Traktor S4 Mixing Tutorial



Basic Mixing: basic transport controls and mixing principles on the S4. Prepping Music: How to beat grid tracks in the S4, set cue points, store loops and fine tune SYNC settings. Advanced Mixing: How to fine tune the pitch faders and other manual beat matching tips. Basic Effects: routing and trouble shooting. TRAKTOR DJ Equipment. TRAKTOR’s DJ equipment lets you build a setup tailored to your DJ style. Portable, club, and effects controllers comprise our range of DJ equipment for creative DJing freedom. TRAKTOR’s DJ equipment seamlessly integrates with TRAKTOR PRO. Traktor Pro S4 – External Mixing Mode. Traktor Pro S4 is an integrated DJ package that uses the S4 controller and its internal audio device. So in general you will use the internal mixing mode of Traktor where the different audio channels are mixed together inside the software. Part 3: Broadcasting in MP3 format with Traktor Kontrol S4. Part 3 explains how to stream your mix in MP3 format from Traktor Kontrol S4. We will use the streaming service Listen2MyRadio to broadcast the mix. You can adapt this tutorial to other controller/audio interface setup if you are using the internal mixing mode of Traktor.

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Traktor S4 Mixing Tutorial

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The Traktor Kontrol S4 Mk3 controller has got an awesome feature that lets you individually assign Mixer FX to your channels. With eight mixer FX to choose from, that means you can come up with some cool tricks without having to resort to using the more complicated effects engines in Traktor.

Tutorial

In this demo, I take a drum loop, a breakdown loop and an acapella and demo how you can use a different Mixer FX effect on each. It sounds awesome- but there are countless variations of effects and countless use cases. Let us know what you come up with!

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Native Instruments product specialist and Dubspot Instructor DJ Endo concludes this three-part series of video tutorials looking at the various features and performance possibilities of Native Instruments new Traktor Kontrol S4, the world’s first software and hardware DJ system. In part one, Endo offered an overview of the S4 system with an up-close, detailed description of the mixer and decks part two, he touched on sample decks and deffects. For part three, he sinks deeper into advanced features including Loop Recorder and cue points, along with using the snap and quantize buttons, shows you how to make live edits and live looping without skipping an audio.

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Mike Henderson aka DJ Endo is a DJ and product specialist for Native Instruments and lives in Brooklyn. Listen to his mixes on SoundCloud, follow him on Twitter, & find him on Facebook.