User Manual

15 Tutorials
This chapter will guide you through the most common tasks that you will encounter during
your work with TRAKTOR 2.
The tutorials are workflow-oriented. They start with the simplest tasks and progressively
lead you to more complex operation, helping you to get more and more familiar with
TRAKTOR 2. After reading this, you should have the basic know-how allowing you to mix
with TRAKTOR 2.
If you are using TRAKTOR DUO 2, TRAKTOR SCRATCH DUO 2, or TRAKTOR LE 2, some of
the instructions do not apply due to the limitations of your software flavor.
15.1 Prerequisites
These tutorials can be read in a linear manner from the first to the last tutorial. However,
if you have used previous TRAKTOR versions and are already familiar with certain tasks,
you can skip the first tutorials and continue reading the later tutorials. Or, if you want to
experiment more with TRAKTOR and come back to the tutorials later, you can find the
needed prerequisites for every tutorial here.
Even if you’re already familiar with TRAKTOR, all tutorials are worth a read — every chapter
may have little workflow hints of which you weren’t aware.
The tutorials make use of the included demo tracks which were copied to your hard disk
during the TRAKTOR 2 installation procedure. Thus, you can follow these tutorials even if
you haven’t imported your own music into the Track Collection yet. For more info on how
to import your music into the Track Collection, please refer to chapter ↑5.2, Importing Mu
sic Folders.
We assume that your TRAKTOR 2 system is already up and running. If it’s not the case,
please follow the instructions in the separate Setup Guide and come back here when have
set up your system correctly!
In case you already changed some settings in TRAKTOR 2 before you started with these
tutorials, we strongly recommend you to reset TRAKTOR 2 to the factory settings:
1.
Click the Help menu in the menu bar at the top of your screen (on Mac OS X) or at the
top of the window (on Windows), and select Help > Start Setup Wizard.
Tutorials
Prerequisites
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