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As an example, we will show you here how you can quickly make use of a Loop stored in a
Hotcue slot to introduce the track you’re about to mix in. By the way, this will allow us to
sum up what we’ve learned until now.
The track Techno 2 is still loaded on Deck B. The track on Deck A is on air (crossfader at
full left) and you want to prepare the track on Deck B for mixing in:
► Start the playback of the track in Deck B and send it to your headphones by activating
the Headphones Cue button of Deck B.
1. Find an interesting Loop near the beginning of the track by using the controls in the
Loop section of Deck B.
2. Once you have a nice Loop running, store it by pressing an unlit Hotcue button.
3. Press the respective Hotcue button again to let the Loop start on a downbeat of the
track in Deck A.
4. Now start to bring this Loop in your mix, for example by implementing the low-cut we
explained in the previous tutorial (see chapter ↑15.4.9, Mixing In the Track by Using
the Channel EQ and Filter).
5. When you’re about to fade out the previous track completely, deactivate the Loop on
the new track and you’re done.
The CUE Advanced tab offers a lot more options.
15.7 Adding FX
The FX section of TRAKTOR (SCRATCH) DUO 2 is limited. It offers only 2 FX Units with
fixed mixer channel assignments and only in Group mode. The overall number of FX is also
reduced.
The FX section of TRAKTOR LE 2 only offers one Group FX per Deck and an even smaller
amount of FX.
Now that we have seen the basics of playing tracks on the Decks and mixing them togeth
er, let’s see how to add effects—or “FX” in the TRAKTOR terminology.
TRAKTOR has an extremely powerful effect section. By default, there are two different FX
Units in TRAKTOR, which can be assigned to any of the Decks.
Tutorials
Adding FX
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