Footswitch for Traktor Kontrol S4

Head down to your local guitar/keyboard shop and ask for a foot switch. Any one will do, they all do the same thing, however contruction and feel will vary – I’ve seen cheap plasticy models with a soft feel all the way to full metal Marshall stompboxes which need smashing to switch. Just ask the guitar guys – they should know their stuff.

Also, I think that the footswitch controls the loop recorder by default on the S4. You’ll need to neautralise the mapping for that before you can use the footswitch for anything else – just look up “Trakor Bible – Neautralise and Re-map” to see how to do that.

Haha, now that looks pretty cool.

There’s no way you can use the reguluar foot switch control on the S4 with this thing, the S4 takes a 1/4″ TS footswitch input which is a max of one switch.

However, you could plug this thing using the 5-pin DIN MIDI cables from the footswitch(s) to the the S4, making use of the MIDI ports on there. You’ll then have to custom map each footswitch control to what you want it to do on Traktor, but with 12 switches and 2 expression pedals, I think you could have something crazy going with effects there!

Also, check out DubFX on the NI Youtube channel – there’s a good video of him using footswitches to the max there!

(Actually, check out DubFX in general. He’s amazing!)