Traktor S8 review Part 2

[Tarekith]

Part 2 of my Traktor S8 review is now online:

http://innerportalstudio.com/ni-traktor-review-part-2/

[4nT1]

nice review, but couldn't you just update your OP with the second part?

[Tarekith]

That would have been another way to do it, sure.

[4nT1]

I'm still trying to find a meaningful tutorial on making my own remix decks on the fly, so far all I have been able to do is record a seconds worth of a sample which sounds truly horrible. I'm pretty sure there's something available from the past F1's etc.. I can borrow from.

[Tarekith]

The S8 manual has a pretty good breakdown of the process I thought.

[4nT1]

Nice, now that it's out I will check it out when I get home from work!

[bc6]

any video?

[Tarekith]

I think it just does audio mixing hehe.

No video yet, I'm in the middle of packing to move halfway around the world, not even sure where my camera is

[mostapha]

If by halfway around the world you mean Atlanta, I still owe you a beer.

@4nT1, I don't have an S8, but it looks like the process is similar to the way you do it on the F1.

yeah....sampling off a live deck....is weird. You can do it if you want to capture specific sounds to play, and it works to capture a loop you want to keep running to free up a more full-featured deck. But, what I've been enjoying is playing with Maschine (either into an extra input or just kind of running), and you can grab the audio (it'll bounce in the background) and drag it into a remix deck slot, which you can save with the remix deck.

It actually works quite well. But the big benefit is that it's easier to launch a remix deck clip than it is to re-program the pattern in Maschine.

Doing the same kind of thing with another drum machine or groove box would work, but the process isn't as fluid.

[Tarekith]

If by halfway around the world you mean Atlanta, I still owe you a beer.

Nah, Luxembourg, just a little bit further