Gadgetory

hey guys it's kneeling at the verge I'm here with Jim maser who is head of product design for tractor tractors DJ software if you've ever been to a club or a bar with a DJ they're probably running tractor on a laptop somewhere and now they're bringing the software to the iPad it's called Traktor DJ and this seems like it's gonna be like 20 bucks mm-hmm it does a lot of stuff like how do you see that market expanding are you gonna be a pros knees this or kids gonna just play around with it or they gotta graduate up yeah we want to make actually the first right entrance point for somebody that's interested in in DJing but maybe hasn't gone out and bought Hardware yet so we wanted to spend the time and take that kind of thinking that we have at native which is very much for the pros and apply it to this interface to the screen and think about you know what well how would our take be on DJ stuff we're running on an iPad I I see this actually is a great like after-party thing yeah like you know gear somewhere else pull out the iPad start having fun yeah the first thing you'll notice on the interface is the two waveforms and we wanted to actually try to think about new ways that you can interact with music through the waveforms and achieve traditional DJ techniques such as cue points and loops on a touchscreen so I'll show you some examples of this for example scratching is done just by a swipe and it keeps time using the same flux mode concept in Traktor but I have this freeze button which I can turn on at any point he basically turns the waveform into individual touch points for cue points so that looks like this at any point I can just decide that I want to start from in on the waveform and to set a loop you simply just tap the waveform with two fingers where you want the loop to be placed and to release you tap again and you can set the loop ahead of the playhead so we'll roll in or you can even set behind and by placing your two fingers on the screen you can actually grab the loop in your hand and move it about if that's cool you can even change the size and when it comes to mixing you can bring in the browser to find your next song from the bottom and this will take your iTunes collection and it will run a bunch of tracker algorithms on it for the actual tempo of the song the key the melodic key and we'll do some kind of sound similarity and because this has downbeat detection as soon as I hit play this will start playing and sync it to the downbeat so so now these tracks are playing perfectly synced I can crossfade back and forth additionally I can bring in more like mixing tools so we actually have a EQ and filter panel which you can slide in from the right so I can kill the bass on the top track bring it back in I can also switch this just to be an XY filter control where it's adaptive if I do if I go to the right of the center I'll get a high pass if I go to the left I'll get a low pass and I can lock this in place if I want to hold the filter so for example we'll hold it there and then bring in some effects so I can have both these panels open or just one and you have three effects that you can access at once so you can choose which effect you want so for example I have a reverb delay and beat master is my first effect so I just press here or I can switch the reverb or delay we also have an audio panel so you can record your mix as you do a mix and you can have a split output so if you have a headphone splitter you can send them a master to your speakers and monitor to your headphones you're kind of doing a lot of work for people you know if you ask a old-school DJ they say you're doing you're taking all the art of it this out like you don't have to learn the fundamentals so how do you respond to that for me it's really like getting two tracks up and running and and really playing with the music is so much more exciting than that get trying to get to that point right because once once you're there I mean it's literally yeah just I turn the app on in 30 minutes blow by you