The first is the well-known waveform bug which doesn’t render a waveform behind the playhead if a hotcue is used to jump to a particular part into the song. Not very severe, but annoying.
The other one is a lot more critical though. For some reason, tracks play faster in TP2. It’s not consistent so I can’t really reproduce it, but firing up TP2 and playing a track sometimes make all tracks play faster than they should (compared to iTunes, TP1 playback). Interestingly, starting TP1, playing a song and just quitting it makes TP2 play the song normally. Had this issue a lot when just using TP2 with my internal soundcard and no controller. Have yet to experience it with my Kontrol S4 connected, but that could just be a coincidence.
Firstly, you can turn off the automatic beat gridding in the preferences. I always do this when I setup a new Traktor installation as I agree with you that it’s almost never correct.
I beat grid my tracks using the tick feature in TP2. I place a beat marker on the first downbeat and loop a section of 8 or 16 counts. Then I adjust the grid so that the tick is lost in the track or, if not possible, is almost not audible. I then jump to the end of the song to see if the tick is still inaudible. If not, you will need to manually adjust the BPM of the song using the other two arrows in the grid section. When the tick sounds about right (that is - doesn’t sound at all), I lock the grid.
Worth noticing is that Traktor is often wrong about the BPM of my songs. Setting the beatmarker on the first downbeat and pressing the Auto button in the grid section may fix this. If not, you can use the tap feature to tap out the approximate BPM manually or use the excellent and free BPM analyzer from MixMeister. It’s almost always more correct than Traktor Pro 1 (Haven’t had the time to check out if TP2 has improved). http://www.mixmeister.com/download_freestuff.html
I’ve found this method to be really precise. I.e. if the tick is inaudible, the track is perfectly gridded.
Thanks guys I will keep all this in mind as I continue to go through the motions! Don’t know what I would do without all these forums… though I have ordered the traktor bible. It can’t come soon enough!
I found a bug, mentioned only briefly in an earlier post. Forgive me if there’s already a fix for this, I’ll be honest and say I’m not in the mood to read through the whole thread right now.
The beat tick (metronome) is not firing on all four beats. The beats it drops seem random. It doesn’t matter if I’m listening to the master or from the deck option. And yes, I’ve been listening to it from the master clock with no music playing, to make sure I’m not losing it in the music. Has anyone else noticed this yet?
Sometimes, the T3 delay I have loaded in my Fx2 slot will have no effect on a deck it is enabled on. I’m trying to find how to reproduce this. The assign+fx on switches are definitely on, no freeze, the wet/dry knob is up…
Maybe a glitch with my x1.
Not a bug, but definitely something that’s bugging me - Karlos, maybe you can weigh in on this design decision:
The Master Out metering of TPro2 in external mode is like internal mode on TPro1. What does that mean? It means that all of the channels are (visually) summed to one stereo master meter - visually the result looks like you’re trying to pump four channels through the one master, complete with full-on constant redlining - Even when you aren’t because each channel is at a reasonable level AND is being individually routed to an external mixer.
You can test this, brickwalling the master on red with the limiter OFF, and hear the output clean as a whistle, distortionless. Remember, this is not redlining any one individual channel, but through the visual summation of many channels.
I use TPro in external mode. I keep each channel hot, but never clipping, and handle the mixing and master level outside of Traktor. This new metering essentially makes the master levels useless to external mode users. It might sound weird, but I’m not looking forward to playing with other djs, I’ll be up there redlining the master like I’m some kind of dumb-ass, even though the sound will be flawless they will look at my screen and assume I’m some kind of clueless noob. I suppose I could bring everything down a few notches, but why should I have to? The holy grail of digital audio is “as loud as possible without clipping”. I go for the best signal to noise ratio. Nice, hot, full of dynamic range. Worked well on TPro 1.
I hope this makes sense. I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with the sound. I’m saying this is a visual/reference choice that makes us look bad when working with audio correctly, and essentially eliminates an important meter from our workspace.
The old way (TPro 1) used a peak-style meter when in external mode, so what you saw was the loudest peak of any ONE track. Much more useful for determining your actual peak db. The only way the current metering is useful is if you are mixing internally, or routing all your channels into a single stereo out. I want the old way back.
I suppose I could bring everything down a few notches, but why should I have to? The holy grail of digital audio is “as loud as possible without clipping”. I go for the best signal to noise ratio. Nice, hot, full of dynamic range. Worked well on TPro 1.