I am however grateful that I have a kontrol F1, which allows me to delve deep inside the remix decks without any hardship of midi mappings and technical wizardry. Thankfully I am not forced to use or buy a Kontrol S8 and as such, I still have the old school flavour of jog wheels at my disposal on the Kontrol S4. Two years later Traktor Tips was born and now I am faced with the perfect storm: Digital Vs Old School. So this is where Traktor remained the strong contender, it bridged the gap nicely between old school DJ’ing and digital possibilities and so I sunk my energies into that. (If you do however, then Vespers is a great tutor) But the program to me was quite the mountain to climb and I didn’t want to spend time learning another software. Due to being deeply routed in the old school scene of turntables and CDJ’s, it has been a real challenge for me to change my perspective and to pull myself out of the ‘mixing two records together’ style of DJ’ing, to the ‘layering of sounds and live production’ style of DJ’ing.Ībleton somewhat tempted me down this route a few years back when there seemed to be an explosion of Ableton DJ’s. With the recent announcement of the Kontrol S8 it is obvious that the DJ landscape is changing.
The remix decks have been feeling a little neglected and have been used simply to launch radio jingles over the last few months. I have tinkered around with it on various occasions but very rarely immersed myself in it for any notable length of time.
Whilst I have owned the Kontrol F1 for almost two years now, it has remained rather dormant up until recently.
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