![]() To delve more into manipulating an individual track, you’ll need to use the “visual” fader on the left of the app. Good for chopping up vocals, rearranging short riffs, teasing a track in, or echoing out elements as you leave a mix. It’s not going to be for everyone, but it’s only a small button on each deck that you can ignore if you don’t want it – and it’s actually a lot of fun. (By the way, using a single finger to “swipe” the main waveform makes it behave as if you were touching a piece of vinyl – a nuclear option for getting out of mixes!) Once your loop is running, pressing Freeze expands the loop to fill the screen, and you can finger drum to your heart’s content on the fixed loop, simply exiting the loop to carry on playing the track. You press the loop button to the right of either waveform to set a loop at a predetermined length (as touched on earlier), or you use two fingers on the main waveform to touch where you want the loop to start and end. Set a loop first, and the app lets you do the same thing, but this time on this loop. The individual beats within the loop can now be ‘played’ with your fingers. Here, a loop has been frozen on the top deck. Meanwhile, the track is playing on underneath, and when you’re done, it’s as if you’d never started messing. Hitting the little snowflake for either deck stops the waveform playing, and then by touching beats, they’ll play back according to the quantise settings. Let’s dig a little deeper… Freeze and loop modesĪ little like slicer on the Novation Twitch, Freeze mode freezes the waveform of the current section of the track allowing you to play segments of it in a finger-drumming style on the screen. But there’s actually a lot more to the app than immediately meets the eye. Traktor takes care of the sync, and you simply rinse and repeat – hey, you’re DJing.īy doing nothing more than this, you can easily while time away DJing on the bus with your earbuds and your iTunes collection, and the results are pretty good. Hitting the record sleeve on a deck when something’s loaded on the other deck takes you to a screen of recommended tracks (matched by key, tempo and – apparently – some kind of energy analysis) to shortcut the selection process for the next track, and again you load and play. You tap the record sleeve to bring up the music library, select a track, use a swipe control to throw it onto deck 1 or 2, and hit “play”. ![]() ![]() The two deck view gives you both waveforms plus some basic controls over both decks simultaneously.Īpart from sync on/off and a beatgridding button for (really slick, as it turns out) beat and bar adjustment on the fly, that’s it for this screen. Each, on the main screen, has a play/pause and loop button (the loop can be preset, the standard being 4 beats the highest it’ll go is 16 beats, and I’d like to have seen this have a 32 beat option too), plus there’s a freeze button for each deck too (more on that later).Įach main waveform has a smaller, full-track waveform that shows the current position and can be pinched or expanded to zoom the main waveform out or in (you can also select a point to jump to anywhere in the playing track, and the app can do it “on the beat” for you). Traktor DJ for iPhone offers two touch-sensitive waveform decks, and a vertical crossfader for mixing between them. The basic idea remains exactly the same as with the version for the iPad, and the feature set here is practically identical.
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