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Frankie Knuckles feat. Jamie Principle – I’ll Take You There
Apr 29th
Two House legends, Frankie Knuckles & Jamie Principle create a smooth, vocal house track that takes you back to the good old days, simply superb. Shapeshifters also provide a remix that gives it a more upbeat and more modern edge.
Traktor Pro 2 – New DJ Software
Mar 7th
Native Instruments have recently announced the new Traktor Pro/Scratch Pro 2 Software to follow the previous big update, to be released on April 1st.
Big changes in the update include:
Coloured Waveforms
Loop Recorder
Sample decks
2 New effects
Other smaller features and settings
The update looks superb but I do wonder how it’ll be possible to control Effects, hot cues and the sample decks with one Kontrol X1, hopefully there’ll be a workaround, I imagine it’s using the Shift key to alternate between effects and sample decks. Check out the video below:
Red Hot Chili Peppers vs Benny Benassi – My Otherside (DJ Kevin-E’s Bootleg Full Edit)
Jan 10th
I’ve been looking for the full version of Benny Benassi’s remix of Red Hot Chili Peppers – Otherside everywhere but I can’t find it, so here’s my own DJ friendly full length edit as I think it would go down great on the dancefloor. (See Download link below for full 320kbps mp3)
I assume it’s never been released, so this is a bootleg (I don’t want to break copyright law!)
Download link: 4shared
Traktor Pro Distortion? – A Possible Solution
Jan 9th
I’ve finally found a way to solve the distortion and stuttering playback in Traktor Pro when connecting it to my MIDI CD decks.
I searched for days on Google about possible ways to solve the problem, such as re-installing drivers, disabling wireless etc but none of them worked until I came across this…
The issue was with the MIDI mapping settings, and here’s the process I have to do each time I load Traktor Pro to get good sound quality.
At the start you can just about hear the stuttered playback, and then I make the settings changes I need to make every time I load the software to get good sound quality.
Scratch effect on Traktor Pro
Dec 1st
During a session of trying out the effects on Traktor Pro and which of them go well together, here’s a cool feature I came across this week. Using the gater and Peak filter effect together, create a ‘scratch’ effect which you can manipulate using the two effects simultaneously. I recorded this using a mouse with a computer so I was unable to demonstrate using both effects at the same time.
You can use this with any track, just create a Chained effect with Peak filter and Gater, turn Effect to full and have some fun!
Traktor Pro – Effects using a 4-beat loop
Oct 17th
Here’s a quick messaround with effects in Traktor Pro using the Kontrol X1 usb controller. Beat Slicer is turned on the entire time which uses a 4-beat loop, other effects used were delay, filter and flanger. I’m still learning and getting used to the effects etc, but it’s amazing how many different sounds and effects you can create using just a 4-beat loop. I know the sounds aren’t great times and it can sound a bit off in places, but it’s all about getting to know the effects and how you can do your edits and remixes live as well as your own Break-downs, build-ups etc.
New Traktor Pro DJ Setup Preview Video
Oct 1st
A quick preview video of my new DJ setup using Denon DNS-1200 cd decks and a Traktor X1 Kontrol connected up to Traktor Pro DJ software on the iMac.
It took a while to get it all set up properly, getting the cd player display to show correctly and to get better pitch resolution with MIDI etc, but it’s all working and I’ll be making some new mixes very soon! Well, as soon as I can sort out a mixer as my current DJM-400 has problems with the outputs (right channel isn’t working)
DJ Kevin-E – Be Water (Intro – 1st Draft)
Jul 19th
I’ve been using Logic Pro for a week now after buying an IMac and have been playing around with different sounds. Here’s my first draft of an intro of a track with some Bruce Lee samples (more to come). A quick first draft, hopefully I can develop it into a full track sometime soon. I’m a beginner in Logic Pro but let me know what you think. Sorry for the poor quality video, it was ripped from youtube.
Jean Jacques Smoothie – 2People (Louise la Roche Remix – DJ Kevin-E Edit)
Jul 19th
I bought this remix from djdownload.com but only discovered afterwards that it’s only 2 mins – not long for DJ use, so I decided to loop it a bit to make it 4 minutes+. Nothing special here, just a bit of intro/outro looping to play it at gigs.