Native Instruments has released an excellent free video tutorial series (above) on Maschine, their hardware/software music production workstation.

The Maschine tutorials cover:

• An overview
• Live recording
• Step recroding
• FX and automation
• Sampling with Maschine
• Beat slicing
• Scenes & performing
• Exporting audio from maschine
• Software sequencer integration
• Using Maschine as a MIDI controller
• Controlling Traktor Pro with Maschine
• Controlling Ableton Live with Maschine

This is a video guide to getting started with Traktor Pro.

If you’ve got your own tips or tricks for setting up Traktor Pro, leave a comment below!

via eangolden:

This video will walk new djs through the steps required to get going with Traktor Pro and a midi controller including setting up a sound card for headphone listening and setting up a controller for the first time.

How to Create Dynamic Buildups In Traktor Pro

via eangolden:

This is a technique we have used in our VCI-100SE mappings that combine 3 effects to make dynamic buildups on the fly. more information can be found here: http://www.djtechtools.com/2009/08/13/how-to-create-exciting-build-ups-in-traktor/Download the TSI file here: http://www.djtechtools.com/midi-map/

This tutorial covers the mapping designed by Ean Golden for the Vestax VCi-100 and Traktor Pro.

You can download and try the mapping for free here.

Ean Golden demonstrates creating pitched drum fills in Traktor Pro.

via eangolden:

Here is technique using the ECHO effect in Traktor Pro version 1.1 and the VSI-100 SE mapping file number 1_8

Ean Golden will Rock You (Tutorial and TSI)

Here is a walk through tutorial on how eangolden created the We Will Rock You routine last month.

Download the TSI file and mp3 files files with cue points for Traktor Pro here.

NAMM 2009 **NEW** Vestax VCM-400 DJ Controller

via agiprodj:

DJ Ty gets a quick demo of the recently announced Vestax VCI-400 at the 2009 NAMM Show.

It looks like this was so new that even the Vestax rep wasn’t completely up to speed on it yet.

Here are 2 new techniques you can try out in Traktor Pro with your own MIDI controller, including on the fly loop recording and re-pitching samples.

The TSI files used in this video can be downloaded for free from the DJTechTools site.

DJ Tech Tools’ break down of how the Fader FX theory has been applied to the VCI-100SE layout for Traktor Pro.

More details here.

Impressions from the Native Instruments Traktor Pro Launch Party at Watergate, Berlin.

Featured DJs include Barem, Butane, John Spring, Pan Pot, Matthew Dear, Richie Hawtin and Troy Pierce.

This is a demo of the Dj TechTools mapping of the VCi-100 with Traktor Pro.

This mapping matches the special edition controller made by Vestax for Dj TechTools earlier this year.

This video provides an introduction to DJing with Traktor Pro.

It will walk you through the transport section where you will learn how to work with pause, play, cue points, hot cues, loops and grids.

A quick look at the new Native Instruments Traktor Pro by the guys at DJ Tech Tools.

Native Instruments has announced Traktor Pro and Traktor Scratch Pro, the next versions of its digital DJ solutions with MIDI and time-code control.

The latest Traktor generation offers a better creative workflow, an updated user interface, powerful sound shaping features, advanced syncing and control functions and more.

Traktor Pro will be available from November 1st for a suggested retail price of $229 / 199 EUR at authorized dealers and in the NI Online Shop, with Traktor Scratch Pro priced at $669 / 599 EUR. Customers who own both Traktor Scratch and Traktor 3 will receive a free software update to Traktor Pro.

Details:

Traktor Pro introduces a new, optimized GUI. The concise, completely scalable screen layout with clear, high-contrast elements results in an interface that is convenient to work with under all conditions.

All crucial performance functions like cueing and looping have been refined for intuitive handling in a performance situation, while extensive cover artwork support including a “Crate Flick” feature lets you visually browse your music library.

Advanced syncing functions in Traktor Pro give you more time to focus on the creative aspects of  performance. Precise beat grids are now created automatically for all tracks, and the “Sync Lock” function makes sure that even multiple decks and tempo-synced effects never drift out of sync.

New “quantized navigation” lets you seamlessly jump between loops, cue points or any other part of a track without missing a beat.

Traktor Pro also opens up vast new possibilities for creative sound manipulation, with a powerful performance effects section. Two separate multi-effect units offer more than twenty studio-quality algorithms, from a full range of standard DJ effects to a wide selection of unusual effect types like “Mulholland Drive”, “Iceverb” and “Reverse Grain”. Up to six effects can be chained and freely assigned to any number of decks at any time, and can be synced to tempo.

Traktor Pro comes with mappings for all relevant DJ controllers on the market. New “MIDI modifier” functionality provides even finer performance control, allowing for dynamic and multi-layered knob and fader assignments, on-the-fly adjustments of parameter resolution and much more. Furthermore, new extended MIDI sync features make it easy to seamlessly integrate outboard gear like drum machines and software sequencers into the mix.

Starting in 2009, all new releases on Beatport will come with TRAKTOR metadata, letting you add newly purchased tracks to your collection without any additional preparation time.

Further improvements in Traktor Pro and Traktor Scratch Pro include incremental track search, portable collection and setting files, dedicated key correction and filter sections for each deck, an included library of loops, FX sounds and scratch files as well as full compatibility with the latest 64-bit Mac OS X and Windows operating systems.

Native Instruments is also launching a series of videos that feature Hip Hop legend Grandmaster Flash and techno icon Richie Hawtin in conversations about their personal perspectives on music, DJing and technology. The first episodes are available now on the dedicated TRAKTOR PRO microsite, with further installments scheduled for release in the coming weeks.