My Outlandish ,speculations on what Traktor Hardware Native Instruments will put out.

[Polygon]

Here’s my far-fetched hope for the specs on an upcoming s4 mk2:

@Polygon

deep down inside i hope NI to redesign the whole thing from the ground up. Bigger full metal case design, USB 3.0 NHL support, Bigger jogwheels with settable magnetic breaking and rotation indication lighting, full sized velocity sensitive RGB pads, two color displays on top of the decks with full settings of what’s displayed (realtime waveform, track names, effect parameters), two x-pads or one xy pad, asymmetrical layout (à-la pioneer controller style), touch sensitive rotary encoders & EQ knobs with LEDs around them (like the ns7 II).
With the current tech, it IS possible to do. And they’d pretty much monopolyze the whole controller industry with it.

@DirtyNerd

2. I could see NI looking into creating a media player (e.g., Kontrol P1) that runs the internal traktor algorithms emulated in hardware and play digital media files off a USB and do something like “dropbox sync” over wifi, or just export the library to the USB to keep cues, loops etc up to date. It would support hot cues, loops, waveform display etc. and be linkable to other such controllers to enable SYNC, library sharing off a single USB etc.

Too much r&d involved to make a mobile device of this caliber. I’m dubious NI would venture into such a territory while still keeping its price down…