Concept: Slice to Remix Deck

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Concept: Slice to Remix Deck
Posted on: 13.07.2013 by Johnsie Kingrea


What's up everybody. I was up till 5am working on this concept. After reading the old DJTT "String Theory" I got inspired to pursue an idea I have had for a while. The idea is to be able to chop a track like an MPC into 16 individual hits that can be drummed out and rearranged on the fly. I know you can do this with a Twitch or a properly placed cue points but I wanted to the freedom do it anytime and then save the kit if I liked it. Another concept I wished to implement was the ability to chop a bunch of cells but alter the pitch so you could play different melodies. Unfortunately this functionality is still locked for the Remix Decks.

If you'd like to test this out here is what you need.


1) Traktor 2.6.2 + Midi Pipe (free download) + Novation Dicer
2) Dicer midi pipe file and Dicer Remix Deck.tsi (https://www.dropbox.com/sh/h55l0a3u46pds7u/xbpJFk7Lb-)
3) Open Dicer midi pipe file and go to midi in on the right menu, make sure dicer is selected as the input
4) Import the Dicer Remix Deck.tsi and in the controller manager for your input select midi port
5) Make sure Deck B is Track Deck and Deck D is a Remix Deck
6) Go to the Move menu in the advanced tab of Deck B and ensure that Move is set to BeatJump (not Loop, Loop in or Loop out)
7) Now you should be able to load track into Deck B, hold button 2 (2 dots) on the Dicer, press button 1 (1 dot) and it should slice your track to the remix deck.

Let me know if you have any questions. This is still a working concept but i'll try help as much as possible and i'm going to work on getting compatibility for other controllers as well.
Hermine Lally
14.07.2013
This kinda is badass. It should be a standard feature. I appreciate the flexibility of Traktor, but wish they would focus more on expanding and refining the capabilities of the software, instead of trying to constantly shove new hardware down our throats.

My Audio 6 interface and TSP control records had been collecting dust for over a year until they unlocked the Remix Decks. I had been working with Serato/Ableton/Maschine and really wanted something more integrated. Ultimately I've been disappointed with the remix deck functions. They seem so limiting in comparison.

I'm hoping that NI adds follow actions, velocity, auto-chop or at least creates some sort of Maschine bridge. Actually if Ableton just added audio scrub to it's API and merged browsers while using The Bridge it would be perfect.
Mira Sabia
14.07.2013
One thing I noticed in practice while using this is that it can be a bit problematic when you have cells from different slots playing over each other. MPC and Maschine are nice because you can set choke groups so things don't clash with each other.

One option is to manually set each remix deck cell trigger mode to "gated", but this makes playing the slices much less fun and creative if you if you want to just quickly jump between slices without interrupting the flow of the music.

So I thought about sticking in a choke mechanism by adding an option button which will cause triggering of one slot to mute (or stop?) all the other slots. This way you can jump between cells in different slots without them playing on top of each other.

Any other thoughts about this or any other ideas on how to potentially make this more useful? Hoping I can also get around to adding in Stewe's great tip too
Johnsie Kingrea
14.07.2013
Originally Posted by rafiq
Ok, got this up and running with the MF3D. Strong work on coming up with this btw, really great idea. I changed a few things and added the ability to let you choose whether to slice from Deck A or Deck B. I made it so you don't have to choose "beatjump" or set the move size (mapped it to the slice button so that it happens automatically when you initiate slicing.) I also increased the delay in midi pipe to improve reliability (traktor would sometimes not catch the "move" command in time and you'd end up with duplicate slices.)
Will clean up a couple things and try to get a vid up in the next couple days.
Hey man that's awesome! I thought about turning up the midi delay but didn't get a chance to check it out, I thought that might be why Traktor would sometimes have duplicate slices.
Mira Sabia
14.07.2013
Ok, got this up and running with the MF3D. Strong work on coming up with this btw, really great idea. I changed a few things and added the ability to let you choose whether to slice from Deck A or Deck B. I made it so you don't have to choose "beatjump" or set the move size (mapped it to the slice button so that it happens automatically when you initiate slicing.) I also increased the delay in midi pipe to improve reliability (traktor would sometimes not catch the "move" command in time and you'd end up with duplicate slices.)

Will clean up a couple things and try to get a vid up in the next couple days.
Mira Sabia
13.07.2013
I actually already have a mapping for my MF3D which does 8 beat beatslicing (using midi pipe) along with full Deck D remix deck control. Albeit, it slices using cue points instead of slicing to the remix deck. It shouldn't be too hard to merge this with my mapping and make it work though. I'll work on it toevening .
Kellie Myrum
13.07.2013
Love the concept! Thanks for sharing.

Though I'll need to adjust it for use with traktor and loop MIDI. That mean no macro button and recording the slices in real time using couple of modes probably (8, 16, 32 beats).

Still a random thought but I'll definitely give attempt on the MIDIfighter.

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