If you’re in Berlin, you can catch him on the 27th of September at a stupidly-affordable 3-hour workshop. (Dear NI: please find a way to shoot a video relating to Reaktor there. And the setting is perfect: it’s the abandoned control room of the power plant at Kraftwerk, the space above Berlin’s club Tresor. The NI kit is nice, but this is as much an ad for Zach’s unique virtuosity, too. He’s a justification for the term “controllerist” if ever there was one. This talented musician and contributor to DJ TechTools does turn digital DJing into an instrumental skill. Music technology is built as tools for humans, so it really only becomes interesting (or not) once you put a person behind this hardware. We’re keen to try them – and even try mapping them to other software. The “high-resolution” platters and new aluminum build are a big part of the story here. (Oh, and PS – because it is class-compliant for iOS, this also makes this controller more hackable for other solutions.
NATIVE INSTRUMENTS TRAKTOR DEMO SOFTWARE
(Now, that doesn’t mean I’m not keen for some software updates – Maschine, Reaktor, better third-party controller support in Traktor, and so on being high on the list.)īut – let me say this again – the big news here is that this could well be the announcement when it was clear that iPads and perhaps other tablets would be on equal footing with laptops. But I find the designs to look and feel terrific, and I keep hearing good feedback from the folks using them. Apologies to those of you in comments who think CDM should be trashing NI’s new hardware. Dedicated controls for Flux Mode (on iOS) and Remix Decks (on desktop).High-resolution jog wheels NI claims send better data, with “aircraft-grade alumnimum plates”.8 color-coded RGB buttons for triggering (as part of NI’s march to turn everything into RGB buttons).
(I’m rather keen to hack these, in fact.)Īs to the “small-step” incremental updates, they’re nice, too: (Beer and MacBooks don’t make the best combo.) And furthermore, you’re no longer purchasing hardware for a dedicated system the Traktor gear will work with desktop and mobile, NI’s software but also anything that supports MIDI. If you still prefer the more-powerful features and expanded storage of a desktop, that iPad now serves as an adequate backup system. On the other hand, laptop users benefit from this flexibility, too. In fact, the one show-stopping problem I have with Traktor DJ on the iPad – the fact that it’s too easy to accidentally switch off a deck with your finger – is resolved by having dedicated hardware. It’s both screen and interface in a way no other hardware or computer can be. It’s smaller, it’s more focused on the task at hand, and its touchscreen excels at manipulating digital waveforms of the music being played. But, if anything, the iPad is starting to look like it could someday have the edge. Oh, sure, the laptop is more flexible when it comes to storage, and NI’s iOS software still lags on some of the nice features of the desktop version, like added effects. But while the updates are nice, the biggest transformation is that you can watch a DJ working with these controllers alongside either an iPad or a Mac/PC laptop – and it really doesn’t matter which they’re using. Native Instruments today has updated their integrated hardware for Traktor DJs, the 4-channel Traktor Kontrol S4 and 2-channel Traktor Kontrol S2. That’s one small step for DJ hardware, one giant leap into the post-PC era.
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