cloud with a Dropbox account.
- Excellent “Freeze” feature which allows you to perform like a slice FX but with full control by tapping with your fingers on the slices created on the waveform.
- Built-in Mix Recorder.
- Support for CoreAudio class compilant sound cards besides split-mode (see update)
Cons:
- Only split-mode available for now, no sound card support, (see update)
- No MIDI support or DVS capabilities
- Some audio glitches, especially when changing to another app.
- Limited control over the pitch/key (it’s all about grids and sync button, not for old paradigm djs)
- Scratch on the waveform isn’t very intuitive and doesn’t sound very good.
Looks quite stable and is very easy to use. Quite professional output for an iPad app. Works well on my iPad 2, except for the sound glitches when the app is in the background.
Costs $20
UPDATE: Does support CoreAudio class copilant sound cards, with Traktor Z2 through USB) and Vestax Spin 2 (through the dock cable so it charges too!). Doesn’t work with an Audio 2 or Audio 8. No external mixer mode for now. Also tried Griffin iMic but will not be able to use the iPad’s jack-out + the iMic’s output simultaneously.
iOS6 or later. My first gen iPad doesn’t make the cut. Oh well…
ah man and i switched to android 
guess i have to steal the wifey’s ipad
anyone got a link ?
as per a post on NI’s forum
can’t confirm myself as I don’t and will never have iTune install in any of my computer
and this one
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/traktor-dj/id592052832?mt=8
just purchased & installed.
1st problem. The “link dropbox account” button in settings doesn’t seem to work. When I click on it, it opens the dropbox app, but then nothing happens. (white empty box, with the apple spinning/progress wheel in the middle)
EDIT - ignore me. I shut it down & tried again, & it worked.
Bought and downloaded the app, hopefully there’s a toggle for scratching on the waveform…will never use it… a bit gimmicky IMO but i guess they cater to scratch DJs as well (gimmicky for scratch djs as well anyway!!!).
Pretty cool.
- Does it work with AIFF files (tagging etc)
- How does the sync actually work (a bit scared i’m going to stuff up my Traktor collection
- iTunes sync…
- hopefully they upgrade it to be a bit of a controller app of some sort
It’s cool but ultimately a bit gimmicky, plus it’s great that Traktor can do FLAC now but i may as well convert all of my FLAC to AIFF now, hopefully it doesn’t only work with AAC/MP3s
Here to testing…
for me the only reason to buy this would be the compatibility with kontrol S4
Dropbox is used to sync your Traktor Collection metadata with the Tracks that you import to Traktor DJ.
It works like this:
1- Prep tracks in Traktor > Perform Metadata sync which writes to Dropbox.
2- Import your tunes from iTunes into Traktor DJ.
3 - Traktor DJ syncs with the Dropbox collection and imports all your beatgrids and hotcues etc and puts them on the corresponding tracks.
TDJ checks Dropbox manually and automatically for changes.
Yep. iPad 1 is locked to iOS5 so Traktor DJ is iPad 2 and above only.
On iPad4 it is completely glitch free, runs like a dream.
I have actually been using at some of my gigs in the last month or so with no issues during playback at all.
I feel like it is only a matter of time before they decide to enable controllers and mixers to be used (Z2, S2) however I’m almost certain they’ll lock it to their hardware. I don’t mind but I’m sure there are others that do. The one thing that would make this the killer app for me would be dvs.
I will say that there is a lot more coming to Traktor DJ. I’d see this as just the start.
Any hardware that TDJ can/could use has to be Class Compliant. Just a matter of a Firmware update for some devices.
Quick question. All music import to the app is done via iTunes, just like you would normally place music onto your iOS device? Then TDJ sync metadata to DB in order to receive track data (beatgrid, ect.)? The library that shows in TDJ is going to be limited to what music folders I have selected in iTunes sync?
And my soundcard is firewire so I was screwed anyway lol.
Well I was kinda looking forward to this, but seeing how I’m living in what seems to be the stone age with my ipad1 I won’t be able to use it. Kinda a shame really.
Can’t wait for android to get a better sound engine in it so these type of apps can be brought to the android tablets.
Yes, TDJ will read the iTunes collection and playlists on the iPad. It grabs the metadata from the collection stored in Dropbox.
So, when you add tracks to iTunes on the iPad TDJ will sync the data. TDJ looks for changes in the Dropbox collection automatically or you can force a sync on the iPad or export a sync to the iPad from Traktor Pro.
Setting it up is a piece of cake.
BUT: The music, Traktor Pro, iTunes, HAVE to be on the same machine. You can sync multiple iOS devices but only with a single computer.
Thats a really good version 1.0 IMO. Kinda wish I had not given up my iPad for a mini now. 
Traktor DJ works perfectly well on the iPad Mini dude. Or do you mean the car 
Nah not the car - I’ll use it on the mini for track preparation but the mini’s screen is a bit too tiny for DJing (IMO). I’ll grab the next generation iPad when it arrives later this year for DJing and maybe by then it will have grown to support midi