![]() ![]() Designed specifically for DJing, the KONTROL F1 offers aĭJ-centric workflow for launching clips in an intuitive way, allowing users Touch-sensitive LED pads, an advanced global control section as well asĪn ergonomic mixer section including four volume faders and dedicatedįilter knobs. TRAKTOR KONTROL F1 provides 16 multi-colored, ![]() TRAKTOR KONTROL F1, a pad-based, USB-powered hardware controllerīuilt to control the advanced Remix DecksTM in the included TRAKTOR New Remix DecksTM in TRAKTOR PRO 2.5 softwareīerlin, March 14th, 2012 – Native Instruments today announced New hardware controller with multi-colored LED pads to access the Native Instruments Announces TRAKTOR KONTROL F1 Traktor has always, at its core, been about precisely curating pre-recorded sound, not generating it from scratch, as production-based suites tend to be. There are obvious parallels to Ableton's system-wide timestretching/syncing capabilities here, but Native Instruments doesn't seem to be playing catch-up here. While beginner DJs will want to stick to full songs to get their bearings, more experienced users will find that with a good amount of dedication to selecting, laying out, and learning sample banks, their mixes will become significantly more involved, and a lot more fun to work with. This box forces the DJ to give samples more attention before the action starts and while the performance is happening. In the past, working with samples felt like something of an afterthought, or a gimmick (see the perennial "airhorn" or "nuclear bomb drop" sounds for reference). Our all-too-scarce minutes with the Traktor Kontrol F1 weren't enough to get any significant production work going, but we did manage to get a feel for what might be possible when it tags along with our existing Traktor setup. Traktor 2.5 software, now with Remix Decks The grid also serves as a 16-pixel animation display, so you're constantly treated to a deeper look at how the interface is triggering or navigating through each individual sound. Those candy-colored lights - each hue customizable via an embedded LED - communicate which type of sample is loaded in the corresponding slot in software. A single Traktor-standard rotary encoder is used to adjust parameters. Above each column sits a slider generally used for column volume control and a filter knob. These also serve secondary functions in shift-mode (pitch, speed and color) to further shape the sound. Surrounding the grid are a host of operational effects that modify playback of sounds in the corresponding rows, or in other cases, of all the sounds currently playing back in a column: sync, quant, capture, stop, type and size. Putting it simply, the F1 is a 4.7-by-11.5-inch box with a standard 16-pad interface that should be familiar to anyone who's encountered an MPC-style interface. We had an exclusive sit-down with a beta version of the adorable blinky-buttony-slidery controller/instrument-thing that we're itching to spill the beans on, so join us after the break, won't you? New Remix Decks in the accompanying Traktor 2.5 software cater to a more granular perspective on mixing, and the F1 is the tool that brings the new layers to your fingertips. The rainbow-flavored box aims squarely at the growing number of beat junkies who fall somewhere between DJ and producer. ![]() it's well built and versatile, once it's set up it very nice to work with.A very colorful light will shine upon Native Instruments' DJ ecosystem on May 30th, and it's called Traktor Kontrol F1. to get any automap funtionality you have to download the "midi remote script" online.īottom line i love this controller. to use as a "blank" controller the K2 has to be in the "layer latch" mode where none of the pads are latched. Only negative is that the there are basically no set up guides that ive found for using with different DAWs as a midi controller. the K2 is dope the knobs provide good resitance rotating, the sliders slider real good, and the layer functionality is easy to use with the color coding (switching layers of midi controls makes all the buttons light a different LED color so you get an extra layer of brain recognition) I sold my APC 40 mkii and use this and a push 1 (I use the push 1 for clip triggering and volume control on a more granular level and use the xone K2 for volume/FX on 4 main stems for each track in my live set (I send each track to one of four return tracks: vox drums bass other). It is intuitively designed and with the layer function actually provides 3x the controller for your buck. I use this with ableton as the controller for the effects on my stems during live performance. ![]()
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