Traktor Pro 3.0 ? [The Speculation Thread]
So with the X1 mk2, S4 mk2 and now Maschine Studio and Maschine 2.0 (software)…
Do we anticipate/expect Traktor pro/scratch pro 3.0 soon…
I hope they do and haven’t forgotten about traktor, I do also feel its due a big upgrade soon whereas the mk2 Maschine are only a year old…
Idk, anything can happen.
Just kindly update the modifiers and we’ll invent all the new features by ourself 
Speak for yourself stewe were not all mapping gods like yourself…
Just hoping for the grids to be elastic that’s all I really want! Maybe native Maschine support too
Guess we will have to wait some time for Traktor 3.0. NI wouldn’t release their software and controllers with such a small time difference in between. We can only suspect if they’ll match the software with refreshments of the existing hardware or introduce brand new stuff (S5/S6?), but either way it will take some time. I guess by now, they have a pretty good foundation of the next big Traktor release, but yet have to make some improvements and just wait until the market’s ready.
I bet we’ll at least see the 2.7 branch being released with some pretty cool features that could enhance the existing controllers (more touch strip functionality for the X1 MK2, some feature that may only be used with the S2/S4 MK2 ?).
After all, I think we won’t have to wait that long in 2014. My bet for the next flagship controller are, like I assumed before, (touch) displays that are integrated into the controller and maybe even USB flash drive support (controller and iPad have been moved together, next step would be DJing without a wired external device).
doesn’t traktor 3 already exist on mac? Isn’t it really old though?
I think that OP title refers to Pro 3.
+1000!
It would be great to grid all of those old tracks with live drummers.
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I posted this earlier in the comment thread of the Digital DJ Tips article about the Maschine Studio.
"I predict that around the 2014 NAMM show we will see Traktor 3 announced with the Z4 mixer and a single deck controller (with these screens, among other features) obviously designed to replace the CDJ and DJM and will likely work without the computer, possibly using something similar to Rekordbox. The software will also include features from the iPad app like x/y effects and freeze mode and integration with the Maschine 2.0 software/hardware. we might also see changes to the controller editor including the ability to order commands into a sequence and additional modifiers and conditions.
Not all of these predictions may come true but I suspect that NI will probably announce something at the next NAMM show Traktor related."
Also Elastic beatgridding would be great and maybe even an inbuilt warping engine like Ableton has. I guess we’ll have to wait until Janurary (If not later)
TDJS 3.4 fo life!
I still think that’s too soon for NI to abandon the laptop and make a standalone controller. Doesn’t seem practical, since everyone has a laptop/iPad and NI are software experts. I don’t see the benefit right now.
Just like the Maschine Studio, it will probably need the laptop to run but will likely use LCD screens to minimize the need to look at the laptop. I’d personally love to have something with the power of digital without having to plug it into your computer but that’s probably not going to happen just yet. However they might have some sort of system in place so only one laptop is needed and multiple DJs can just bring their usb and plug-and-play like the CDJ series does. This is already doable in traktor but it can get a bit messy.
The minute people are allowed to plug usb’s into Native Instruments hardware is the day that Traktor will be no more. For this reason it wont happen.
I think LCD screens will be the next step but i wouldnt bank on NI releasing hardware that doesnt need a laptop. They are a software company first and foremost.
I’m not going to buy any more NI DJ gear until they have the same displays as Maschine Studio, they look sick!
Once you start adding LCD screens to controllers and talking about a Z4, you’re talking about a serious investment for a set up that’s not club standard. That set up will be really expensive for your bedroom and you’re not going to want to take that much gear to a club and start rearranging the booth. I just don’t know how practical it would be.
agreed.
A software company, that drastically reduced the price of their top selling softwares, used to give out their software for free when you buy their hardware and has completely changed the hardware market within the last three years. I agree with you that stand-alone-controllers would easily take away sales from the traditional Traktor setup, but it would still be NIs technology. If they hadn’t started to throw out their software, I would totally share your opinion, but now I think it’s going towards a complete approach which enables the user to get an all-in-one-solution by NI.
The big money is waiting in the hardware market, especially since hardware cannot be pirated and NI is just following the trends. They WILL HAVE to create all-in-one solutions, because the competition hasn’t stopped and Pioneer would be glad to be the first company to introduce such controllers. Of course, they are known for CDJs and mixers, but the future lies within controllers and they have already started to bring out stand-alone-controllers, although they are not the best.
NI is the industry’s innovation leader and they have to keep their advance to be able to survive on the long-term.
i´m really forward into all-in-one solution from NI. and i hope that they´ll be as buggy as T3.4. but this time it would be motorized faders, knobs and wheels going nuts
I could easily envisage NI coming out with a controller with tech along the lines of the new valve game controller. Package a mixer/controller with a linux OS and recode Traktor to live on that, then add something like sharc chips for reprogrammable FX and ancilliaries (similar to UAD or Creamware Pulsar hardware).
Then you’d have an upgradeable OS, with programmable addable FX and processing in one box.