Traktor S4 HOTCUE Buttons n00b

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Traktor S4 HOTCUE Buttons n00b

Hi,

I am trying to use my Traktor S4 HOTCUE Buttons (1-4) to juggle samples, but it’s not quite going according to plan…

The HOTCUE buttons seem to behave differently on my S4 than on my keyboard. I can only depress one HOTCUE button at a time. There needs to be a good half a second gap between pressing HOTCUE buttons, or the sound cuts out, almost as if I have stopped pressing the button. Also I cannot depress two and let go of one without the sound stopping.

The keyboard behaves exactly as I would like. No Gap required, can press or depress multiple cue buttons, last cue button depressed the holds sound.

Here is a short video highlighting the behavior

http://www.djmaddox.co.uk/video/HotCueFail.mov

Please note the the “PLAY” button is not on, neither do I want it to be.

  1. Is this normal?

  2. Why would I want them to work like this?

  3. Why are they much nicer to use on £20 USB keyboard?

  4. Can the behavior be changed so they work like the keyboard?

Details of my setup;

OS: Windows 7 64bit, Mac OSX 10.7.5 and Mac OSX 10.8.2 Clean installation

Hardware: Macbok Pro Core i7 2.2 and 2.3, Macbook 13.3

Traktor Version 2.6.4 & 2.6.5

Driver version S4 2.5.3 and 2.6

S4 Mk1 and Mk2

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Help?

Anybody??? Should I raise this with NI?