User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Title Page
- Disclaimer
- Contact
- Table of Contents
- 1 Welcome
- 2 Upgrading from TRAKTOR (SCRATCH) PRO/DUO and TRAKTOR LE
- 3 The Setup Wizard
- 4 The User Interface
- 5 The Browser
- 5.1 The Track Collection
- 5.2 Importing Music Folders
- 5.3 Tracks Managed by iTunes
- 5.4 Finding Tracks (Search)
- 5.5 Working with Collection & Playlists
- 5.5.1 Creating a Playlist
- 5.5.2 Adding Tracks to Playlists
- 5.5.3 Showing Tracks in Collection
- 5.5.4 Deleting Tracks
- 5.5.5 Sorting Playlists
- 5.5.6 Organizing Playlists in Folders
- 5.5.7 Track Collection Subfolders
- 5.5.8 Favorites
- 5.5.9 Preparation Playlist
- 5.5.10 Exporting Playlists
- 5.5.11 Importing Playlists
- 5.5.12 Printing Playlists
- 5.5.13 More Playlist Functions
- 5.5.14 History Playlist
- 5.6 Editing Track Meta Data
- 5.7 Track Icons
- 5.8 The Preview Player
- 5.9 Cover Art
- 5.10 Collection Maintenance
- 5.11 Working with Audio CDs
- 5.12 Working with Digital Audio Players
- 6 The Decks
- 7 The Internal Mixer & the Crossfader
- 8 Using TRAKTOR with an External Mixer
- 9 Using the Header and Global Sections
- 10 Mouse Control for Faders and Knobs
- 11 Control via Keyboard & MIDI Hotkeys
- 12 Setting Up TRAKTOR Scratch
- 13 Preferences
- 13.1 The Preferences Window
- 13.2 Audio Setup
- 13.3 Output Routing
- 13.4 Input Routing
- 13.5 MIDI Clock
- 13.6 Timecode Setup
- 13.7 Loading
- 13.8 Transport
- 13.9 Decks
- 13.10 Mixer
- 13.11 Global Settings
- 13.12 Effects
- 13.13 Mix Recorder
- 13.14 Loop Recorder
- 13.15 Broadcasting
- 13.16 Browser Details
- 13.17 Layout Manager
- 13.18 File Management
- 13.19 Controller Manager
- 13.20 Traktor Kontrol X1
- 13.21 Traktor Kontrol S4
- 14 Advanced Operation of TRAKTOR
- 14.1 TRAKTOR Profiles
- 14.2 Syncing via MIDI Clock
- 14.3 Broadcasting
- 14.4 The Effects in Detail
- 14.4.1 Introduction
- 14.4.2 FX Panel Modes
- 14.4.3 Common Parameters
- 14.4.4 Delay
- 14.4.5 Reverb
- 14.4.6 Flanger
- 14.4.7 Flanger Pulse
- 14.4.8 Flanger Flux
- 14.4.9 Gater
- 14.4.10 Beatmasher 2
- 14.4.11 Delay T3
- 14.4.12 Filter LFO
- 14.4.13 Filter Pulse
- 14.4.14 Filter
- 14.4.15 Filter:92 LFO
- 14.4.16 Filter:92 Pulse
- 14.4.17 Filter:92
- 14.4.18 Phaser
- 14.4.19 Phaser Pulse
- 14.4.20 Phaser Flux
- 14.4.21 Reverse Grain
- 14.4.22 Turntable FX
- 14.4.23 Iceverb
- 14.4.24 Reverb T3
- 14.4.25 Ring Modulator
- 14.4.26 Digital LoFi
- 14.4.27 Mulholland Drive
- 14.4.28 Transpose Stretch
- 14.4.29 BeatSlicer Buffer
- 14.4.30 Formant Filter
- 14.4.31 Peak Filter
- 14.4.32 Tape Delay
- 14.4.33 Ramp Delay
- 14.4.34 Auto Bouncer
- 14.4.35 Bouncer
- 15 Tutorials
- 15.1 Prerequisites
- 15.2 Goals of the Following Chapters
- 15.3 Playing Your First Track
- 15.4 Mixing In a Second Track
- 15.4.1 Pre-listening a Second Track in the Preview Player
- 15.4.2 Loading and Playing the Second Track
- 15.4.3 Using Headphones to Prepare the Mix
- 15.4.4 Synchronizing the Second Track
- 15.4.5 Setting a Cue Point as Starting Point (Not Available in TRAKTOR LE 2)
- 15.4.6 Snapping to the Beats
- 15.4.7 Sticking to the Beats
- 15.4.8 Interlude: In Case the Left Track Is Over…
- 15.4.9 Mixing In the Track by Using the Channel EQ and Filter
- 15.4.10 Manual Beat-matching
- 15.5 Adjusting Levels
- 15.6 Looping and Cueing
- 15.7 Adding FX
- 15.8 Using Samples in Your Mix (Not Available in TRAKTOR LE 2)
- 15.9 Using the Loop Recorder (TRAKTOR PRO 2 / TRAKTOR SCRATCH PRO 2 Only)
- 15.10 Synchronization
- 16 Troubleshooting
- 17 Getting Help
- 18 Appendix A — Common Setups
- 19 Default Keyboard Mappings
- 20 Assignable MIDI Controls
- 20.1 General Controls
- 20.1.1 Load
- 20.1.2 Transport
- 20.1.3 Timecode
- 20.1.4 Cue/Loops
- 20.1.5 Mixer
- 20.1.6 Sample Deck
- 20.1.7 Loop Recorder
- 20.1.8 FX Group
- 20.1.9 FX Single
- 20.1.10 Recording
- 20.1.11 Tempo
- 20.1.12 Track BPM
- 20.1.13 Master Clock
- 20.1.14 Preview
- 20.1.15 Browser Controls
- 20.1.16 Layout
- 20.1.17 Global Controls
- 20.1.18 Modifier Controls
- 20.2 Output Controls
- 20.1 General Controls
- Index
FX Units
Fig. 4-12 — The FX Unit 1 in Single mode
Fig. 4-13 — The FX Unit 2 in Group mode
Adding effects to songs can tremendously expand the sonic possibilities of your mix. For
that purpose, TRAKTOR 2 provides you with a great selection of high-quality effects (or
FX, in short). These FX can be loaded into so-called FX Units.
TRAKTOR offers four FX Units. By default, two FX Units are active. Both FX Unit 1 and FX
Unit 2 can be freely assigned to any of the mixer’s channels A-D.
You can choose from two different FX Unit modes in TRAKTOR 2: Either choose Single
FX, where four buttons and four knobs control one effect, or choose Group FX, where you
can use three effects simultaneously with a one-knob control.
► You can switch the FX Unit mode in Preferences > Effects > FX Panel Mode.
In TRAKTOR DUO 2 and TRAKTOR SCRATCH DUO 2, only two FX Units with a fixed mixer
channel assignment and a reduced number of effect types are available. Additionally, these
FX can only be used in Group FX mode. In TRAKTOR LE 2, only one Group FX is available,
and the number of effect types has been reduced further.
For a detailed overview of FX units please see ↑14.4, The Effects in Detail.
The User Interface
Main Elements
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