TRAKTOR PRO Ideas breakdown 2023

I'm not a "genius", dude. I know like 3 things and put them together.

mixer effects are kind of rigid macro-controlled effects on top of a bi-filter, so that's where you might be getting the reduced "breadth" from. they're not bad. I think as far as effects inside DJ software are concerned, Traktor was always a notch above the competiton.

what's really fun to play with is the signal chain. if you set an fx unit to "insert", it will be pre-fader. the mixer effects are post-fader. so you could have a beatmasher on an insert on the first fx unit, then a reverb or dual delay as a mixer effect effecting that, and then other post-fader fx units getting that signal to mangle further. your gateway to serious complexity, especially if you go for external mixing.

but even with internal mixing, you can do some interesting stuff. you just have to try. push buttons, see what happens. if you're unsure about what something does and whether it will be useful, this is the only way form your own opinion. that's how I got from knowing 0 things to knowing 3 things.

yooo! it's so funny that you would ask me that! 😅😁 as I was writing the previous post, I had a whole paragraph ready about them, but then thought that posting it in here would come across as arrogant. also, my original rant about them from 2 years ago was what got me banned from this corner of the internet.

which, by the way, somebody should tell the admins... is kind of pointless. making one new account is about as much work as sending a whole botnet in here 🤣 luckily I have much more interesting things to do, like building shaders in touchdesigner.

anyway - now that you have asked, here's a shortcut to my thoughts on the pattern player. scroll down to the south park picture :)

I don't use them because I think they're a completely nonsensical addition. traktor has ableton link. maschine has ableton link. bitwig has ableton link. ableton live has ableton link (duh). freaking resolume arena has ableton link. which means, I can push one button and have a whole live set with live visuals synchronized to my DJ set. which is actually how I perform.

so the pattern playern, to me, is kind of like banging two rocks together when you could be flying a space ship. I don't know much about it, except that they took the development resources that should've been put into... literally everything else. all so you would buy a subscription. which I would happily do, if the money wouldn't get burned on more great ideas like the pattern player.

however I don't want to be entirely unhelpful. here's an idea. you have a D2 and an F1. remix decks have a step sequencer. in itself another reason to look at the pattern player and ask "why?". take that, throw a beatmasher into the mix (that's a bad pun, I'm sorry) and... isn't that actually a superior workaround? do that and you'll get more FX units to play with, too. and you can go between remix decks easily, because... they're decks, not effects.

thank you. I shamelessly recommend the entire 3-part article, as well as the other posts on rogueDJs. we're the former DJWORX editorial team, united under a new banner since the DJWORX brand is under new management. so expect quality content after we're done with the initial design tweaks. we're working on some stuff I don't want to jinx before it's confirmed.

this is easy. some people might think it's not, but only because they haven't tried it themselves.