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What's up this is Felix da Housecat. I used to play on vinyl in the 80s, and then I was rocking the CDJs in the 90s, and now I'm on TRAKTOR. I use two X1s and the DJM 900 and I plug and play in every club with this mixer, no soundcard needed whatsoever.
So why the X1s as decks? It's pretty much the most powerful *** out there. I always use four decks, each of these babies controls two decks. So when it comes to mixing old school records with new beats, it used to be impossible, but now with TRAKTOR I can produce on the fly. All the magic is pretty much right here.
One of the essentials of DJing is playing the right track at the right time. With the X1s I can drop in a Nile Rogers riff over the top at the touch of one button.
And while I'm doing that, I can drop in a Chic vocal on top -- it's that easy. Some people play edits prepared in the studio. I pretty much do that *** live. On the fly. In the moment.
Sometimes I have tracks I haven't prepared, and they might need a little nudge or they might go off a bit in the mix, so that's where the touch strip comes in. A couple of flicks of my finger, and we're locked in.
The X1 makes it easy to browse through my playlist and my folders. This *** is touch sensitive. As soon as I choose a track, I'm back in business.
I like to mess around with all my loops. I can also use the touch strip to control the loop size, and jump between them. I can even move loops while staying in sync. I'm just gonna move this vocal sample right now while still in sync.
I have the flux mode button remapped to give me two pages of hot cues. Basically I'm a hot cue fan. I like to have the juicy moments ready at my fingertips. This is the part where they just lose control, they just go hype. These are the good bits -- this is the moment of truth.
I like to get real funky with my filters. Using the strip rather than the *** allows me to bring the filter back and neutral just by lifting one finger. If I really want to get crazy, the X1 allows me to assign four effects per deck. I can even control effects on the strip.
It's like my new secret weapon. I'm Felix da Housecat and this is my TRAKTOR set up. You can catch me at space on Fridays in Ibiza, at Clandestine. Peace.