Traktor

Traktor enables professional music creation for personal use and large crowds, especially for mixing in the clubs, at parties, or in front of large audiences.

With the new sonic sculpting feature, the tool becomes truly iconic, as it manages to deliver an everlasting impression in your audience's mind, all thanks to the stellar sound quality.

Installing and opening Traktor for the first time is a piece of cake. Although the installer is a large file, you won't have any difficulty going through the initial steps. The tool's requirements are pretty basic and after a fairly quick installation, you are allowed to start a 30-minute demo.

During the demo, users can get the first glimpse at Traktor's GUI and functionality. The interface is almost perfect. It is flexible with customizable decks, it has bright colors, the time response for every controller adjustment or change is fast, and the overall touch and feel indicated that you are dealing with a super qualitative product.

Traktor looks really good, and it is a well-known piece of software, especially among professional DJs and musicians. The tool offers MIDI and Ableton links for extending your default setup with additional devices (including Ableton live).

The tool also has more than 40 deck and mixer effects; among the most spectacular ones are (big) reverbs, phasers, or dubby delays, plus some other cool options such as the single-knob or post-fader Mixer FX on each channel for generating quick sound modulations. On top of that, you have easy access (thanks to the central placement) to customizable EQs and filters modeled after industry-standard mixers.

Traktor allows navigating your music collections, queue tracks, add them to different mixing decks, and explore, simultaneously, different sound effects and mixing options by playing with different sonic possibilities — twisting, scratching, Hotcue juggling, or backspins.

To summarize, if you are a DJ or an aspirant musician, you must try Traktor. The tool looks and feels amazing to work with, and on top of that, the last version update (the third generation Traktor) brings the most qualitative sound ever produced by this piece of software — thanks to the Elastique 3 time-stretching and under-the-hood improvements.