Features
TWITCH can put your music in time, leaving you free to get creative
- Serato ITCH software can beat match tracks so you can focus on performing
- TWITCH gives you hands-on control of some powerful performance tools
Touchstrips for navigating tracks
- Swipe tracks backwards and forwards as if you were touching the screen
- You can instantly ‘Drop’ into a tune at any point in the track
‘Slicer’ Performance Mode
- Slicer allows you to chop-up beats in time and re-arrange them on the fly
- 2 x 8 large Triggerpads let you to play eight rolling beat slices in any order
Tough and compact with a 2 in 4 out high-quality audio interface
- Designed for gigging: Compact casing, bus powered with LED buttons
- Balanced outputs, ultra-reliable audio/MIDI drivers and microphone input
Master FX and ‘Fader FX Mode’
- Add different effects to either or both channels with TWITCH's FX section
- Use both channel faders for super-fast FX moves and tricks
Trigger Hot Cue Points and 2 different Loop Modes
- 8 large Triggerpads can fire off 8 cue-points anywhere in your track
- Trigger 8 different loop lengths and save them with your performance
Novation's Twitch is an awesome DJ controller for use with something like Ableton or Traktor to start cutting up and remixing music digitally. Whereas most DJ controllers have all of the standard DJ fare like jog wheels and so on the Twitch works backwards from the end result: only the controls you actually need when you're working digitally. And that means the potential is absolutely awesome as the videos below will testify!
Here's what Novation say about the Twitch DJ Controller
Novation TWITCH is a DJ controller with a completely new take on DJing. The focus is on cutting up beats, glitchy looping, firing off cue points and getting a totally different level of control over FX. TWITCH has an on-board 2 in 4 out audio interface and is fully bus powered - so it is totally portable.
TWITCH has been co-developed with Serato and comes with full-powered ITCH DJ software. It also ships with a Traktor mapping and overlay. If you are an Ableton Live DJ, TWITCH is the perfect controller. Download this free translator software to get instant hands on control of Live.
Specification
- Mixer section:
- 8x pots: EQ and trim
- 2x channel faders
- 1x replaceable crossfader
- 2x Continuous rotary encoders
- 2x headphone assign buttons - enables respective deck in the cue mix
- 2x Fader FX assign buttons
- Master section:
- 4x pots
- Headphone level
- Master/cue mix
- Booth level
- Master output
- Controls per deck:
- Touchstrip with swipe and drop modes
- Continuous rotary encoder for pitch +/-
- Cue button
- Play/Pause button
- 8x Large Triggerpads
- 4x performance mode selector buttons
- 2x Beatgrid buttons
- 2x sync/keylock buttons
- Master FX section:
- 1x Pot
- 2x continuous rotary encoders - right hand is also tap tempo/left hand is pressing makes for secondary
- parameter control
- 6x FX select buttons
- Mic/Aux input section:
- 1x pot
- 1x on/off button
- 1x assign to headphones button
- Audio Interface - 24bit at 44.1/48KHz:
- 2x master outs (L/R) on balanced TRS jacks
- 2x booth outs (L/R) on phono jacks
- 2x aux input (L/R) on phono jacks
- 1x aux gain pot
- 1x direct monitoring switch
- 1x mic input on TRS jack
- 1x mic gain pot
- 2x headphone outputs (1x TRS jack & 1x 3.5mm jack) both can be used simultaneously)
- 1x Master/cue switch to change signal going out of Booth outputs between cue & main
- 1x direct monitoring output - bypasses the software and passes mic/aux input straight to the main outs
