Sidenote: Tomash Ghz has spun this original project off into his own hardware at While up until now all the features they are using were already integrated into Traktor using the controller manager, they were rather difficult to take advantage of due to, well, the controller manager. To get around this, the guys at DJTT have developed some firmware to tie everything directly into Traktor using what looks like simple MIDI signals within the individual decks. The Master Clock, though, is notoriously untenable due to its own internal instability within Traktor. Tomash Ghz, a member of the DJ TechTools community, put up a post a few months ago explaining how to build a step sequencer directly into Traktor using MIDI clock syncing. I could spend a few paragraphs explaining it but the video they put up does it pretty succinctly, so here’s what the guys from DJTT have to say. After the announcement last year that the MIDI Fighter 3D would be (somewhat controversially) integrated directly Traktor’s Remix decks, it is understandable that the Twister will be outfitted with some really interesting firmware to work alongside it. The team at DJTechTools, unsurprisingly, needed to take it a step further. DJTT has seen a lot of success over the years with their intuitive and elegantly designed MIDI Fighter and its various incarnations and have followed it up with a very deep utility controller in a similar design scheme. It turns out that I’m far from alone. Yesterday’s DJ TechTools announcement for the MIDI Fighter Twister (a name which I really hope they change) is the end result of a very successful design competition through their robust and creative community. I have generally complained about the lack of deep utility controllers available on the market and have expressed excitement at options like the Behringer DV-1 and the X1MK2. Smaller, more boutique companies are able to push the envelope of design and functionality which the bigger guys can’t really risk. Unfortunately, most of their ideas are just copies of the other Great New Idea released six months earlier. Most major manufacturers today are struggling with every controller they release to ignite the market behind their Great New Idea.
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