New Features in Traktor Pro 2.5

The new release is mainly all about the new Remix decks which Native Instruments has actually trademarked. Meaning: It's kind of a big deal for them, but what does it give us users?

What the new Remix decks in Traktor Pro 2.5 basically does is take 4 ableton decks and put them direcly in to a deck Traktor. Switching all 4 decks in Traktor in to Remix decks will give you the ability to play 16

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Taktor 2.5 and Kontrol F1 is revieled

The last couple of weeks I've been itching to see the new 2.5 version of Traktor and to see the entire Kontrol F1 revieled and yesterday NI lifted the vail.



The new controller is tailor made for the 2.5 remix section which replace the existing loop decks on C & D. Which in fact is a 4 banks x 16 samples clip launcher. It's got  a 4x4 pad which is RGB back lit. You can color code different

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External screens and projection overlay

Touch interfaces lack the tacktile feedback of an actual knob, turntable or jogwheel.
Even though this video is of a Serato setup I still believe that this might enspire someone to move ahead with implementing more visual feedback into controllers.
It looked like the video had alot of lag though and this offcause has to be fixed...

I perticular like the audio overlay of the turntables that

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HID vs Timecode

Just read a very informative article at DJ Techtools about this topic.

In my opinion it all basically boils down to what interface you have available.
HID is in theory superiour, but can be buggy at times. Timecode is simpler more analogue approch, but is also very accurate.

If you've got CD players and can pick either one. I think the HID is the best way to go IF the controller has a good

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