NI Crickets
Has anyone noticed how quiet things have been over at Native Instruments the past couple of months? Hmmmm. The last time this happened, we got an S8.
great, now we’ll get an s16 with even less tempo controls, more screens, 8 channels and more stems nobody cares about.
Still no flexible grids.
I’m sorry, I’m just kind of frustrated with NI at the moment. There’s a reason I abandoned Traktor about 2-3 years ago for SDJ. Traktor used to be way ahead of scratch live, now it’s the other way around
I hope whatever they’re cooking up is worthwhile, I did like the Z2 a lot. Too bad the faders were crap
I am with you there. I left Traktor as soon as Rekordbox had DVS. I may have lost a few features in the beginning, but we are seeing those features put into the software now. :-p
I got into Stems, but really never found myself using them in a live setting.
I loved the Z2 layout, but not having the standard 2 in 2 out soundcard built in ruined it for me. I dont mind using faders over midi, but I prefer having at least my crossfader being analogue.
NI is the weirdest company.
They have practically given Pioneer their blessing to take over the DVS and Digital DJ market, while Traktor has stagnated for 3 years. No i dont include Stems and the hardware to support them as innovations.
I just want a browser that has smart playlists like everything else has had for 5 years.
NI are a very authoritarian company. They dont consult, they make what they want and fuck you if you dont like it.
Which ones? Is it about the absolute mode not being same as with Traktor? There was a thread on this, can’t find it.
They fixed the ABS switch, added keymapping, and much more. I will pm you a video.
Thanks, I’m mainly interested about the absolute mode. The thread I can’t find was complaining that cue points are not active in absolute mode, while in traktor they are active because it temporarily switches to relative mode (or smthg).
NI are having a sale of TSP+timecode with every S4mk2 purchase so maybe that’s indicative of things to come?
Here’s the thread RekordBox DVS workflow 'broken' ?
Has this been solved in Rekordbox yet?
I will have to look at it a little bit more when I get home tonight, but sync does work in ABS mode. I will try it with serato timecode and see if that is the issue.
The 2.11.1 beta was just released, but it only contains some bug fixes, and you can now color code your tracks.
Nothing to really be excited about, but they are upgrading the code, so I doubt they are working on Traktor 3.
Color code the tracks?
Yeah, a massive feature for myself, been wanting this for many, many years.
As someone who plays ‘on the fly’ this is going to be a massive help.
wowsers Serato gets new spinning decks and we get coloured tracks… coloured me excited 
Patience is a virtue 
Still waiting on that customizable UI or just a cleaner UI altogether still tho. :-p
What are you talking about? The Traktor UI is easily the most customisable of the holy three.
It was a joke referring the previous post. It was a common request on the NI forums. People consistently ask for a serato-esque gui.
Personally, I dig the gui and just wish you could change the colors of it or make everything flat. I love flat.
FFS NI. Just allow me to browse by more than one category. Even a smart playlist would be nice.
Every single free dj software has smart playlists apart from Traktor.
NIs development priorities are completely laughable while they are getting killed by Pioneer.
As a Rekordbox fanboy, I can honestly say Traktor isn’t getting killed by Pioneer. While Pioneer may have corenered the mainstream market, NI has a super strong Niche Market including some of the world’s top turntablists. Mostly it is due to the midi mapping capabilities that no other software has. We will see what the final midi mapping capability of Rekordbox 5 is, but it still needs a lot of work in its present state (Im on rekordbox 5 beta 4).