I’ve been using Twitch with Traktor 2.5 for a couple of weeks now. The Novation mapping works very well, there’s a Traktor overlay included in the box and it’s all fairly intuitive so a quick flick through the getting started guide and you’re away. I haven’t actually used it with Serato (apart to check out the slicer function you mentioned!) but here’s what I can tell you – the “Performance Modes” are now Hot Cues, FX (to assign a deck to one of the 4 FX slots), Loop (similar to the Serato Auto Loop) and Beat Grid (adjust & fine tune grid markers / BPM). The FX section is a little different to match how Traktor handles FX, you can either use the encoders to control the wet/dry of all 4 FX, or bring up one FX deck parameters, and you can’t ‘flip’ one of the FX to the faders like you can with Serato. Like I said I had a quick look at the slicer in Serato and can’t yet see a way to accomplish this in Traktor although I have only been using it a few weeks so there’s lots I don’t yet know.
A couple of cool things I like about Twitch with Traktor – you can have control of 4 decks at once, all the faders/encoders work in pickup mode so there’s no big jumps when swapping decks. Also the touchstrip is a breeze to use when mixing so have found no need for the sync button. One tiny bugbear is that the shift value of the controls isn’t displayed on the overlay although there’s only a few controls this applies to. The only other thing I’d like to do is map the Remix Decks to be controlled by Decks C-D.
Let me know if there’s anything in particular you wish to know. I haven’t yet checked out any other homemade mappings but might take a look into this over the weekend.
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