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Producing 'Remix Kits' for Traktor 2.5
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| dj_alfi |
This is gonna look like it belongs in DJ Booth, but if you bear with me I'll get to the producing part in just a short few paragraphs.
So the new Traktor 2.5 has come out with their new Remix decks, looks like this;
controlled by this;
But third-party controller mappings have already appeared.
[skip]As you can see from the first pic, you have 4x4 cells, plus 3 more pages, that you can load up with basically whatever you want of loops and one-shots. Which is pretty cool. Except you can only play four at a time. 8 if you run from both remix decks, but I gotta remap the active deck function for it to be useful.
Either way this ofc gives it a somewhat limited use as a performance tool for DJ/Producers who wants to showcase some original work in their dj sets, but feels dj'ing in a DAW is just retarded. But workarounds are nothing new for most producers and I have a few ideas that I have yet to try out, but that's neither here nor there.[/skip]
Anyways, in addition to being a fun live tool, it also opens up the market for creating remix kits for the dj's who arent quite as productive.
There were some that came with the F1 as a d/l, but eeeeh they were of dubious quality and I can't really say I thought they were even fun to play with, except maybe the african drums and the swing it up-set was hilaaaarious. How the different remix sets where organized and how you had to use them varied also greatly.
But jah, as I was saying releasing stems/remix kits for free or for money, could be big business, or at least promotion, if someone got on it quickly. The way they hyped up the F1+2.5 it seems weird noone is delivering content.
Oh and a TA contest thing, where the producers made the remix kits then handed it over to the DJ booth guys and let them do their thing.
would blow anything else we've done at least in terms of creativity.
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| Vector A |
Sounds like a cool idea, though I think there is enough of a disconnect between the taste of the DJs in Promotion and the producers in here that making kits suited to both could be problematic. Not to mention that a lot of them think we are all talentless hacks down to a man in here.
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| Beatflux |
| Looks like a dumbed down Ableton with APC40. |
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| dj_alfi |
| quote: | Originally posted by Beatflux
Looks like a dumbed down Ableton with APC40. |
You look like a dumbed down Ableton with APC40. |
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| Rodri Santos |
i think i haven't fully understood what does this imply, the world of midi controllers, ableton live sets is something that still scares me i have seen similar tools often though.
In short. With a machine like that you can tweak the songs greatly? (and i'm not talking about unsynced delays and so on, but real effects, samples etc..) And if so what do you exactly want from the producers here to do and how it is applied to that gadchet? |
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| dj_alfi |
| quote: | Originally posted by Rodri Santos
i think i haven't fully understood what does this imply, the world of midi controllers, ableton live sets is something that still scares me i have seen similar tools often though.
In short. With a machine like that you can tweak the songs greatly? (and i'm not talking about unsynced delays and so on, but real effects, samples etc..) And if so what do you exactly want from the producers here to do and how it is applied to that gadchet? |
Well, each remix deck gives you 4 channels where you have can apply changes to vol, filter, fx and so on. what samples you fill it up with is really up to the producer, or you can just drag a loop from something you're playing on a regular deck, although you get little control as opposed to maybe grouping a a track down to say 4 busses you can control, and split it into sections so you can do some live re-arranging... |
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