Do's Traktor pro 2 sound different to older versions?

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Do’s Traktor pro 2 sound different to older versions?

Right folks as a suspect a lot of you have been playing around with the new Traktor release (Pro 2).

I was wondering if anyone had noticed a sound difference between tp2 & older version. I have upgraded from Traktor Pro S4 & its been bugging me how different it sounds from the S4 version of the software (to the point it is annoying me).

So I loaded the same Wav file into both versions on traktor (TPS4 & TP2) with the same setting for the mixers (i.e. EQ type), made sure the sample rate and buffer where set the same, then played the track though my monitors.

I personally think the mids & highs are harsher on TP2 than TPS4 & that TPS4 sounds better!

Also on a side note do’s anyone else think that the new TP2 is less CPU intensive?

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Less CPU intensive than s4 maybe. I can only speak as a tsp-timecode user, but afaict it’s hungrier than tsp 1.2.7 even when doing nothing.

Re: sound color-(snipped some crap due to lack of attention) Ill try and a/b test both tsps on the same settings later on though. Maybe the algorithms behind eq. Styles have changes somehow.

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still had to reinstall the old audio driver. i thought it kinda sounded crispier and a little more responsive. im having a hard time figuring out the sampler, nothing records, all though i am just using the demo.

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its prob because youre using the demo… no recording is a feature of that (and LE i believe)

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It’s funny as I was listening to a set I have been working on for a week or so everything did sound a bit more crisp and clear. I thought it was a placebo at first but after reading @warpa4 response I wonder if there is something more to this.

Also, the new version uses a lot more CPU. My MBP fan comes on all the time now vs before it would rarely ever come on in a 2-3 hour set.

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even crazes new video has a different sound to it, i mean it sounds good just um a lil less underlined reverb in the new video vs the older one (not the effects just the sound quality)

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+1
as far as the demo goes, it seems more cpu hungry. i noticed that right way.

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Load is measured differently in TPRo2

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i only noticed slight drop outs when playing a track and opening the options menu but well you shouldnt do that anyway :stuck_out_tongue:

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I love how the effects sound now like the delay isnt like ALL UP IN YOUR FACE DAWG!!! loud, it has a nice flow to it now. =)

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Completely agree with the delay thing!

As for CPU I havn’t noticed much but it seems to load faster?

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Interesting. Any more information on this change available?

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before the cpu meter just showed cpu. not its current latency + cpu to give more of an overall “lag” meter. its way more accurate now than it was before. imo, its currently giving the most honest load reading on the market.

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I find I can push it more i.e. cpu meter up in the red without audio drops outs, where as with TPS4 it would be really fussy and drop out forcing me to turn the buffer up.

One thing that has really pissed me off is all the beat gridding all ready done is worthless!
Its knocked all my grids off by re-analysing already locked tracks.

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From all my RELIGIOUS beat-gridding of my DnB, and having them locked, and analyzing them now in TSP2…

I sincerely think that the “resolution” of the adjustment you had over the “grid line” in TSP1 was not “fine” enough to set the beat grid exactly.

I say this, because in TSP1, even after RELIGIOUS beat-gridding of tracks that DID NOT drift, even using the tick, to beat match the “grid line” to the particular transient I was using, I found that sometimes when I put one track that was just slightly off, ahead of the transient, into another track, that was just slightly off, behind the transient, if I sync locked them, it sounded VERY SLIGHTLY off.

It is a very faint difference, but when I take off sync lock, and nudge either of the tracks the faintest amount back to where the theoretical “phase center” should be, it sounded MUCH more harmonious, like it was cough perfectly beat matched.

SO, that being said, when you zoom in 10x farther than you could in TSP1, in TSP2, you can “see” how far off the TSP1 grid line actually was, and adjust it to an even “finer” resolution.

I really love it, I have a feeling after I go back through all my DnB, and set the beat-grids to a scientific degree of accuracy, that any two sync locked tracks (when all other things are perfect, key, phase, measure, general “feel”) are going to be “perfectly” beat matched.

And thats my 2 cents.

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I know what you saying I also love the accuracy, but it has completely moved/changed bpms of locked tracks.

Meaning anything that I have done in the past has been changed and is now worthless and need unlocking and redoing! =(

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Interesting…

I find all my locked tracks still have the BPM where they were locked at, as well as have the grid marker where I set it. I notice a few tracks just of the bat so far, where I can tell the grid marker isn’t perfectly over the transient.

…but the marker is over the transient that I had picked for that track, so its really easy to fine tune…

shrug

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Wish mine was that simple, it changed downbeat left, right & centre. Its was depressing looking at the amount of tracks I had locked in knowing they all needed rechecking =(

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yeah I started doing this in the demo version it’s a godsend and now with loops going in sample decks and having 2 tracks play it will all be in sync like you want it.

And I said it before but ill say it again, The effects are FAR better now (more noticeable in delay)

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Uggh all this talk makes me want to re-beat grid my dnb sets. Sometimes I hate doing homework…