I edited my post, but just to clarify.. setting multiple beat-grids is not the same as warping / time-stretching via Z-Plane. You always have a jump or change in tempo with multiple beat-grids.
If you're syncing and quantization is enable you probably won't notice this jump in tempo much, but if the disparity in tempo change is large, you will notice. Torq is actually warping / stretching the music in time without audible glitching or sound quality loss.
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I use Traktor 2.5.3. It's stable as hell, I can change key well over 50% with no artifacts, and change BPM at least as much. I can synch both decks to a master BPM (yeah, Torq, Traktor's been able to do this for about 5 years). It has stable and workable NMX recording (basically a kind of mega macro that records everything you do and then replays it while it saves as a wav file; it cuts down enormously on the resources it would take to record audio on the same PC you're playing from). No one will make me buy an M-Audio hardware product for it to be able to work.
But I wouldn't play out with Traktor 3x; it was never stable and too buggy. Except for the FX, I can do more with 2.5.3 than I ever could with T3x (though most DJs hate the ergonomics and workflow of T3x & TPro),and more reliably. Two decks working beats the hell out of four decks crashed.
And Traktor Pro is a POS that was laughably not ready for primetime.
Same here. I read the feature set and the workflow looked great. But they're pretty much making people pay for a beta. A survey of the current NI Traktor forums is enough to send a prospective buyer screaming into the night.
It's very disappointing, but sadly not very surprising; NI has only continued the to broaden the disparity between what they promise with Traktor and what they're delivering.
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