This may be a daft question, but I’ve looked around (this site and net) and can’t find a way to use keyword to find what I’m looking for, and therefore can’t find the answer.
Basically, I’m wondering if it’s possible to loop retrospectively in Traktor Pro 2?
I’ll explain what I mean. When I press loop, I obviously start a loop, whether it be 4, 8, 16, 32 beats in length. However, I’m wondering if it’s possible to loop backwards. Therefore, when I press loop, that point become then end of a 4, 8, 16, 32 beat etc loop and it jumps back by xx beats for the loop.
The reason I’m looking for this is so that when I’m in a buildup, I can press loop at the end of the build up and then use that to mix in another track to drop after the build rather than let the original track drop as it normally would.
Hopefully, someone understands what I’m trying to explain!
right it would not make sense to map this way in tp2, but since i solved the problem that way in tp 1.2.7 i shared the knowledge i had.
i did not check all the new options, since this is still working for me. but i will surely change to that in a new mapping.
“backward loop size + set” is what you need to map.
Well you can map a button to loop for instance 8 beats, then (under the same button) you can map the move command and move the loop back 8 beats.. But why would you want to loop the buildup instead of slamming the fader? I mean, it will make the drop less ‘dropping’ because you can hear it build up again. Or am i missing something here?
Cos I use it (in pre-planned set I write out in Ableton sometimes) and halve the loop bringing the loop nearer and nearer to the end of the loop/buildup (rather than halving from the start of the loop point) til it almost creates a roll effect whilst also filtering it and then when the drop happens, it most deinitely does not take anything away from it, but in fact enhances it.
[quote]right it would not make sense to map this way in tp2, but since i solved the problem that way in tp 1.2.7 i shared the knowledge i had.
i did not check all the new options, since this is still working for me. but i will surely change to that in a new mapping. [/quote]
Of course. I wasn’t trying to be condescending with you. I think those are quite interesting new features.
Click on search and you’ll get a basic drop down where you can enter a keyword. If you click on advanced search you can enter keywords and search entire threads for that keyword or just search thread titles for that keyword. You also have the option to narrow searches down to certain forums, who posted in the thread or started the thread.
Whilst on the subject of looping, anyone know if you can achieve a leap loop in Traktor?
Been trying out Deckadance demos with Ableton recently and quite like this little feature. Basically, you select “leap” instead of “loop”, which then triggers a loop of 4, 8, 16, 32 beats or whatever you choose. However, when you then exit the loop, instead of carrying on from that point, the track ‘leaps’ to where it would have been up to if you hadn’t looped.
Quite a nifty little feature I think, and makes it very easy to create remixes on the fly.
Only Beatmasher can do that a little bit, or you could try to map the actions of setting a loop, transporting loop to sampledeck, get volume on your deck off to one button…
Yep I liked that too on Decka, but Beatmasher basically does the same, it is just a bit harder to use and I think maximum is only 4 counts, not 8 or 16 such as on Decka..
You can make that 8 counts if you use the slicer instead of the beatmasher. Just have all the parameters off and button 3 on to make it 8 (Ean’s sampler trick).
Beatslicer doesn’t do the same as the beatmasher, however what you can do is to chain one or two beatmashers then use the slicer to get a record of 8 beats.
