Your Ideal S8 Setup

Rly?
Allright, then I also play Electro House, even thou I can't hear any parts of House

The S8 seems to divide the Traktor Users. A friend (Timecode-User, plays HipHop&Rap) and another friend (S4, but used to work with CDJs) also diddnt like the S8, but both of them thought I would love it
Well, the S8 IS the next gen, and it is for Guys like us, right ?

 

In my opinion Electro house was a progression from late 90's hard house, if you do a search on youtube for Tinrib records you will see there's definitely a flavour of early house in there, but also big synth leads and hard drums like Electro house.......

Not all house is handbag

Can't believe I used to play that stuff lol.....

 

Also with that Hellcat tune, you can hear early Acid in there, check the riff out at 2:30 and compare on youtube it to T99 - Anasthasia from 1991

 

well, the riff maybe the only thing in common, eh?
nah, everything is coming back, and Must Die knows what he's doing. Personally I'd rave so hard on Hellcat, I'd think it's the 90s

anyway, we're getting pretty off topic and should get another thread for that kind memories and comparing genre

 

so i did my little detective work and the S8 seems to be slightly longer than my turntable case. which means it is not too big of a stretch to put between my stanton str8150's. so that right there is my setup.... i still consider myself a mostly hip hop dj but i play everything. the unit work well for me because of the innovations you can add. freeze mode, cue point juggling, tone play. a lot of my fellow djs in the area are turning their nose up at it as a button pushing toy however i see more gains than losses with this unit. i mean most hiphop dj's are using dicers anyways

 

it's good to see, not every HipHop DJ is treating the S8 as a Toy
imo the S8 is a awesome solution if you are working with vinyl. Get it, make an incredible routine, tape it, up it to youtube, and hater's gonna get soft
even thou the Slicerfunction got a little bit late, and implemented by others than NI...
Time for a 2.7 or 3.0 release.

 

I will sync mine up with either Maschine or my Ipad running Nord Beat and Nord Drum 1 for some basic beats and live drum
with Nord Drum 2, Roland Octapad spd-30, play my Roland Jupiter -80 and sing over the top with an AKG C520 headset condensor.

i can sing either direct into S8 or go into my Drawmer 1969 ME tube pre or Rolands Vocal performer, Roland Aira VE-3 or TC Helicon Voice Live Rack.

I play mostly electronic music including EDM, Pop, Swedish House and even Urban/Hip Hop.

Once out of the S8 I can go into the Drawmer 1973 stereo FET comp and use the parallel compression to sound huge.

I am almost 60 and the world is mine.

I'm going get me some fine b#$%%ches.

Cheers

 

My current setup is centered around the XONE: DB4 mixer, so my perfect Traktor S8(ish) setup would require that NI makes a version that is minus the mixer.... just the sides to flank my DB4.