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- I broke my one and only piece of equipment, I have my microsoft touchscreen laptop. I saw an HP commercial a long time ago with a DJ who was using a touchscreen to DJ, does anyone know where to find something like this?Or has anyone had experience with it, how is it? I would download it if I could find it. I would love to at least gibe it a try! When I use traktor or ableton on my touchscreen everything is too small to touch and function properly.Thanks!The only serious DJ software I know of that is remotely touchscreen ready is VDJ8, but even then DJ-ing with a laptop touchscreen is bedroom fun at best. I don’t see anyone accomplishing anything serious with it.The best sofware is virtual dj 7 or 8 with a numark dj2go skin or a mixtrack edge skin. There are other dj apps that are free to use such as “Zulu dj” and you could also by some on net such at djay 2 or something similar. There are apps that you can use as a dj turntable such as “tonetable” but it’s that app is for ipads I think so you should look into that.If you have virtual dj you would just need the skin not the controllerNice! definitely getting this, want to try out on the weekend.Yeah it looks toughs, I got to experiment with this though. Seen this a while back and it seems like it’s still in a beta mode test.
Nov 16, 2015 The HP Envy Rove GIANT Touchscreen Tablet Is Running Windows 7 16gb Ram An i3 And Traktor Pro Traktor Pro On A Touch Screen Surface This Size Is Really Amazing Al;though Its Not As Easy To Use On.
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There has been plenty of hype about Emulator, a multi-touch overlay for Traktor Pro that was first brought to most people’s attention last year when its presentation on a big glass panel wowed a lot of DJs.
Today I’m going to answer the question that many people asked at the time, and have been asking since: Is this really the future of DJing?
I’ve prepared a video walkthrough of Emulator Multi-Touch, to accompany this short review.
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First impressions/setting up
Since Traktor Pro doesn’t offer a plug-in interface, Emulator has to use some tricks. It communicates with Traktor via Midi. A virtual Midi device is good enough for the task: that is basically a driver that fakes an actual Midi device. Since Windows (it’s written in .NET, so is Windows-only at the moment) has no built-in way to create such a device, Emulator comes with the free LoopBe1 Midi driver.
However, a lot of Traktor’s functions can’t be accessed like this. Therefore Emulator displays parts of Traktor’s original user interface (like the waveforms and file browser) through its template. So it truly is an overlay for Traktor!
In use
The overlay has a clean interface with vibrant colours. It’s integrated as tightly as is possible with Traktor Pro and makes good use of Windows 7’s built-in multi-touch capabilities (of course, you need a suitable screen to use it at all). However, I was disappointed to find that no multi-touch gestures are used and that there are no innovative controls to make use of touch control at all. For instance, where are X-Y meters which work so very well on touchscreens?
Instead, I found that the layout of the controls is not optimal (it takes too many taps to be able to use the effects, for instance), and that there’s no way to customise the layout. Several other features are really quite basic: Only two decks are supported, and the only screen resolution is 1280 x 800, for instance.
These things would be reasonably easy to solve in a future version, but more of an issue is that due to relying on Windows 7 Input API, the latency is pretty high – something that is more difficult to solve.
Conclusion
To unlock the potential of multi-touch interfaces, developers have to think outside of the box. Now that we can interact directly with the user interface, there are a lot of new possibilities for us get our heads around, and Emulator, in sticking to the tried-and-tested, hasn’t yet done that.
Up until now the best way to control a DJ software was using external controllers, and I have to say that I’d prefer my old-school buttons, knobs and faders any day over something which does exactly the same minus tactile feedback.
So, despite the sleek style-factor of a transparent multitouch-screen, Emulator doesn’t have much to offer that a serious DJ would want at this stage. It’s a good first attempt, but let’s hope version 2 will address some of these fundamentals.
Finally, I think the high price for the software (US$249) is prohibitive if you consider that you can get Traktor Pro for as low as US$200.
• Alexander “Hedgehog” Zigelski is the creator of the Midi Fight Club party series, which pushes digital DJing by showing that turntables, controllers and studio gear can live side-by-side in perfect harmony. On his blog www.ali.dj, he talks about the technical side of DJing and releases tools for Traktor, among others.
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