Novation TWITCH is a DJ controller with a completely new take on DJing. It has Touchstrips to navigate tracks and you can slice-up your beats and mix them back together – totally on the fly. TWITCH has a built in audio interface which is absolutely rock-solid with headphone, booth and main outputs.
Take hold of your music: TWITCH has Touchstrips; simply grab your tracks and swipe them backwards and forwards like a touchscreen. The performance modes create totally new ways to manipulate beats and breaks. The control surface - with its 2 x 8 large Triggerpads and Fader FX - opens up awesome possibilities for digital DJs and the new breed of Controllerists.
Key Features
TWITCH can put your music in time, leaving you free to get creative
- Serato ITCH software can beat match tracks so you can focus on performing
- TWITCH gives you hands-on control of some powerful performance tools
Touchstrips for navigating tracks
- Swipe tracks backwards and forwards as if you were touching the screen
- You can instantly ‘Drop’ into a tune at any point in the track
‘Slicer’ Performance Mode
- Slicer allows you to chop-up beats in time and re-arrange them on the fly
- 2 x 8 large Triggerpads let you to play eight rolling beat slices in any order
Tough and compact with a 2 in 4 out high-quality audio interface
- Designed for gigging: Compact casing, bus powered with LED buttons
- Balanced outputs, ultra-reliable audio/MIDI drivers and microphone input
Master FX and ‘Fader FX Mode’
- Add different effects to either or both channels with TWITCH's FX section
- Use both channel faders for super-fast FX moves and tricks
Trigger Hot Cue Points and 2 different Loop Modes
- 8 large Triggerpads can fire off 8 cue-points anywhere in your track
- Trigger 8 different loop lengths and save them with your performance
TWITCH is designed for performing, made tough and compact enough to carry from gig to gig. It has an aluminium top panel and is small enough to be carried with your laptop. Its modest size means it will slot into tight spaces in DJ booths and on stage.
- Hard-wearing metal surface: tough enough for gigging
- Compact design: small and light enough to hand-carry with your laptop
- Fully bus powered: easy to set up and no need for additional power supply
- LED backlit buttons: essential for performing in dark environments
Audio Interface
TWITCH includes an ultra-reliable 2 in 4 out USB audio interface with high-quality/super low noise main and headphone outputs so it they can be connected directly to large PA systems as well as home audio set-ups with zero hum or noise. There is also a microphone input for vocalists or MCs which you can run through the effects in ITCH.
- Ultra-reliable 2 in 4 out USB-audio interface: plug straight into monitors, mixer or amp
- High quality outputs which eliminate hum and noise
- Microphone input: with independent analogue gain control for vocalists/MCs
- Second stereo input: TWITCH has an aux input with its own analogue gain for iPods or other sound sources
- Custom audio/MIDI drivers: ultra-low latency audio/MIDI drivers by Novation
- Outputs 24bit at sample rates of 44.1/48KHz
Mixing tracks and FX
Mixing tracks
ITCH can beat sync two tracks so they are in perfect time. Or, you can beat match them manually with the Touchstrips, swiping the track backwards and forwards – just like grabbing and moving it on a touchscreen. You can also use them to speed-up or slow down the track as if you were nudging forwards or backwards.
Mixer with Fader FX
TWITCH operates in a similar way to a conventional DJ mixer. Its layout includes typical DJ mixer controls: channel faders, tone controls, trim, and a cross-fader. TWITCH also gives you total control of ITCH’s on-board FX. However, you can also assign FX to both Decks' faders, as well as rotary knobs in the FX section. This enables the kind of quick-fingered FX trickery that can only be pulled off with fader movements.
Slice-up your tracks
‘Performance Modes’ let you get hands-on with ITCH’s most powerful tools. The ‘Slicer Mode’ on TWITCH uses ITCH’s powerful ‘Beatgrids’ system to chop sections of your track into eight equal slices. You can then re-arrange these on the fly without falling out of time, creating totally new grooves.
In Hot Cues mode you can set 8 cue-points and re-start the track at any of those points, allowing you to jump around your track at the touch of a button.
The 8-button grid can also be used to trigger loops of different lengths using Autoloop & Loop Roll modes. Autoloops can be saved with the track so you can rehearse routines and load them on stage.
Twitch comes with Serato ITCH – powerful DJ software that only works with select hardware controllers. As well as being rock-solid and simple to use, ITCH has totally new performance tools that take digital DJing to the next level. TWITCH has been developed with Serato to put ITCH’s full potential right at your fingertips. It also maps to other DJ software like Traktor and Ableton.
TWITCH comes with Serato's powerful ITCH DJ software, but it is also a standard MIDI controller and audio interface that works with all major DJ software including Traktor and Ableton Live.
Ableton Live
As MIDI controller, TWITCH will map to Ableton Live so you can launch clips, control devices, channel levels, crossfader and more. It also has a built in audio interface making it the perfect compact Ableton DJ controller.
Novation has created an application that allows users to set up and use the TWITCH to control parameters in Ableton Live (and any other MIDI compatible DJ software).
The purpose of this software is to receive ‘raw’ MIDI messages generated by the TWITCH hardware and ‘translate’ them into MIDI messages that can be learned to parameters in Ableton Live.
If you are a Max MSP user you can open and edit the source code to edit and tweak to your own preference.
Traktor PRO
Powerful 2 and 4 deck mappings for Traktor PRO can be downloaded. All the controls you need to perform have been mapped to the Touchstrips, knobs, faders and buttons on TWITCH. A free Traktor PRO overlay is included in the TWITCH box which labels what each control does. Simply place it on TWITCH to transform it into a Traktor controller with a difference.
Hardware Specifications
Mixer section:
- 8x pots: EQ and trim
- 2x channel faders
- 1x replaceable crossfader
- 2x Continuous rotary encoders
- 2x headphone assign buttons - enables respective deck in the cue mix
- 2x Fader FX assign buttons
Master section:
- 4x pots
- Headphone level
- Master/cue mix
- Booth level
- Master output
- Controls per deck:
- Touchstrip with swipe and drop modes
- Continuous rotary encoder for pitch +/-
- Cue button
- Play/Pause button
- 8x Large Triggerpads
- 4x performance mode selector buttons
- 2x Beatgrid buttons
- 2x sync/keylock buttons
Master FX section:
- 1x Pot
- 2x continuous rotary encoders - right hand is also tap tempo/left hand is pressing makes for secondary parameter control
- 6x FX select buttons
Mic/Aux input section:
- 1x pot
- 1x on/off button
- 1x assign to headphones button
Audio Interface - 24bit at 44.1/48KHz:
- 2x master outs (L/R) on balanced TRS jacks
- 2x booth outs (L/R) on phono jacks
- 2x aux input (L/R) on phono jacks
- 1x aux gain pot
- 1x direct monitoring switch
- 1x mic input on TRS jack
- 1x mic gain pot
- 2x headphone outputs (1x TRS jack & 1x 3.5mm jack) both can be used simultaneously)
- 1x Master/cue switch to change signal going out of Booth outputs between cue & main
- 1x direct monitoring output - bypasses the software and passes mic/aux input straight to the main outs
Audio performance
Key Performance Figures
- Real World ADC Dynamic Range: 102 dB (A-weighted)
- Real World DAC Dynamic Range: 100 dB (A-weighted)
- Chipset ADC/DAC Dynamic Range: 114 dB (A-weighted)
- Latency (Minimum Buffer Size): 77 Samples
- Microphone Inputs
- Dynamic Range (A-Weighted): 102dB
- Frequency Response: 20Hz - 20kHz +/- 0.1 dB
- THD+N: 0.01% (measured at 1kHz with a 20Hz/22kHz bandpass filter)
- Noise: EIN >120dBu (measured with 50dB of gain with 150 Ohm termination (20Hz/22kHz bandpass filter)
- Maximum Input level @ Minimum gain for 0 dBFS: +4 dBuLine Inputs
- Dynamic Range (A-Weighted): 102dB
- Frequency Response: 20Hz - 20kHz +/- 0.1dB
- THD+N: < 0.002% (measured with 0dBFS input and 22Hz/22kHz bandpass filter)
- Noise: -92dBu (22Hz/22kHz bandpass filter)
Analogue Audio Outputs (¼" TRS)
- Electronically balanced output
- Maximum Output Level (0dBFS): +7.0dBu
- THD+N: 0.0075% (-1dBFS output, 20Hz/22kHz bandpass filter)
Analogue Audio Outputs (RCA phono)
- Unbalanced output
- Maximum output level (0dBFS): +7.0dBu
- THD+N: 0.0075% (-1dBFS output, 20Hz/20kHz bandpass filter)Headphone Outputs
- Frequency Response: 20Hz-20KHz +/- 0.1dB
- Dynamic Range: 102dB
- SNR (A-weighted): 102dB
- Maximum Output into 32R: +3dBu (-1.4dBV)
- Power into 32R: 24mW
- Output Impedance: < 7Ohms
- Load Impedance: > 24Ohms
Dimensions
- 17.12 W x 4.72H x 13.58L
Weight
- 6.4 lbs
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