Not much bigger than the laptop it connects to, the Novation Twitch brings portability back to digital DJing, while managing to avoid look like a toy.
Ever had the thought that jogwheels are a bit unnecessary when DJing with digital music? Or dreamt of a controller that replaced them with functions more suited to digital DJing? Looked at technogeeks with their custom controllers and wanted in on the action? If so, the new Novation Twitch DJ controller may be right up your street.
We’ve had a Novation Twitch for review for a week now. We’ve devoured the manual, tested the features, and played a real-life gig using it. So we’re in a great position to answer the question: After all the hype, is this diminutive little controller the way forward, or a brave failure? Let’s find out…
Introduction
Since the advent of digital DJing, DJs have faced a bit of a dilemma. The truth is, digital music files are not like records – they’re not round, and they don’t spin. Yet that’s what DJs have always done – spin things that are round. It’s something that’s proved hard to get away from.
So, back close to the advent of digital, digital vinyl systems (DVS) appeared, to let DJs use “real” record decks to control digital files. To some it was great – the feel of vinyl with digital music! To others, it was the worst of both worlds – none of the simplicity of playing real vinyl, yet you still needed all the old equipment for it to work at all.
To some it was great – the feel of vinyl with digital music! To others, it was the worst of both worlds…
Then, dedicated controllers came along. Over time they got better and better until the performance of the best of them pretty much matched vinyl, with convincing spinbacks, nudging, cueing and scratching all possible from their tiny little platters.
Since then, in search of better “feel”, and also to try to escape the “toy” appearance of many of these devices, DJ controllers have slowly got bigger and heavier (witness the latest batch – the jumbo Pioneer DDJ-T1 (US$926
In getting bigger, these units have at least partially sacrificed the portability that, on paper, is one of digital DJing’s great promises.
The controllerism underground
Meanwhile, a parallel scene has developed. From DJs using just laptops and keyboard shortcuts, to those hacking Midi keyboards or dedicated buttons and pad banks, to Ableton Live DJs performing radical sets with performance tools, a whole underground of DJs have “ditched the jogwheels” to prioritise different aspects of digital DJing in their sets.
The first mass-market DJ controller to recognise this was the Traktor Kontrol S4 (US$899
The Twitch has a lot of tricks up its sleeve, not least this one: Here it is running Traktor, complete with keyboard overlay.
A runaway success, the S4 has proved that if you offer the right innovations, the DJ market will respond positively.
However, the S4 didn’t make as bold a move as to drop the jogwheels entirely. Also, to cram in jogs plus all of those buttons, it was big – borderline for taking in hand luggage on a plane, for instance.
So now, enter the Novation Twitch. A small, lightweight DJing performance tool, the Twitch takes the controllerism ideal – that digital is not vinyl, and shouldn’t try to emulate it – and develops it a stage further than most controllers, by ditching the jogwheels entirely.
Why should real world DJs have to hack together self-mapped DJ systems just to use digital’s most exciting features easily? This question must have been at the forefront of Novation’s designers’ minds as they put together the spec for the Twitch.
As we’ll see, here’s a controller which takes some of the most important elements of controllerism, adds in the essential parts of traditional DJing, and puts it all in a DJ controller that looks like a serious performance tool without taking up half your DJ booth or needing a trolley to move it around. Let’s find out more…
First impressions and setting up
The Twitch is a small controller – about the size of a 15″ laptop. It is given some gravitas by being raised on four moulded “feet” – a bit like a mini-version of the way the Pioneer controllers are engineered, although in this case, the front two “feet” contain the mic and headphones jacks, and the back “feet” have the inputs/outputs, a couple of settings controls plus the Kensington lock hole.
Looks like a serious performance tool without taking up half your DJ booth…
Novation makes nice gear, and this is no exception – the body is thick black plastic, and the top plate is a single sheet of 1mm-thick brushed black metal. Buttons and knobs are variously rubber and plastic, and lit (sometimes multiple colours per button) as necessary. The overall impression is that it is as big as it needs to be but no bigger, and that it’s a serious bit of kit – a pro DJing tool or a performance instrument, not a shrunk, toy-like version of two-decks-and-a-mixer.
The channel faders are nice and loose, but the crossfader is maybe a little stiffer than some scratch DJs would like – but a jogwheel-free DJ controller is hardly going to be appealing to scratch DJs anyway!
The body is thick black plastic, and the top plate is a single sheet of 1mm-thick brushed black metal
Contrary to what you may have read elsewhere, there’s no stiffness in the knobs – on the review model we have, the EQs and a few other knobs had been overeagerly pushed too hard onto their spindles in the factory, but pulling the plastic caps up just a fraction of a millimetre solved the problem in a matter of seconds.
The Twitch is designed to be used with Serato ITCH, which is famously simple to set up and get running – you just install the software, and plug the controller in. No configuration, no options to set. How it should be.
So – software installed, Twitch plugged in to computer (it’s USB powered so no need for external power), and a DJ set dragged into the library and analysed, we’re ready to look at the features.
Basic functions
Let’s look at the stuff you’ve seen before elsewhere first, moving on to the innovations when we’ve covered these areas.
The Twitch is designed to be used with Serato ITCH, which is famously simple to set up…
It is a two-deck device, so it has a two-channel mixer. Each channel has its fader, plus gain (“trim”), low, mid and high controls, and headphone monitoring. VUs are 16-bar stereo master, switching to cue when headphones cue is selected. The LEDs are all red, with no peak colour to show clipping, although the function is identical – you just avoid pushing it all the way as you would with any VU monitoring system.
To the left and right of the mixer are two decks, each a mirror image of the other. However, above each deck the controls differ. Above the left-hand deck are the effects and mic/aux controls, and above the right-hand deck are the library and output volume controls.
The mic/aux inputs
You’re not meant to plug extra decks or CD players into this. It does, however, have a single aux input, which could have various uses – for a backup music source such as an iPod, or as a live source input channel for a sampler or the output from another electronic performer’s system, for instance.
The microphone input is mixed internally with the aux, and they’re treated as one by the system – both the aux (round the back) and the microphone (at the front) have small gain rotaries to get the balance right if you’re using both.
The aux inputs, showing the separate gain control and software/direct thru switch.
Meanwhile, there’s a master level for this combined input, plus on/off and headphone monitoring switches.
A nice feature is that you can run this input through the software, thus making use of the onboard effects (there’s a channel fader for it within ITCH, complete with three-band EQ), or you can feed it directly through the unit – better if using as a backup.
Clearly the Twitch doesn’t pretend to be a comprehensive mixer like some larger DJ controllers. These inputs are a nice compromise between delivering enough flexibility for the Twitch to be taken seriously as a pro device, and keeping the focus on what the unit’s intended use is – a digital performance system.
The master effects
There are actually three effects unit on board, but we’ll get on to the others a bit later. The single master effect unit has 12 effects to choose from – reverb, delay, LPF, HPF, flanger, phaser, crusher, echo, tremelo, repeater, reverser and braker.
The Twitch doesn’t pretend to be a comprehensive mixer like some larger DJ controllers…
Your chosen effect can be assigned to either deck, the aux/mic input, or across the master output. Effects are tied to a factor of the BPM, and of course this value is user-changeable. As well as the wet/dry mix, there are one and sometimes two extra parameters to control.
It’s pretty standard ITCH effects fare, which means that there is a big bar on the screen to show you the controls of the effect you’ve selected, right between the decks and the library sections.
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Great, great review Phil! Very informative.
[ link ]i just love it since the first time I saw it! It has all what’s needed and is still easy to move around. That’s what controllers have to be about – compact, yet powerful. Kudos to Novation for the price point they’ve set too.
DEFINITELY WANT ONE!
The library sorting thing – do you have anything to do with the design, or it’s just that the Novation’s designers are smart enough to figure it out themselves?
Enjoy your new tool!
[ link ]It was all their doing! The Xone:DX has the sane function but the NS6, for example, doesn’t.
[ link ]What do you think of using it as a sort of overkill mixer, say with a pair of TTs in a DVS or between some turntable style controllers?
[ link ]makes perfect sense, IMO. I vote for Serato to integrate proper native support into SSL for it … and of course, it’d need to run through SL* for the audio I/O
… would be doable with TSP too …
Any chance that it can accomodate a battle fader inside? Would there be enough room for an innofader ?
[ link ]Grab the Itch 2.0 beta Phil, just had four hours on it without hitch….
Sample player on there as well, need to figure out how to use it lol!
Cheers
[ link ]D
Seriously considering selling my S4 and buying one of these.
[ link ]lol, me too. I don’t want to see the S4 go, but if I have both, the s4 would likely just stay and collect dust
[ link ]Yeah. I really like the S4, but the smaller size of this is very appealing, especially as I’m going to be travelling a LOT over the next few years.
[ link ]I’m selling my s4 as well, like you said the size of this is really appealing…setting up the s4 in a DJ booth is a mammoth task….i’ve actually gone back to using cdjs when i play out which is very boring if the venue hasn’t got either some cdj 2000s or 1000s because you don’t have that many features…..hence why i love this so much because it has 8 hotcues on each deck
[ link ]You have beautiful hands Phil
[ link ]Great review, thanks – another nail in my “right, I’m buying that sucker” coffin
You made a really solid point with “the truth is, digital music files are not like records – they’re not round, and they don’t spin”. I’d include CDs in that (sure they physically spin, but not in a way that’s at all useful to the DJ!) as well – basically if you want a round controllery thingy then use vinyl or DVS. If not, then this is probably more valid than most controllers out there as it’s not “faking” vinyl…
[ link ]I dont go for this jogwheels = archaic remnant of vinyl. Jogwheels are tools, just like pots, faders, pads, etc.
Ean Golden for example uses jogs to great effect – as FX controls.
[ link ]True but they’re big tools when a smaller tool may be able to do the trick.
[ link ]Oh but they are worse than that. You cannot “Drop” anywhere in the track immediately with a jog wheel (as you can with Vinyl and Twitch), nor can you “pinch or expand” a loop with a Jog Wheel (something neither CD or Vinyl allow). The touchsrtip is simply a better tool for the job.
When you really break down the (Traktor Kontrol S2) video, you see that the jog wheel press and turn moves all the parameters at once (something that can be mapped with any controller). Ean customized the jog wheel for his trick… Ean is also around DJ tools all day and has the know-how to make all of those “very narrow control mappings” work for a set or one demonstration mix, something most people won’t do and shouldn’t be fooled by one man’s expertise at mapping controls. On the flip-side, if you’re looking for controls (out of the box) The Twitch has the ability to control all 3 parameters of all four of the Traktor Pro effects.
[ link ]I’m anxious to try one of these out. Looking for something portable that I can throw into a backpack and take on my motorcycle. Thinking about a used VCI-300 but this might be a better choice.
[ link ]It’s much lighter than the VCI-300 so would suit you in that respect.
[ link ]Does it have headphone split cue please!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[ link ]No it doesn’t.
[ link ]Yeah that kind of screws it up for me. Why on the world would they make such a great product with no split cue?
[ link ]To be fair, very few DJ controllers do. It does have a master/cue mix which achieves the same goal albeit by a different method. It also has a booth out which I think is more important.
[ link ]More controllers with no jog wheels would be great. Buttons and faders are all I want really. Some of my friends still use their trusty UC33′s. And something similar to this without the built-in audio interface would be even better to keep costs down and to appease those of us who are perfectly happy with our external interfaces. Here’s hoping.
[ link ]djjc says” More controllers with no jog wheels would be great”.
Vestax TR-1.
[ link ]Good point, although it’s bit long in the tooth now.
[ link ]question: Is the cue mix MIDI or hardware control?
I often wish the Cue mix knob on the S4 would be a hardware control and not MIDI, as i’m setting the system default output (e.g. iTunes, Youtube) to the sound card master out, but I need to listen to it through the headphones, when at home, as my speakers are off. Now, I have to switch back and forth the software routing to output on the headphones, which is inconvenient. If it’s an analogue control, it’d be flawless …
[ link ]Not sure what you mean, but you can use your laptop’s sound card independently of the Twitch’s sound card – so you can be playing a tune on your iTunes on the laptop and also two different tunes on Twitch, and in the Twitch headphones mix, you are hearing your two DJ tunes. Does that help?
[ link ]I understand what you say, but my question is different. I’d be setting TWITCH’s master out to be the default system output, not the laptop one.
My question is if the knob, which controls the Master/Cue mix (the one next to the headphones level on the right) is an analogue control, or MIDI one. Analogue, in terms that it crossfades the master & the cue bus electrically, independent of the software.
It’s better if it’s an analogue, so in case TWITCH’s master is your default sound out, by twist of the knob, you can still hear the same signal audible on the master/speakers, but on the headphones . With the S4, it’s Traktor doing the crossfade (MIDI), so I don’t hear the same signal as the one one the speakers in case other app is sharing the soundcard’s master output. It’s best if it’s software independent.
[ link ]I’m not sure you can do what you’re wanting to do in ITCH, but I may be wrong. Anyway, I don’t know how to work out whether that’s an analogue or a Midi knob – I think it’s probably Midi.
[ link ]The test for this would be easy:
1. from the Audio/MIDI Setup app (Mac) -> Audio Setup (in the Window menu) you can choose which is your default Audio Out device. Right click the TWITCH soundcard and select “Use this device for sound output”
1a. By default, it should set to output on the master channel, but if not, the default output pair can be changed from the “Configure Speakers” menu.
2. Start an iTunes or another preferred player – you should be hearing the audio playing through the speakers connected to TWITCH
3. Twisting the MIX knob will either do nothing (if it’s MIDI), or you will start hearing the iTunes music in the headphones, like on the speaker.
It doesn’t matter if ITCH will be running or not, if you hear the output of iTunes on both the speakers and the phones, while the MIX knob is at “master” position, it’d be an analogue control.
BTW, I really like that the BOOTH can be switched on either the CUE or the MASTER buses. That’s very useful and makes me really optimistic that the MIX knob will also be an analogue control too
[ link ]I was hoping for a more details on the touchstrips. I think that is one of the most innovative features of this controller.
I had a hard time getting used to not having jogwheels with my current controller, but eventually got used to it. I was able to adapt by mapping buttons to “seek” functions and what not.
I want to pick one of these up, if the touch strip can give me the same amount of control in nudging tracks forward and backwards as you would with jogwheels. In other reviews on Youtube, it looks like that may be the case.
[ link ]That is the case – they are “progressive” like using a jogwheel, and feel pretty convincing. To me they’re 90% as good as using jogs – but I’m used to VCI-300 jogs, which are the best in the business. I suspect you’d get used to the touchstrips quite quickly. I am going to play a couple more gigs on it to make my mind up about that. Watch the video for a demo of the touchstrips.
[ link ]Looking forward to it, Phil.
[ link ]Hi Phill
I notice you’ve got a MacBook Pro. Did Twitch seem happy enough running on USB bus power from that?
This is the only thing that’s concerning me, as historically there’s been “issues” with making sure you use the “right” USB socket on Mac’s.
I’ve got a Twitch on order, so hopefully it will be fine.
[ link ]also, is the mic input useable?
I know a lot of people found the VCI 300 mic input to be unuseable (bad delay, funny phasing effects). If Itch’s mic input is ok, then it would make the unit useable for small mobile gigs, without needing an external mixer.
[ link ]Sounded good to me.
[ link ]Yes, worked fine.
[ link ]Hey Phil, cheers for the great review and the video. Would love to see a few mixes in action to see how well the touch strips work for setting cue points and manual beatmatching! Any chance? (cheekily)
[ link ]I am waiting for a competitively priced digital controller that can link to either traktor, torq 2.0, or serato and comes with 4 channels using rotary knobs (optional) instead of sliding faders. Until something more affordable comes out to meet that criteria I am going to use a DJM 3000, Traktor Kontrol x1, and my audio interface (M-Audio Connectiv) in an attempt to move away from the turntables and have still have fun.
[ link ]Phil, can you post some recorded sets with the Novation Twitch? Many of us would like to hear how it sounds. I’m sure it sounds good…I’m just a stickler about wanting big fat rotary controls.
[ link ]If I get around to doing one soon, sure.
[ link ]Great Review, I started spinning in 1986 then skipped From vinyl straight to the digital domain with ableton 4 to present(I hated Cd decks never wanted to use them i found them so uninviting) anyhow i Felt pressured that the djing without platters/jogs was not wright or in fact fake, but what the layman clubber does not realise is the fact that the spinning discs is only a gimmick in the digital realm unless you are a scratch dj of course, most djs will Hit the sync button more often than not, is this cheating yes! But only if you don’t use your free time!, but that’s the whole point with the future. And confessions of all djs i would say, we all want to excite and be loved so now we have opportunity to put our creativity on our sets, so again those that flounder around and those who push their limits will be known apart as technology advances. anyhow last week i got my Traktor S4, so disappointing for me it was like taking a step back, i was soul destroyed at wasting £750 in my eyes, anyhow with much debate i managed to send it back, and i was stuck with the choice of the Numark NS6 the twitch had not really been noticed by myself, then i had a brain wave, i used my refund to buy another Akai APC40 and ordered a twitch controller, best of both worlds, and after reading your review it has confirmed my Instinct which is normally correct, i can use the both with ableton add a flight case and the built in souncard another reason i got fed up with ableton and sold my vestax VCM600 and my first Akai APC40,Great controllers but just to much gear to add a separate soundcard etc. all this has just changed and i cant wait to get up and running, and like is say i also have serato itch to play with, I really hope that people speak out and get on Serato’s and abletons case about developing a bridge for Itch, that would just open up the whole game and would truly be the Real game changer for the masses, so again, i am very happy chappy now, knowing i have made the Correct Choice thanks to your Review, roll on delivery day.
[ link ]PS: Small world Phil Morse after many years clubbing at tangled, i would never had thought you would have taken that digital Controller approach , but i was glad to see that Going off towards the end of tangled nights you started to delve with Traktor,as we both know their where Only a few tangled members/djs who where embracing the technology, some traktor some ableton users, so i must say its really good to see you have advanced more so again, I thought you had quit the dj game, so fair do on this well written Review i would never had thought it being you until i Clicked you where the author here.
A true dj will never really be able to leave it behind, and technology can inspire us Tired Old time Djs, it has always kept me going, and at last we are getting somewhere,
Glad to see you have the Buzz again Phil.
As always, great read Phil (you’re the man). These words struck out to me “This is an important controller.” and I know coming from you that they really mean something (you pointed me to a great controller before and I still love it).
Although I don’t need one, I am feeling the need deep down in my pockets to have one.
thanks
[ link ]It’s inspired me to rethink the way I DJ alongside ITCH 2.0, the same as the S4 and Traktor Pro 2 has for many DJs. This is a good thing.
[ link ]the soundcard’s quality worries me about usin this in professional PA system
[ link ]Why is that? Novation is essentially Focusrite, who do high-end sound-cards.
[ link ]yes, i hope this sound card have the focusrite quality ! and work fine in a PA system
[ link ]It will just be a Focusrite card in a different box. Way cheaper than designing a new card… and they will have standard chipsets, drivers, etc.
[ link ]is a lot of reports in serato forum about the deficient volume output (very low) beacuse the usb power supply, makes twitch not professioanl equipament, why do you thing in blogs review anybody talk about that ?
[ link ]Do the Low/Mid/High EQs kill the frequencys or just attenuate ?
[ link ]I kid you not. I look at controllers every day, but I haven’t gotten a chance to play with a Twitch yet. Your video literally sold me on it.
[ link ]So is it possible to control the sample player within itch with the buttons of twitch?
[ link ]Greets
Not at the moment, no.
[ link ]i wanna know if the built in sound card is as powerful as seratos to be used on a big setup???
[ link ]It’s as good as Serato’s.
[ link ]Why the blogs review dont tell the deficient lower twitch output ? ham ?????
[ link ]We have got a Twitch here and we’re using it professionally and we find it’s output to be sufficient volume.
[ link ]FYI… side by side test with an S4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixv46DxhKd0
[ link ]So I watched the videos, looked at every review I could find, and asked around of the forums and haven’t got one yet. With the twitch can you use Serato 2.0′s new four deck control? I’ve seen the overlay and noticed that you could control four ‘decks’ using NI’s Traktor and just wanted to know before I buy.
[ link ]Serato ITCH has always had four deck control, but you need a four deck controller (NS6, Xone:DX) to use all four decks, and TWITCH is only a two deck controller – so no.
[ link ]Hey Phil,
Thanks for the detailed review. I purchased the TWITCH a few weeks ago and am waiting for the next batch to come in before it’s shipped to me. I do, however, have a question about the functionality of Serato Itch with TWITCH. I have been using a Hercules 4-MX with Virtual DJ LE; One of the key features with this set up/software is that when you have the software running you can see the layout of both songs playing at the top of your laptop screen and then match up the beats by dragging and aligning them as well as matching up the drops of the songs (I do mostly EDM dance music so by drops I mean the chorus). I’ve been trying to figure out how this would be done on ITCH but I have not been able to wrap my head around it, meaning : How would one align a song so that it drops at the same time as the song that is currently playing?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks again!
[ link ]It works the same as other controllers, you just use the touchstrip not the jogs to adjust.
[ link ]Thanks for your quick reply!
I think you misunderstood my question, though. My concern was how one would match up the drops in the ITCH software not necessarily how they would do it with the TWITCH. Like I said, with VIRTUAL DJ you can align the drops simply by syncing the beats and dragging the song via the beatgrid on top. I’m unclear as to how this would be done on ITCH, however.
Thanks again!
[ link ]I’ve been trying to figure out a way to do this in ANY software without success for ahwile. The closest I’ve come to finding something similar to this is steve duda’s setup youtube(dot)com/watch?v=R1L-74MaL38 he explains this at 2:20, but it’s kinda limited. I’m working with some pretty far out mappings of the Traktor beatjump functionality with bomes midi translator right now with middling progress.
[ link ]No sampler
[ link ]Phil, I would guess you have played a few gigs with the twitch now. Does it still stand up to a 5 star rating? Have you found any limitations from using jogs?
[ link ]Anyone know how well it intergrates with itch 2
[ link ]It works perfectly; the sync button now works slightly differently to how it is labelled, and you can’t control the sample decks from Twitch, but it all works fine.
[ link ]Anyone know how well it intergrates with itch 2
[ link ]How well does the twitch intergrate with itch 2?
[ link ]Would I be able to use this with other dj device such as the vestax pad one? Anyone know if itch has a midi learn function?
[ link ]You can’t alter ITCH’s mappings, but you can use Twitch with Traktor (and Pad One) and map them as you like.
[ link ]Thanks Phil! … decisions decisions. Either way going to have an excellent christmas break
[ link ]Phil, you’ve had this unit for a while, can you comment on the durability of the unit so far? Someone on this site I believe, commented on how the buttons wore out and/or didn’t work anymore.
Currently have a DN MC6000 which I’m not fully satisfied with, and too cramped for my liking. And deciding between this and the VCI-400 (but twice the price)and will for sure see what NAMM 2012 has to offer.
This unit looks pretty good and its a ITCH hardware, bonus!
[ link ]It’s plastic built and lightweight, but high quality – I have no problem with the durability of it. However the heavy, metal-built VCI-400 is a different beast entirely!
[ link ]Hi Phil, thanks for your exhaustive reviews.
I was thinking to buy a Twitch cause it fits all my needs, especially for the price, and I was wondering if I would be able, then, to plug an analogue turntable to that AUX input, to digitalize some of my thousands analogue songs.
Greets
[ link ]No you can’t, it’s only a line input. There are turntables out there with amplifiers built in so you can plug then into line inputs, and every turntables with USB sockets so you can USB them straight into the PC, but a normal turntable won’t work with Twitch.
[ link ]Or you could buy yourself a cheap portable phono amp like this,
https://www.storedj.com.au/products/BEH-PP400?gclid=CJKe6OTHlLECFUIkpQod-kyOiQ
[ link ]I got the Twitch. It’s not perfect but I do like it.
Coming back to Itch and now 2.1 was a little challenging which is a little different than previous versions I used. The built isn’t pro, mostly the faders and knobs but it does the job.
The remixing and playing around on this unit, is the best experience I’ve had so far. It’s insane! For those who are used to Traktor’s FXs, Itch isn’t that bad at all. the essentials are there and easily accessible. The best has to be fader volume FX.
In regards to the volume it is VERY low and lacks punch. Playing tunes from the laptop’s soundcard is even louder.
However, I’m currenlty using the “Booth Out” as the master. Gonna get 1/4 to RCA cables, but the question is is the sound from the “real” Master Out 1/4 louder than the Booth out?
Weirdly enough, the sound from headphone jack on the Twitch is louder than the “Booth Out”…
The Traktor mapping from Novation is a waste. Awkward (mostly for FX). I hope to find a proper mapping. So much potential!
[ link ]hi there…i have a problem here , i using novation twitch , and i want to use traktor , but i can’t here a headphone monitor in the traktor, but running well in serato itch , can you guys help me?
[ link ]You need to set the output routing correctly in Traktor.
[ link ]Hallay, I had the same issue as well. It’s because in Traktor you have to kinda set-up manually at 1st.
Now sure how you have your screen set-up, but I have 4 decks on below deck “D” on the same row as the crossfader there’s a “mix, headphone and aux” vol controls. I have mix all the way down, headphone vol all the way up and aux all the down since I don’t use it for now.
With headphone volume all the way up in Traktor, now you use Twtich headphone vol to lower or increase that sound.
Hope it helps!
[ link ]Hi Phil,
I’m new to digital djing. I’d like it if you could comment on the lacking sampler function and what it means for you when using the Novation Twitch (if it’s made any difference at all).
Thanks
[ link ]I believe it’s been mapped now to Twitch but I may be wrong. You can always use the Mac keyboard to trigger samples.
[ link ]Superb review, very detailed. I had a lot of questions about Twitch and all have been answered. Especially like the part of the review when the kit is used in a live gig. The only other Q’s will be when I use the kit myself but I think this review will also help with those. Thanks
[ link ]Thank you for the review Phil – and all the hard work you do! I am just starting out and all your reviews and videos have been amazingly helpful.
I have gotten to the point where I want/need a DJ controller and trying to stay away form the “toys” while not breaking the bank. I have zero need for scratching and the Twitch just seems like a really interesting alternative. I am considering the Twitch or the Reloop Mixage. I’ve been using Traktor but feel I could make the “ITCH switch” if necessary. Do you think the Twitch would be difficult for beginners?
Thank you again – wonderful site.
[ link ]No, it wouldn’t be difficult for beginners. Just bear in mind that most DJs have experience using “spinny things”, so you won’t be getting that experience.
[ link ]OMG I am so going to get that thx for the great review
[ link ]Hi Phil,
I’m somewhat intimidated by Twitch as a beginner. how is the learning curve?
thanks
[ link ]Well, Thats yet another controller i have to decide on lol..I was settled on purchasing a Denon MC3000 this week but after seeing this and reading up on it i now really want this..Im a newbie to digital and it only for home use but occasional use in work as a teaching tool, I didnt fancy Traktor which was on some controllers but wanted VDJ now serato itch sounds rerally cool with this and im now in two minds.The gadgets and the lights are whats swingin it for me and the possibilities this thing can do once learnt on it, A great review as always andim now very excited..Rollon Thursdaylol
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