S4 cue buttons

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S4 cue buttons

More often than not I am unable to use the cue buttons (1-4) or the actual cue button to repeatedly and accurately stab in live cue points of a track.

I’ve tried adjusting the latency but this doesn’t seem to help.

Can you use these cue buttons to stab in audio like the cue button on a CDJ? If so any advise on what settings I can change to do this.

Thanks in advance
J

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Turn off sync.

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Thanks the defiantly helps when the track is not playing. The cue buttons are much more responsive.

However if the track is playing and you repeatedly hit cue (say on a kick downbeat) it wont repeat as where as good.

Thanks though that defo got me part way sorted. Thanks!

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Could this have something to do with Quantise mode? Try turning that off

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yup, if you want the “finger drummer” style of response, then turn off Quantise, the down side is that you will most likely be out of time with your cuepoints …use sparingly.

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Thanks, these have all been great tips.

I tried switching off quantise before which again seemed to make a difference but I still wasn’t able to consistently use the cue points to stab in beats or acapella as accurately as I could with CDJs.

I know it’s possible to do this as I just purchased a 3d midi fighter which gets great response. Starting to wonder if the s4 cues were not quite designed for finger drumming.

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just had a thought, go to the S4 control panel, and check that you have 1ms in the USB latency, (forget about the audio latency for now)

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Turn off snap mode next to quantize.