Make the track start at first beat (traktor pro)
Hey guys… Just purchased Traktor Pro and my new nice controller (1d). When I load a track, it doesnt load at the first beat.
If I move the load-marker in the track i CAN get it to load there, but when I cue/play (cup) it goes back to the very first marker which I guess is a mark of where the track starts…
Any help please?
Deck> track seek. 
Thats actually not a possibility in TPro… (that exact menu is not there).
However there must be a way of loading a track and have it set on a default cue point or am I just dreaming away?
Yes, you can Load your track, set a “Load” Cue Point, then write tags. Close the track, and re-open it… now it should load and default to the cue point.
I don’t have Traktor Pro yet, but if it’s the same as 3.4 then in Configuration you also need to check the checkbox to load tracks to the load cue point.
B33son:
Thank you very much for the update… I completely forgot about this setting!
Haha - Usually I automatically set this in everytime I install/configure Traktor. 
Sorry to resurrect an old thread but this is driving me nuts…
I know you can set a load cue point, or a grid cue point, and have the track load to that point, but this uses up one of the 8 available hot cue slots…
At the moment when a track loads, it loads up to a white triangle marker (cue marker?) at teh bottomm of the waveform. Can i move this and save the new position so that traktor loads up to the new position of this white triangle at the bottom?
seems really odd that traktor can work out where all the beats are etc, but it is unable to put the default cue at the 1st beat, and instead loads up a cue point way before the 1st beat meaning i have to move it every time, or lose one of the hotcue slots!!?
thanks
Yeah you can delete the first cue point by clicking on it the number ‘1’ and then clicking the bin-icon.
You can then set a new hot cue by navigating to the correct beat marker (if necessary check ‘snap’, top of screen) and drop a cue point and click STORE
Hope this helps, maybe a little confusing explaination but I think you’ll understand if you see the Traktor interface..
Oh and yeah, thanks for resurrecting this thread in stead of starting a new one, if only all new (and old!) members did this..
Thanks for the quick reply but i must not have explained very well or you misunderstood. Im trying to change where the track loads, without using one of the 8 hot cues. I want to keep all 8 hot cues for actual hotcues, not waste them with load points or grid points.
Essentially i want traktor to autocue to the 1st beat and still have 8 hot cue slots free to use. From reading lots of forums it seems this is a feature NI dont for some reason incluse which is really odd. hopefully they do soon because im not going through 1000’s of mps and manually setting load points lol, especially when this wates an available hot cue slot for every track. The functionality is there already, i mena traktor already works out where the beats are, dont know why they are unable to autocue to the first one. weird.
thanks
A Load Marker and a Grid Marker are types of Hot Cues.
They take up 1 or 2 of the 8 that are available.
You have to set your own Load Marker.
If you use the Auto Grid feature that will save a Hot Cue but your cue points will not be numerically arranged .
If you set your Load Marker as the first Cue Point you can always use your Hot CUe Buttons to seek position like the Cue button.
Yes, Traktor can set grid points but that is not the same as setting a Load Marker because many mp3s have no sound at the start or a very low volume intro. Traktor would not set the load marker succesfully on most tracks.
As for “not going through 10000s of mp3s” … er welcome to using dj software. You gotta put the time in.
When I used Virtual DJ many years ago, it would remember if you set a cue point at the start of the track and always load it there whenever you loaded the track onto the deck. Well hands, Traktor should definitely have this…
Sorry I did in fact misunderstand, my bad.
Also: what Karlos said..
this is a bit tedious, but if you don’t want to use up one of your 8 hot cue points, what you can do is actually move somewhere else in the track (say the beat after where you want your load point), set your first 8 cue points - this will use up your hot cues. now, go back to your load point and drop another cue point (you will have to use the advanced controls panel here, hit the “store” button under “cues”) this will drop another cue - it just won’t be numbered on the waveform. my suggestion is to actually drop two if this is the first beat of the track. set one as the grid marker, and set the other as the load point.
Now go back and delete the first 8 cue points you made and voila, you now have a load marker, and a grid marker but you haven’t used up any of your hot cues.
This is also a good way of visually marking out your tracks for a host of other reasons without using up your hot cues
I discovered this last night, as I like to visually map out where the main “feel” of a track, or a part of a track starts, and where it ends, to give me a good idea when I need to be in or out of a mix, without wanting to use up any of my hotcues (as they are way too precious), but I still want to be able to activate cue loops if I want once I’ve reached that part of the track. Makes layering tracks a bit easier as you have quick visual access to which part of the track will work, and doesn’t have strong parts that might clash.
It would be super handy if Traktor gave you direct access to choose which of its 32 cue points you want to drop, but I don’t think this is possible?
If anyone has a quicker easier way of achieving what I’ve said, let me know
Hmmm, now that’s interesting. I’m gonna try that when I get home.
Yeah that works a treat until you create a new cue point. Traktor then numbers the first Load Marker as 1 and then the new one as 2.
Close but no cigar im afraid.
I can’t seem to replicate this?
Numerically, under “Cue” in the advanced panel it lists them as being the first and second cue points (from what I understand it numbers them according to where they appear in the track, so hotcue 8 could be counted as cue point one if it is the first cue you’ve dropped in the track), but it never assigns them as hotcues after I drop more cue points?
I just tried this, but maybe I’m missing what you are saying?
Yeah man your right in what you say . You can make the first cue point lose its number with the method you describe. But when i try to add another cue point it numbers all of them including the first one.
First screenshot if after you press Map and the number disappears from the Load Marker.
Second screen shot shows that if you add another Hot cue (3) Traktor numbers the previous Load Marker.
It sounded so nice.. 
Thats’s really strange.. I can’t seem to replicate this
I wonder if it matters that you didnt use 3 or 4 ?
Ill give it a try.