Gradual tempo change between genres (traktor)

[Zac Kyoti]

My technique for this kind of thing is like this: All decks are set to auto. Before doing anything, I'll sync all playing decks to the master deck, and turn on key lock for all playing decks (I like to speed up/slow down without changing pitch). Then my shift button turns my pitch faders into 50% range faders, which generally is enough for me. Then I use the pitch fader of whatever is the master deck to speed everything up/down.

Because for some reason in Auto mode Traktor sometimes reinterprets which deck is master while doing this move, I have set the shift button to momentarily switch to Internal Master Clock mode while held down. This way, when I move the pitch faders, Traktor doesn't get confused and send things out of sync when it thinks the fader I'm moving is no longer the master deck.

Seems people are conflicted about this technique. While I'm not a fan of using it for dense parts of tracks you've already been playing, I think for spacy pads and sparse breaks, you can drop a couple loops and use it to really good effect. Bassnectar uses it a lot, drives the crowd frickken nuts.

[dodge]

I have set the shift button to momentarily switch to Internal Master Clock mode while held down.

HOW DO YOU DO THIS? This is what I wanna do. Be able to switch to master clock mode by holding down one button. Not push one button multiple times

Cheers

[Zac Kyoti]

Sorry to respond so late on this...
I think the way I have it set up is that my shift button is set up as a "hold". There is a modifier on the shift that is a "hold" too. Then there's a command to turn on the clock mode to manual, also set to "hold", that engages only as long as the shift button is held down. So when I hold down shift, and move the fader, the tempo command has the condition of the modifier that shift turned on - this is the long range for big tempo changes or to set up a beatmatch. Then when I release shift, the fader has a short range command for accuracy. The momentary switch to manual mode is what keeps the decks from re-choosing which deck is "master". It essentially just locks the current master deck down until I release the shift. (Getting away from the pesky auto assignment of master deck and consequence that the fader I'm using is no longer controlling the master deck). As long as slave decks are synced to the master, if I move the master deck's pitch fader while shift is held down, all decks smoothly transition in sync.

whew, hope that makes sense