hey guys.. long time no post.. u are pretty much my last resort after asking everyone i knew.. I have my biggest gig ever tomorow.. 200 peeps.. im closing the night doing the last 2 hours.. last night i was changing some stuff to my routine to better fit the crowd.. and traktor exploded on me… everything is outta wak… now my question is.. can i reset traktor without loosing all my remaping? and all my Cues.. im scared of reinstalling and loosing my setup.. cause i dont have time to re do it.. especially not re place all my markers omg i have chills just thinking about it.. my learn button also wont work anymore and i cant record either.. and its doing some shitty lags when i drop a song or effects.. all things that i had settled and hasnt done in forever..
any thoughts?! can i map through a third party software? i have an axiom 49 i can live with only knobs and faders for tomorow ill just put the cues directly on my laptop keyboard
When you say that traktor exploded can you give more specific details? also list your whole setup computer rig (including hardware specs if you know em), midi controllers, soundcard, Operating system, etc. If you have windows you might be able to install a second copy of traktor onto the same machine.
Yes, you can save your settings separately. Just go into the preferences and hist export at the bottom. It will give you a list of things to save such as Midi Mappings and Audio Settings. It will then save it in a .tsi file. When you re import it, you will be asked which items you want to import. This way, you can narrow down the problem and only import the settings you need. I run Traktor on two separate systems, one to prepare tracks on and on to play gigs and do this all of the time
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what i mean by exploded is that everything is different now… it wont set itself as master automatically when i drop my song.. so i keep forgetting since i was used to it.. and now the lets say i synch track A to B take A away and drop a new one in B will automatically synch again.. i hate that.. that means i always have to say wich one is master… when i hit play the deck plays backswards for a while then comes back.. as if i was in a messed up vinyl mode.. or i dunno
and most importantly my record and my learn dont work period
omg just opened traktor again and now i cant even play a track.. the play button is yellow saying its playing but the track isnt moving.. this is just getting better and better eh?!
Im on a Mac Book Pro.. 2g of ram.. soundcard is M-Audio MobilePre and im only using a axiom 49 as controller. usually cues are mapped to keys on the keyboard of the axiom and all knobs and faders to the corresponding in traktor..
Its a hyper simple setup nothing fancy, i am a piece of crap dj.. no pro..
ok so i need the tags… the remapping i know by heart so would only take 30 mins or so.. i can do it before the gig (ghetto i know.. but time is running out..)
so how do i backup and recuperate all the tags.. or cue points IN the songs themselves… those are my babies
They should be written to the tracks themselves. You should save the collection somewhere else on your machine, and as long as you are using the same song files it should be there.
Also, saving the .TSI and hotkeys is easy and takes less time than the 30 minutes to set it up.
Regardless, however, Traktor should write all cues and beatgrids to the tracks themselves. To be sure you should be able to tell Traktor to write all the information to the tags right now, and then save the collection as a backup and then uninstall. When you reinstall you should be able to load that collection, relocate the files, if necessary, and it should all be there.
No probs mate. If your using Traktor Pro it automatically writes the Cues/Loops/BPMs/Stripes to the actual MP3 Tags.
As long as you save your Collection.nml in a Backup folder (as DvlsAdvct said) you can import it into the reinstalled Traktor and and it will read all the Tags from the MP3s
and you will be good to go.
It sounds like you have a corrupt Settings file or have changed the settings in the TSI.
If your track doesnt play but the button lights up then your soundcard is not correctly setup. Have a look to see if your soundcard is enabled correctly.
If your Midi controller is not working in the Midi Panel then that also could be set incorrectly. Check that your midi contoller is enabled.
You can save (export) your TSI and just select the Hot Key commands from the check boxes. You can load that into Traktor if you reinstall and it will only import the HotKeys.
You might find that reassigning your soundcard and midi controller solved all your problems just make sure your save that Collection.nml before you do anything.
hey guys
gig is done.. i managed to fix it at 9:05pm the night of the gig.. got on stage at 12:30am.. and had time to remap a mpd24 while at the club on stage..
hooray for traktor luv it.. when it works.. hehe
so the problem of course was that i am a complete moron and my monitor was set to not connected or something.. i opened traktor 3 and went throught each setting one by one comparing to the ones in Traktor pro and figured it out right away
club owner said they went over 200 peeps that is pretty cool
thanks guys
peace