Officially DONE with Traktor's Cruise Mode!!!

I use cruise mode every so often. First, once you engage it DO NOT TOUCH THE FADERS. If you touch the faders, it will change the song. You can change the next song that will play by loading it into the non-playing deck if you want just don’t touch the fader. In the settings tab there is a setting to change when the new song will start/how long the fade in/out is. After you deselect cruise mode, the current song will continue to play at full fader volume even if the hardware fader is down.

Basically, if you use cruise mode, the main thing to understand is NEVER TOUCH THE FADERS when you have cruise mode on.

Actually Traktor Cruse mode is quite good you make a playlist load first song turn up fader A and B press play your set.
Like to make changes to the order of songs add a song that you just thought of do it. want to change playlist just go to an other playlist and load a song into the not playing deck and it will continue playing from that playlist.

I used autoplay a lot, but I don’t remember having this problem at all. Strange. If anytime in the next two years I got some spare time on my hands, I will go and give it a whirl.

Greetinx,
C.

I need to dig my MC6000 out of hiding and try this shit out. Done loads of automix on Traktor and never got frustrated. 😉

Greetinx,
C.

Here is what I want cruise mode to do.
‘A’ deck is playing, turn up fader to max. I can live with a maxed out fader. Keeps things easy for software. Then turn on cruise mode. Cruise mode then takes over control of decks A and B with loading tracks and running faders.
The faders are completely disabled in hardware.
Cruise mode can only be disabled while deck A is playing.
When you turn off cruise mode faders default to correspond to their hardware position. (which should be deck A max and the rest minimum).

Coltrane09, post: 44395, member: 2800 wrote: I hear ya. However, I will still need to adjust the Master Volume as I don’t use Traktor’s “limiter”. In my situation, I found that working Traktor without the limiter enabled provided a better sound over the PA.

True on the limiter. Especially with today’s music that is already compressed to the hilt, running it into the blunt end of a limiter is not advisable. So good choice there.

Newportdj Drew, post: 44383, member: 244 wrote: … When you turn off cruise mode faders default to correspond to their hardware position …

Be aware that (as far as I can tell) it isn’t possible for midi to “read” the current location of a fader. Midi is a protocol describing changes. So you need to move it a little bit to create a midi signal to the software to interpret it. I may be wrong, if so one of the midi guru’s around here will certainly correct me, but that is what I think.

It works with motorized faders (on higher end live sound mixers) because the software sends a position signal back to the mixer which then sets the fader to the correct position. DJ mixers don’t have that luxury.

Greetinx,
C.

Used Cross automix feature six times during the last two days (two shows, pre-show, intermission and after-show).
It works like the proverbial charm. Because it was easy listening kinda stuff I didn’t try the synced setting, but what I did use works fine. From the autoplay tab you can directly and on the fly change the crossfade time (this is a two or three click action in settings in Traktor I think), shuffle mode and something else (forgot).

If you have to tracks loaded in two decks you can tell it what deck to start with. I moved faders and stuff, nothing happened.

Smooth as silk.

Greetinx,
C.

In my humble opinion it’s more than a “not bad bit of software”. Those guys are really fast-tracking to some nasty stuff (how does flexible beatgridding, beatmatching to beat, word AND sentence levels, harmonic key changing AND harmonic key matching and stacked waveforms grab you)? Just for starters. And all the usual stuff (4 decks, 2 of which can be set to sample decks (or maybe even all 4, not sure really) and one of the best tested harmonic key analyzers.

Admittedly it is a different workflow and I am sure it’s lacking in some respects for a certain genre DJ’s. For me, being mainly mobile with the odd club/bar gig in between (excellent sync/import/export options to/from RekordBox!), it does what I need it to do and more. I hardly ever use sample decks, but from those I know that do the ones in Cross DJ are pretty good. I don’t use FX much, they are to me … well … effects, not to be used lightly LOL, but I haven’t done a fierce comparison between the number and quality of FX between Cross and Traktor.

And, the best part, at 49,99 US, it’s a steal :).

To answer your question:
http://www.mixvibes.com/compatible-controllers
And you’ll find the S4 under the Native Instruments logo.

Greetinx,
C.