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Native Instruments' new Traktor DJ Controller: 'X1 of a kind'

It’s been over five years since Native Instruments last launched a significant piece of new hardware for its Traktor DJ platform and we were starting to wonder whether we’d ever see a new Kontroller again. That dry spell is finally over though, as NI launches the third version of its Traktor X1 controller – and it looks like the most significant update yet.

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