Traktor S4 Footpedal?
Can anyone recommend a nice affordable footpedal for the S4, where would I pick one up?
I went on ebay. Got mine for virtually free, it’s a Roland. They have name brands for ultra cheap there.
Where would you insert the footpedal for the unit?
Ean recommends the Boss FS-5U in this article. Actually he HIGHLY recommends it. 
Not sure how much has changed in the foot pedal market over the last year though. Were there any kind of breakthroughs or anything like that?
[quote=“Abyrne7, post:3, topic:14893, username:Abyrne7”]
Where would you insert the footpedal for the unit?
[/quote]The back, it has a dedicated midi footswitch jack.
That way you can hit and hold shift with your foot and have both hands free to do whatever it is you want to do with your hands.
as does the APC… can come in handy.
i was wondering what the point was for a footswitch, duh…
im gonna have to order one of these bad boys! and they are dirt cheap, twenty bucks for a brand new one? hell yeah
[quote=“natebehe, post:8, topic:14893, username:natebehe”]
i was wondering what the point was for a footswitch, duh…
im gonna have to order one of these bad boys! and they are dirt cheap, twenty bucks for a brand new one? hell yeah
[/quote]Paid 5$ for mine on ebay.
so i was thinking, since the effects don’t have a kill button (from what ive heard on the NI forum) on the actual controller using the foot pedal as a shift I can assign and make my own kill buttons. any other ideas as to what i can assign the “shift” pedal to do?
[quote=“natebehe, post:10, topic:14893, username:natebehe”]
so i was thinking, since the effects don’t have a kill button (from what ive heard on the NI forum) on the actual controller using the foot pedal as a shift I can assign and make my own kill buttons. any other ideas as to what i can assign the “shift” pedal to do?
[/quote]Yes and seeing as I have millions of ideas it depends on what you want to do. 
well i obviously havent played with the S4, but i cant decide if i want the “shift+sample 1,2,3, or 4” to delete the cues like ean shows us in the video review or if I want it to toggle the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th cue points.
there aren’t a whole lot of buttons that make sense to have second functions to them, at least from what i can see and think of needing to have access to on the controller.
i guess im only seeing the shift as a possibility for more effects features, and cue point juggling. am i missing something? (im sure i am)
[quote=“natebehe, post:12, topic:14893, username:natebehe”]
well i obviously havent played with the S4, but i cant decide if i want the “shift+sample 1,2,3, or 4” to delete the cues like ean shows us in the video review or if I want it to toggle the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th cue points.
there aren’t a whole lot of buttons that make sense to have second functions to them, at least from what i can see and think of needing to have access to on the controller.
i guess im only seeing the shift as a possibility for more effects features, and cue point juggling. am i missing something? (im sure i am)
[/quote]Well the SHIFT button is obviously going to be MOD1 and the pedal MOD2 or vice versa. Maybe you want something like
Foot Pedal = 1-8
Shift = 8-12
Foot Pedal + Shift = 12-16
That’s like a midi fighter worth of buttons isn’t it?
Seems extremely feasible to do on the fly.
Yeah, well dont need the shift for the first four since they already have dedicated buttons but yeah I got the idea. It would be alot easier for me to come up with some cool mods if I had the damn thing in front of me. Can’t wait
yeah, no eq kills and 5,6,7,8 cues are putting me off getting the s4. Might just keep my X1 and remap the effects section to eq with eq kills and use the cue bit on the X1 instead of s4