Traktor 2 upgraders?

Coloured, hi def waveforms. Love em. i was one of the first to upgrade cos I happened to be off work sick on the day it was released 😀

Benny’s right on how the sample decks work. You can even use them with a two channel mixer since T2 lets you run the audio of two decks out of one channel. If you’re still on T1 the sample decks are more of a reason to switch than colored wave forms, but the colored wave forms are very nice to have imo. Plus the zoom in on the wave forms have made gridding songs a little easier on some of those tougher songs.

You’ll find a use for them once you have them to play with. You can throw loops in there too. As for the waveforms, they obviously can’t show you everything that’s going on. There’s no replacement for knowing your tracks.

ellgieff, post: 1882 wrote: What do the sample decks do (given that I can’t use the loop recorder to drop a sample in because I don’t want to give up a channel for it) that can’t be done with the 3rd & 4th decks in TSP?

Just to make sure we’re clear, this is a genuine question. I’m not stirring or trying to wind people up – is there something you can do with the sample decks that I can’t do with a sample loaded to the fourth deck?

Coloured waveforms don’t do that much for me. The waveform I used to read off the record didn’t have no colour :p

To be honest you said this exactly how i wanted to say it…!! 🙂

I don’t dislike the whole sample deck thing as i think its a fantastic idea for people that can put it to good use, but me personally don’t need it yet, and often when i do use samples i often use vinyl samples of samples from old CD’s from years ago.

Phil Morse, post: 1899 wrote: You can have up to four samples per channel you give up and control them independently, so you get more flexibility than just having a sample track loaded on a deck with some cue points pointing at the samples you want to use. You can also record straight into the loop recorder then transfer your recording to a sample deck – whether that’s part of a track or your own voice. So there is the chance to get more creative with them than just dropping samples from a 3rd and/or 4th deck.

I totally understand this, and as i said they sound like a fantastic idea for people that will put it to use. Infact i think it would be brilliant to watch someone use this to potential but i just like a third deck and long blends of tunes with acapellas and added simple effects. But thats my preference 😉

ellgieff, post: 1915 wrote: So I could be running up to 4 samples at once from a single sample deck? I could see doing some exciting things with that, if I had a midi controller mapped to deal with it nicely. Does each of those sample have an independent gain? What about EQ or F/X, could I apply this to just one of the samples?
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@FEP: What help is seeing what the track is doing for you? As in: how does this help you?

Each ‘Sample Deck’ has 4 slots for one shots or loops, each of which has its own independent gain and filter. The deck itself has all the usual deck controls such as EQ, gain, filter, FX etc but that is of course shared between the 4 slots.

Before getting the coloured waveforms I thought they’d just be a nice aesthetic addition, but I actually find them very useful. Mainly because if you load a track without ever having heard it before (not something I recommend of course, hehe) you can tell the structure of the song along with where it’s bass heavy (red or pink) etc. Rather than just seeing how loud it is like you can with the TP1 yellow waves.

Liambo is right, knowing your music is important, but this certainly helps to jog your memory.

Higher def can make it harder to beatgrid, because you can see the actual structure of the beat itself not just the transient marker. The algorithm does seem to be improved though, it’s much better at getting it first time.