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Numark Mixtrack 2 Free Software4/18/2021
This 2-channel controller has all the inputs and outputs youll need for your headphones, speakers, and a mic.The jogs are responsive and tight, the transport controls simple and reliable, and the volume, EQ and faders all do exactly what they should with no surprises.
Its well built for the price, it looks nice, the jogs remain excellent, its easy to use, and its now more tightly integrated with the supplied software. The addition of a simple sampler and drum pads are a welcome nod to current trends. Youll need to provide an audio cable to connect an amp and speakers to its RCA outputs, a pair of headphones, and a Windows or Mac laptop. This is actually fast and easy, and theres no need to register a licence or anything like that. Once the software is downloaded and installed, you plug in the unit and open the software (Serato DJ Intro) and youre ready to go. It is truly the simplest setting up procedure out there, and credit is due to Serato and Numark for making it so. Still a practical size and grounded on four sturdy rubber feet, its appreciably slimmer than its predecessor. And while it is still made of plastic and clearly built to a budget, its appearance is a lot nicer. The brushed black surface and metallic-painted casing make it feel more expensive than it is. The new, lower-profile bevelled top and curved bottom appear almost Apple-like, and the jogwheels are sturdy and attractive, albeit slightly smaller than those on the original Mixtracks. As far as inputs and outputs go, it has two headphones sockets (18 and 14), an 18 microphone jack socket with independent volume control, a USB, and twin RCA outs for amp and speakers. Its not a big deal, but Im curious as to why they chose to put the headphones socket on the right-hand side rather than the left, as most headphones are wired from the left-hand ear cup, meaning your lead is more likely to dangle diagonally across the controller in use. There are no individual channel gain controls or VU meters (the software has autogain anyway, but still), which again is as the original Mixtrack. Each channel has just a three-band EQ, cue buttons for headphones and a load button. Small LEDs indicate whether youre browsing a file or a folder. ![]() Meanwhile, the edges work for nudging, or fine-adjusting. Theres the ubiquitous sync button, a cue button, a playpause, and a stutter button, which is a variant of cue (sometimes called CUP on other controllers). Each deck has a rather short pitch fader, topped with CDJ-style and pitch bend buttons. There are four knobs at the top of each deck, which control the effects, and eight dual-colour backlit performance pads, which are used for cues, samples, loops and effects. So really, how well a controller performs is to a large extent a factor of the software provided with it. In this case, the software provided Serato DJ Intro is perfectly OK for basic DJing, and will serve any new DJ well for the time it takes them to get to their their first few performances. Lord knows learning to DJ can be complicated enough without worrying about technical set-ups and endless configuration pages. Serato DJ Intro has one, very simple config page, that you probably wont even have to look at). You browse using the big central knob (it integrates fine with iTunes, so all your playlists and songs are just there), hit Load A or Load B to put a track on a deck, and hit Play to start it playing.
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