The Traktor F1 & 2.5 Thread

[photojojo]

I'm curious how the scratching works. Can you toggle on and off individual samples that you want to be able to scratch or is it limited to the whole deck, I.E. if you had 4 samples playing in D all 4 would scratch. Anyone who's played with one know?

You can scratch individual sample slots now.

[rdej47]

Only one sample at a time per slot can be played. So it sounds like the stress on the audio engine won't be any different than it is now. To me this update is really about being able to organize these samples in a way that makes them easier to use as groups.

So if you have 16 loops loaded in the remix deck you'll only be able to play one per slot?

[photojojo]

So if you have 16 loops loaded in the remix deck you'll only be able to play one per slot?

From NI http://www.native-instruments.com/#/...-f1/?page=3309

Each Remix Deck offers four different Slots (columns), ideal for arranging sounds and loops by instrument groups e.g. different drum, bass, percussion loops. Play one sound per column - a total of four samples at any one time.

Isn't that the way Ableton works?

[rdej47]

Okay that does make sense haha. When I thought you could play all 16 loops at once I was wondering how they hell did they code that.

[kooper1980]

don't really have much sample deck usage because I'm in the process of changing my setup completely.

OT - what are you changing to now? Your mixer and 2x X1 set up has turned my head!!

[rdej47]

Someone please invent a sweet stand for all this gear.

[Citizen_Insane]

The whole average thing is kind of a bummer...Traktor is practically built around tight beat grids, it's too bad they can't implement a drifting grid.

It's kind of possible to set up that sort of thing now but you have to know the BPMs of the various parts and set grid markers to mark the changes. It would be really nice to have a drifting grid ie. marker 1 > marker 2 sees a gradual master tempo reduction from 175 - 140BPM (using the earlier example given) instead of the determination of the average BPM which seems would just create bad and useless grids. I use the current gridding function then modify and tighten as needed, but this new system sounds like it would make the feature less useful and essentially break it's main purpose... Starting to give me reasons not to upgrade to Traktor 2 lol, though I do kinda want that tape delay effect, really like the more subtle effects like reverbs, delays and filters.

[photojojo]

OT - what are you changing to now? Your mixer and 2x X1 set up has turned my head!!

I sold the mixer with plans to get a DB4, but when I had all the money together I just couldn't make myself spend that much on a mixer. What I really want is just an older bare bones mixer. I'll still use some combination of X1, F1 and maybe K2. Right now I'm using the knobs on an APC40 mapped to the mixer and an X1 until I find the perfect mixer for cheap.

[scamo]

Absolutely agree, my thoughts exactly, been trying to think how th S4 mapping will work out of the box for tracks, samples and now remix decks. Any info NI?

I found this on the NI site.

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scamo

[photojojo]

When I had the S4 I found it necessary to have an X1 to really utilize the sample decks freely. That would be compounded even more wit the remix decks,