# Quantize in Traktor Pro **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [December 8, 2008, 5:33am UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/quantize-in-traktor-pro/1559 "2008-12-08T05:33:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![B33SON](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.djtechtools.com/b33son/32/13472_2.png) [@B33SON](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/B33SON)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 5:33am UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/quantize-in-traktor-pro/1559/1 "2008-12-08T05:33:26Z")
**Quantize in Traktor Pro** I’m having trouble getting Traktor Pro to quantize my actions. I’m trying to do something simple like start a second track in phase with the first. I tried Play/Pause+Phase Sync. But the Phase Sync seems to be ignored. I have to press the button again for the Phase Sync to work. I also tried turning on Quantize by checking the button. But that doesn’t seem to help either. 😞 How do you do this? It was cake in 3.4. Damn it! ---
**Author:** ![j1n](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.djtechtools.com/j1n/32/12136_2.png) [@j1n](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/j1n)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 6:18am UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/quantize-in-traktor-pro/1559/2 "2008-12-08T06:18:25Z")
what is Quantized, as i see this in Ableton also so was kinda curious what its for… ---
**Author:** ![Sheph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Sheph](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/Sheph)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 6:43am UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/quantize-in-traktor-pro/1559/3 "2008-12-08T06:43:39Z")
when an action is quantized it lines input key strokes up to a tempo grid, because human hands will never be 100% accurate at playing a note on time over and over again. say you were to play a high hat every 1/16 note for instance. when input quantize is activated in Ableton any note played will fall directly on the selected quantize parameter rather than playing exactly as keyed, which would have a more natural waver. patterns entered without quantize can also be quantized after the fact. quantize works the same in Traktor but is limited to 1/4 notes AFAIK. meaning that if you attempt to press play on a track a little early or a little off the beat it will automatically adjust your timing. s. ---
**Author:** ![B33SON](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.djtechtools.com/b33son/32/13472_2.png) [@B33SON](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/B33SON)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 7:08am UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/quantize-in-traktor-pro/1559/4 "2008-12-08T07:08:43Z")
> [@Sheph](#): > > quantize works the same in Traktor but is limited to 1/4 notes AFAIK. meaning that if you attempt to press play on a track a little early or a little off the beat it will automatically adjust your timing. > > s. …Well, it’s supposed to. Or maybe it does, but just not for me. What’s up with this? Anyone have a solution to starting a track in sync with the master track in Traktor Pro? ---
**Author:** ![BentoSan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.djtechtools.com/bentosan/32/15028_2.png) [@BentoSan](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/BentoSan)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 7:15am UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/quantize-in-traktor-pro/1559/5 "2008-12-08T07:15:46Z")
> [@B33SON](#): > > …Well, it’s supposed to. Or maybe it does, but just not for me. What’s up with this? Anyone have a solution to starting a track in sync with the master track in Traktor Pro? Drop a cue point and use cue play 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BentoSan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.djtechtools.com/bentosan/32/15028_2.png) [@BentoSan](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/BentoSan)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 7:37am UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/quantize-in-traktor-pro/1559/6 "2008-12-08T07:37:22Z")
Actually playing TPro now, snap is off, quantize is off and the deck is synced to the master clock - whenever i hit play it starts in time to the music. ---
**Author:** ![J.R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@J.R](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/J.R)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 3:14pm UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/quantize-in-traktor-pro/1559/7 "2008-12-08T15:14:25Z")
B33SON, I have the same problem. seems like TP don’t support this action… this feature it’s essential to me. [http://www.native-instruments.com/forum/showthread.php?t=75209](http://www.native-instruments.com/forum/showthread.php?t=75209) ---
**Author:** ![Julio](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.djtechtools.com/julio/32/14882_2.png) [@Julio](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/Julio)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 4:51pm UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/quantize-in-traktor-pro/1559/8 "2008-12-08T16:51:04Z")
I noticed this Yesterday as well… I had a friend come over with his CDJ-1000 mk3s to test Scratch Pro. This happened all over again and again. It was so frustrating. ---
**Author:** ![B33SON](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.djtechtools.com/b33son/32/13472_2.png) [@B33SON](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/B33SON)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 5:22pm UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/quantize-in-traktor-pro/1559/9 "2008-12-08T17:22:05Z")
> [@BentoSan](#): > > Actually playing TPro now, snap is off, quantize is off and the deck is synced to the master clock - whenever i hit play it starts in time to the music. Hmm… maybe I don’t understand how Master works in TPro. The first deck playing is obviously set to Master… but when I look at what seems to be the Global Master/Tempo/Phase panel all controls are gray’d out and I have no ability to tap or anything. Could I be missing a setting (because I have Traktor Scratch as well)? It makes sense that with Traktor Scratch that the CDJs have control over tempo… I’d think phase could be controlled in Traktor, but maybe not? ---
**Author:** ![B33SON](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.djtechtools.com/b33son/32/13472_2.png) [@B33SON](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/B33SON)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 5:23pm UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/quantize-in-traktor-pro/1559/10 "2008-12-08T17:23:59Z")
> [@Julio](#): > > I noticed this Yesterday as well… I had a friend come over with his CDJ-1000 mk3s to test Scratch Pro. This happened all over again and again. It was so frustrating. How often have you used Traktor Pro Scratch? I just used this for the first time last night. Works well unless you’re scratching with the the play button off… which I don’t do much anyhow. ---
**Author:** ![DvlsAdvct](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.djtechtools.com/dvlsadvct/32/15020_2.png) [@DvlsAdvct](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/DvlsAdvct)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 5:31pm UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/quantize-in-traktor-pro/1559/11 "2008-12-08T17:31:29Z")
> [@B33SON](#): > > Hmm… maybe I don’t understand how Master works in TPro. The first deck playing is obviously set to Master… but when I look at what seems to be the Global Master/Tempo/Phase panel all controls are gray’d out and I have no ability to tap or anything. Could I be missing a setting (because I have Traktor Scratch as well)? It makes sense that with Traktor Scratch that the CDJs have control over tempo… I’d think phase could be controlled in Traktor, but maybe not? When the deck is set to master I think it overrides the master clock, making that deck the master clock. There should be three settings, though… External, Tap and Auto. I think Auto makes it read out with the mater deck, and Tap lets you use that as the master clock and set everything to it. I don’t know if external is for an external clock or for one of the four decks… but that’s my guess ---
**Author:** ![B33SON](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.djtechtools.com/b33son/32/13472_2.png) [@B33SON](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/B33SON)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 5:36pm UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/quantize-in-traktor-pro/1559/12 "2008-12-08T17:36:53Z")
> [@DvlsAdvct](#): > > When the deck is set to master I think it overrides the master clock, making that deck the master clock. There should be three settings, though… External, Tap and Auto. I think Auto makes it read out with the mater deck, and Tap lets you use that as the master clock and set everything to it. I don’t know if external is for an external clock or for one of the four decks… > > but that’s my guess That’s how I understood it too, so I’m going to go and double check all my clock related settings tonight and see if there’s anything strange going on. If BentoSan says it can be done, it can. I probably am using the wrong key mappings or have missed a setting somewhere related to clock. ---
**Author:** ![Julio](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.djtechtools.com/julio/32/14882_2.png) [@Julio](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/Julio)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 6:24pm UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/quantize-in-traktor-pro/1559/13 "2008-12-08T18:24:25Z")
B33son: Actually this was the first time I used Traktor Scratch Pro… I used the previous version of scratch though… My 1200s are boxed since I bought the VCI-100. I was actually planning on getting a DJM-400 and CDJ-400s but gave the VCI-100 another chance. 😉 Yesterday I plugged the CDJ-1000s to my Audio8. I only had to fire-up Traktor, and choose inputs under Preferences… and the CDJs were working almost flawlessly. For some strange reason cueing was not possible, FX did not work at all (yes I turned them on, and chose the bank) and a few other issues that arouse. Afterwards… I plugged my VCI-100, and cueing, FX were still not working. I re-loaded Ean’s .tsi but still could not cue, or have the FX to work. I will double check settings, etc later tonight.. just in case I have changed something by mistake and didn’t notice. ---
**Author:** ![B33SON](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.djtechtools.com/b33son/32/13472_2.png) [@B33SON](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/B33SON)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 7:05pm UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/quantize-in-traktor-pro/1559/14 "2008-12-08T19:05:41Z")
> [@Julio](#): > > B33son: > > Yesterday I plugged the CDJ-1000s to my Audio8. I only had to fire-up Traktor, and choose inputs under Preferences… and the CDJs were working almost flawlessly. For some strange reason cueing was not possible, FX did not work at all (yes I turned them on, and chose the bank) and a few other issues that arouse. I didn’t try any FX last night. I’ll try it again and see if it works. I’ll also have my roommate run through everything to make sure it’s working. He uses CDJs exclusively… I only know the basic stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Julio](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.djtechtools.com/julio/32/14882_2.png) [@Julio](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/Julio)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 7:57pm UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/quantize-in-traktor-pro/1559/15 "2008-12-08T19:57:25Z")
LOL - Funny.. anyone that has seen your video would strongly disagree. 😛