tdmusic wrote:Hawtin's set is good (save for the ending, but I'll let that go, maybe you had to be there...) - much better than at Sunday Adventure Club I think - but he needs to stop with the short looping effect. It's such an obvious effect, Traktor isn't that great at doing it (it's not flexible enough with timings and quite hard to use rhythmically the way it's been implemented), and it just distracts from the music and mixing (which is otherwise rather good!). I still enjoy the other looping effect (the pitched up/down trademark one), but this new loop-1/4-of-a-bar-and-then-play-with-the-loop-length effect needs to stop!
The bit where it slips out of time (around 30:00) is a bit dodgy... Bad gridding on Traktor? Whatever, it sounds bad and seems like with the new setup he didn't have a way to manually slip it back in time. Hardly ruins the set though!
Definitely sounds like he's settling in to the technology though, give it a bit of time and I think the results will be quite impressive.
