Official Novation Twitch Owners Thread(?)

Again, when you first start it, NOTHING is synced. You NEED to press the sync on the channel that you wish to be the Master tempo FIRST and then hit it again on the slave deck. After that, whatever track you bring in, you just have to hit the sync on that deck to get that track to sync whatever is still playing in the live mix (this is if you turned the sync off before loading the next track). Now, if you didn't disengage sync, whatever you load into the deck would be tempo matched but not grid matched. If you want to grid match it, you need to hit the Sync button again and it will snap the slave track to the grid of the master tempo track. This of course will cause a jump in audio because you're SNAPPING GRIDS rather than nudging the track (you can disable the snapping of grids altogether by going into the settings and switch to SIMPLE SYNC mode which will just match tempos).

**** Let me make this SUPER clear: If you have SMART SYNC turned on in the settings, hitting that SYNC button on the slave deck while the two decks are synced will ALWAYS cause a jump in audio because you're NOT NUDGING the track, you're SNAPPING GRIDS (aka, jumping the grid of the slave to match the grid of the master, keyword JUMPING). There's a BIG difference between tempo syncing and beatgrid syncing ****

You also have to remember, if you are putting a new track on the MASTER tempo channel, that is NO LONGER THE MASTER TEMPO because it's NOT the channel that is currently in the live mix. Whatever is playing last becomes the MASTER and whatever deck that you put a new track on becomes the SLAVE.

So, let's make this super clear:

Let's say you start it off with Deck A being MASTER and Deck B being the SLAVE. When you put a new track in Deck A, Deck A now becomes the SLAVE and Deck B becomes the MASTER. Reason being, Deck B still has something playing in the live mix thus the logic is that you don't want to change the tempo of what's currently playing and just want to match what you're bringing in to match whatever is currently playing NO MATTER WHAT CHANNEL the currently playing track is on.

So, with all that in mind, you might be wondering to yourself "Ok, then why the heck would I want to use Smart Sync then if the thing will just tempo sync when I play the incoming track and if I hit the sync button, it's going to jump in audio because it's snapping the beatgrids?" Well, if you have Itch set up to play tracks on load (either play from the beginning of the track or from the first cue point, you can select this in the settings), THAT is where the Smart Sync will be theoretically useful since it will match both the tempo and the grid of the incoming track and play it on load (basically, you should not be hitting that Sync button at all unless there's a drift, and if there's a drift, it's still better to use the good ole nudging rather than hitting the sync button).

Here, seriously, just go and read the manual: http://serato.com/manuals/itch/softw...ids#smart_sync

Ciao, io uso Twitch da circa un paio di mesi e mi trovo molto bene, okkio al mapping di Traktor che fa pena! Ad oggi non ho trovato un tsi decente...
Altro consiglio, se devi suonare in un locale senza mixer o senza scheda audio comprati un mixerino da palco per amplificare il segnale.

but in traktor the Audio6 or Audio2 Solve the gain problem or not?

I agree and I believe you miss understand the problem I am having. I am having to press sync again on the master as this is the only way I can get the slave to sync. Pressing sync on the slave channel does NOTHING, it doesn't even match the tempo of the master. So each mix I have to press sync on the master which syncs.the master to the slave, causes an audio jump on the master output and sounds bad. At no point does pressing sync on the slave do anything. Maybe I am not explaining myself properly

thanks for the reply. I appreciate what you are saying about Sync but to me to have to press the sync button (on the channel that is playing) to mix into the next record seems odd, both sync buttons are actaully already on but I have to press it again (on the channel playing) because the one I want to mix into the "master" will not sync up. It is the exact reverse of how traktor does it. also when you press sync on the "master" channel even though its alreayd on and lit it up it causes the "master" channel to jump the audio whilst it sync's with the track I want to mix in. It seems odd to me, its the same as if I was djing with vinyl I would have to adjust the pitch of the master track to mix in the second track, you would never do it, you always adjust the pitch of the record you want to mix in if that makes sense. I must be doing something wrong.

ableton options are huge, just need to get my head round it a bit first.

I am still getting sync issues and I believe maybe my explanation wasn't clear enough.

everything is beat gridded well and the sync button lights up but to get the 2 tracks in sync I have to press sync on the channel I already have playing out. so I have to sync the record currently playing to the one I want to mix in which is the reverse of how it should be!

anyway I am going to try it out with the traktor mapping and may just have to sack Itch off desite loving the performance modes.

has anyone used Twitch with Ableton yet? if so whats its like and are their any other good vid tutorials other than the novation one?

overall (despite the sync issue) I am loving the twitch!f