I have a confusing problem with my Traktor and S4 jogwheels. Basically, when I use the outside of the wheel to move my beatgrids into place and manually beatmatch, I hear the pitch of the song change according to whether I’m (temporarily) slowing or speeding up the track. The problem is that I swear a day ago this did not happen! It used to be that whenever I used the outer-rim of the jogwheels to cycle through a track that the sound would NOT be changed at all. Now I hear a very irritating bend in the pitch, and I can’t see anywhere in the interface or options to change this.
FYI all I have changed with the transport/jog wheels section in the last week is to set the transport sensitivity to 100% so that I can slow down a track enough to finish a set, i.e. total slowdown. How would this mess with the transport pitch, though?
So simple, and yet so obvious… I was recalibrating my jogwheels and reinstalling Traktor and everything, thinking something had gone wrong in the MIDI control programming! Maybe I had hit Shift+Play on accident. How embarrassing!
Haha! When I’m mixing I’m in a trance-like state… focussed on the bare essentials, as if I was just using 2 vinyl and a mixer. All the bonus S4 features are distracting enough already… that one tiny ‘Keylock’ light being turned off just doesn’t jump out at all!