Is Traktor Pro ready for club use ?
Im reading their board and theres some horror stories… Now I know only the disgruntled post whereas u dont hear much from successful users… Rumor has it the big djs - Hawtin, Dubfire, Liebing, etc still use Traktor 3 at their gigs… Is Traktor Pro ready to be used or should I wait to purchase it after there are software updates…
I’ve only used it live once at a club and was pretty stable, but that was on my pc. I have a macbook now, and haven’t tried it yet. So until then, traktor 3 is whats best for me!
How cares what the “Big” dj’s are using, what should matter is what you use and how stable the software is when you play live.
If Hawtin got a mohawk and dyed it pink, would you get it to?
Hell, I don’t think Traktor 3 is ready for club use. 
While there’s a lot of mileage variation, that alone should tell you that something’s wrong. Some people are having few problems but a glance at the NI forum shows they’re clearly in the minority. I wouldn’t play out with the thing until I’d practiced & dialed it in for literally a couple of months. Since the T3 release I haven’t trusted Traktor as far as I could throw a fit.
Pink Mohawks are hot!
I care if big djs havent moved over to the latest version of a product they are marketing in advertisements.. if the rumors that they arent using the latest product they are endorsing are true then that tells me alot about the stability of a product im contemplating purchasing.
NI and other companies get big name dj’s to suck you (& me) in so you can buy the product, its all about advertising. Look at Steve, he still uses Traktor 2! and the only way we can confirm is these endorsed dj are still using T3 is to catch them in the act!
But then again a few djs i met here in NYC say they use it with no problems… Maybe I’ll just take the jump and try it.
demo T-PRO to see how it works for you.
I have.. it works great.. but Im looking for Traktor Scratch Pro reviews…
You always need to remember that Native Instruments only does enough testing to get the product out the door. You better test it for yourself (we’re talking months, not weeks) before playing it out. I know it’s tempting to play on it as soon as you get it, but resist the temptation. Your reputation will thank you.
Yeah, I still use T3.4 live and it gives me problems, but it works.
T-Pro is great, I practice on it and am making a completely new set up on it, as well as cleaning out my collection. But I am not using it live yet. Stability wise, I think it’s ready, as long as you know what you’re doing with it.
I admit to deck envy with T3x. I’ve tried T3 on 3 systems now and had different results on all 3, all of them unsatisfactory. Some of it I couldn’t ignore for live play (dropouts/crackling), but some of my problems I’m happy to admit have to do with the rather niche way I make a living using Traktor: I absolutely need to be able to key-match tracks that are played as much as 50% above their recorded BPM. And I record using the NMX function even though I never edit later, as I feel using what is essentially a big MIDI macro is much less resource-hogging than streaming tracks from an HD while saving audio to an HD. Neither T3x nor TPro will do either of these. How the hell is this progress over T2.5.3?
Live play is a different matter, and I’d absolutely love access to 4 decks & onboard fx if I knew it would be stable. I personally don’t care if Richie Hawtin uses Traktor to juggle elephants and get blow jobs; I don’t like what he does and I don’t care what he uses. He’s tried out plenty of new technology he’s quickly discarded; the flavor he’s eating this week is just that: this week’s flavor.
Reliability when playing out is the part that seems to get the most varied user reactions. To me this is the proof that Traktor isn’t ready for pro release: if a general and knowledgeable user can’t depend on it for stability, there’s something wrong. If it isn’t working on the majority of systems used by DJs who are generally computer-proficient, there’s something. NI uses the public as beta testers and lets them pay for the privilege. I think there’s something wrong with that, too. As my NI forum sig says, 4 Decks Working > 2 Decks Crashed
Sorry, didn’t mean to rant. God knows I’ve done enough of that on the NI forum.
LOL. …Oh and I completely agree about the rest of it.
If you read the NI boards, I think it’s apparent that there are some disputes within the NI ranks about TPro. As an aside, looks like some factions are trying to make the product like CDJs and others like what it is, DJ software.
I demo’d Traktor Pro briefly and yeah it’s not bad, and i am glad this question arose. Personally i would have asked is it stable and also are we trying to pack to many controls into one system? On one hand i think it’s great that we are able to control so much from 1 midi controller and 1 program but how many times since the invention of the computer has man blasphemised technology. Native Instruments has done a great job of localising as much of what we need/ask into 1 piece of software to be grouped if preffered with a controller. Meanwhile are they conversing with manufactures such as our beloved Vestax to create the ultimate controller to function alongside such software. Since discovering DJTT i spend a ridiculous amount of time browsing the forums and re-reading articles to learn as much as i can from such a great community of DJ’s/Controllerists or whatever we like to call ourselves. Ean has done a great job with the team at Vestax to create the VCI-100SE which goes to show Vestax are listening to the group who really count and i’m sure will continue to accept our input into further useful and exciting products which benefit us in the near future. Meanwhile Native Instruments are putting existing technology into a software interface which we are basically beta testing and modifying to create new tools and effects and sharing it with the rest of the world meanwhile paying top dollar for it. It really comes down to “catch 22”. Do we put in the hard yards and cart a bit of extra gear around with us such as EFX modules and extra controllers which we have spent countless hours modifying and hacking to get that little extra tweak and continue to discover this industry and our own style ourselves or do we pay NI money to be beta testers for their “new” products over and over again and let them style us with the basic “how to” of what they are trying to move the industry towards.
I’m not knocking the product as i fully enjoy what they have given us but remember the easier they make it the lazier “some” will become. I think with the digital era it has really become not a vinly digital battle but a battle to be a controllerist/technically minded dj rather than a playlist monkey who just changes songs.
Hahaaa all this makes me want to keep my old MacBook (G4) and FS2…
Outdated and often slow on startup.. but i found the perfect OSX & TFS version that have been rock solid for over 5 years. Only 3 crashes I can remember (after tweaking endlessly)
They should pack as many controls as they possibly can into it, the more the merrier - its the artists choice if they will use all of them or just some of them.
Its worked great for me
as stupid as I am 
I got Traktor on release and installed on my laptop, I did a testset for a few hours and I didnt notice any issues, so I took it out live the same night and it has been rocksolid when performing live.
I do have however gott some startupcrashes, but I suspect that is related to soundcards not beeing in the same usbport as when configured as i goes away when using the right usbports.
Other than that I think Traktor Pro beats T3 in terms of usability by miles, but im not using the scratchmode with timecode media, just midi here.
I havent used Pro live yet … but plan to at my next gig.
Functionally it really is a step up from pro, though with such a drastic change people are always going to find personal niggles.
I brought it when it first came out, and have used it a lot at home now. It runs with good audio 99 % of the time in Vista on my desk top but I had the Unauthorised Copy Detected bullshit so I had to crack it it to stop this. Now whenever I load a track the gui hangs for about 30 seconds, but no audio drop out.
Now I has a macbook and it runs sweet as on that
that’s weird… didn’t take tpro out to live gigs yet, but i spent many hours at home fiddling with it…
what i noticed is that it’s quite solid, but there is something strange going on:
if i sync a track with another track or with the master clock some tracks (random tracks, about 30% of the tracks i play, but the affected tracks always change) get strange audio artefacts making it sound reeeeally bad…
if i turn off sync and beatmatch manually everything is working fine, turning sync on after beatmatching causes the same artefacts…
that is definitely a live killer for me…
anyone else experienced that?
working on a macbook pro with leopard, tpro and a vci-300 with mini.translator…
