They light up brightly – not retina burningly so, but they give off enough of a glow to allow you to see in daylight as well as behind a dark DJ booth. Perhaps it’s just a little squished for really going to town with the 4×4 section as if it were a pad controller, but it’s spaced well enough that you won’t worry about tripping up on nearby buttons. The buttons on the Xone K2 are immediately gratifying a reassuring clicky action with very short travel means that you can place a lot of confidence in them mission critical functions like cue juggling and transport. I was a little surprised not to see any Serato love, and I double checked to make sure I hadn’t missed a configuration utility akin to the controller editors frequently seen bundled with other developers’ products, but keeping the MIDI assignments on the unit’s physical controls is probably a good idea to keep the layering the K2 is capable of manageable.
#XONE K2 TRAKTOR MAPPING DOWNLOADS DRIVERS#
There are multiple Traktor Pro mappings, for two decks, four decks, a Native Instruments Traktor Kontrol X1 emulator (more on that later), an Ableton Live map, blank overlays ready for printing, and of course drivers for everything. Digitally speaking A&H have made a real effort to ensure that despite the flexibility that seems central to the K2’s design, users that just want to plug and play are catered for.
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You can use an RJ45 cable, but I don’t advise experimenting with plugging the Xone K2 into networks!) for connecting multiple K2s together, or a K2 to enabled A&H mixers, and a software disk. It’s great that it’s included.Īs well as the expected USB cable there’s an RJ45 cable (X-Link uses RJ45 pinout, but the connections are customised. I’d have preferred to have seen some sort of riser system built into the case that can be removed and allows a Xone K2 to sit right in the cut between two other pieces of equipment, or even possibly a built in kick stand system, but I’m splitting hairs a little bit here. My only real reservation with the case is that when using it as a stand, the sheer amount of padding and protection it’s equipped with adds quite a lot of bulk and means that setting it up completely flush with the rest of your equipment isn’t really possible. For a start, there’s a particularly well padded carry case that doubles up as a stand to raise the K2 to turntable/mixer height. The Xone K2 has an excellent selection of value adders in the box. Allen & Heath beat pretty much everyone to the punch with their Xone K2 announcement at last year’s BPM, and they’ve had the DJ community on tenterhooks since. I don’t know whether this is something to do with the hive mind that people are talking more and more about since Twitter became a ‘thing’, but the amount of controllers that are pointing towards the exact same workflow, all coming out within a timeframe too condensed to allow us to infer much in the way of copycat tactics, is staggering.
Link: Allen & Heath – Price: $299/€249/£199 IntroductionĪh, timing.
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