Is there a way of having one long constant timecode track on the control CD’s in Traktor? You will never run out of time code signal on the vinyl cos if you let the needle run to the end it will keep spinning on the last groove of the record so technically you never have to put the needle back to the beginning or worry about it running out mid track. Is there a way of doing this with the CD’s so that you don’t have to skip to the beginning of the track on the CDJ?
Also, what are the different tracks for? There’s 3 tracks. The first one lasts like 30 secs or so, the last one is like 2 mins. I’m assuming one of them is to be used as the search feature or something? Can anyone fill me in?
also if you use the last groove on the timecode alot its gonna wear out in no time, its a back up solution to make sure your track doesnt run out, not something to rely upon.
If I use the looping function wouldn’t that make the track loop? I’ll have to try later tonight. I’m guessing you just loop it up and whack Traktor on absolute mode?
Yeah for sure the last groove will wear out but it just means the tune won’t suddenly stop and you can put the needle back to the beginning when you realise it’s there.
This didn’t work. The track kept skipping backwards every time the CDJ’s got to the end of the loop. I was in relative mode. I found that if I put the CDJ on loop the track would skip but if I moved the position of the track internally it would be ok. But as soon I loaded a new track it would skip again due to it being at the beginning of the track.
I tried a few different things, like having a massive loop time on the CDJ etc. but nothing was reliable. There was always a skipping issue somewhere.
Any other ideas?
My thoughts exactly. But it was definitely jumping backwards when in relative mode. And what do you mean by “As long as your loop points fall on an identical sample”?
I’ll try again tonight, it might have been a glitch that required a reboot or something.
Looping the CDJ and putting Traktor in relative mode 100% doesn’t work for me, the tune just keeps skipping back. Can anyone with a CDJ confirm this at all?
dodge you should rethink trying to do this. It sounds to me like you are essentially wanting to make the decks more like a controller. IMHO I think that is not a good idea because you are going to be readjusting your workflow more than you think. Again IMO the advantage of using CDJs with a DVS is that if something crashes you can easily switch over to playing regular CDs (I use mp3 CDs) very easily and quickly. Wouldn’t you want to stay in the habit of track selecting/loading so that if the worst case scenario happens you are still in the same mental work mode? It might save your bacon at a gig.
I am still having this issue, tried on Mk1 1000’s and Mk3’s, same on both. Can no one confirm with CDJ’s that they can get constant timecode for me at all? There must be someone rocking Traktor with CDJ’s on here? I tried it with Serato and it works fine.
I mix up my set all the time. I go from internal, to external, to relative, to absolute all the way through my set. If I had to switch to regular CD’s I wouldn’t have a problem remembering to select tracks. Right now I am using Serato and Traktor simultaneously in the club I play in. I have CDJ’s and controllers, I am constantly having to think about what I am doing so don’t worry, I’m on it.