User Manual

The PHONES section offers two headphones connectors. You can audition tracks via the CUE,
as well as listen to the MAIN mix.
(1) Small Headphone Jack: Connect 3.5 mm (1/8-inch) stereo headphone plugs.
(2) Large Headphone Jack: Connect 6.3 mm (1/4-inch) stereo headphone plugs.
Adjust the Headphone levels with the CUE VOL knob on S8's top panel.
4.7 The Deck
This section provides a detailed description of how the knobs, buttons, faders and the Touch
Strip on S8's Decks relate to the TRAKTOR workflow.
S8 features two identically equipped Deck sections at the far left and right sides of the unit.
These give you hardware control over the software Decks in the TRAKTOR software. Active
TRAKTOR Decks always work in one of the Deck modes, as Track Deck, Stem Deck, Remix
Deck or Live Input.
Since the left and right Decks work identically, we'll just talk about the left one. Implicitly,
though, the descriptions also apply to the right Deck.
If you connect an external device to S8, you can also bypass the Deck completely by
switching the corresponding Mixer channel from TRAKTOR mode to Thru mode. This
will automatically de-activate the Deck.
For more details about the Deck modes, please refer to the TRAKTOR Manual.
The left-hand hardware Deck controls TRAKTOR's Decks A and C. The entire section can be
focused on either the primary (A) or secondary (C) Deck. The positions of Decks on S8 are con-
sistent with the Deck layout in TRAKTOR:
▪ The left-hand Deck controls TRAKTOR Decks A (on top) and C (below).
▪ The right-hand Deck controls TRAKTOR Decks B (on top) and D (below).
The following image and table give a detailed overview of the Deck's elements and provide
links referring to sections with further information.
Hardware Reference
The Deck
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