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LOOP IN and LOOP OUT Buttons
The LOOP IN and LOOP OUT buttons
The LOOP IN and LOOP OUT buttons allow you to manually define a Floating Loop in the play-
ing Track Deck / Remix Deck.
Pressing the LOOP IN button sets a Floating Cue Point at the current playback position. This
Floating Cue Point will serve as Loop In Point as soon as you press the LOOP OUT button.
Hint: The LOOP IN button is the perfect tool for setting a Floating Cue Point without stop-
ping the playback, whether you set a Loop Out Point later or not!
Pressing the LOOP OUT button sets a Loop Out Point at the current playback position and acti-
vates a Floating Loop between the previously set Floating Cue Point and this Loop Out Point.
You can reuse the same Loop In Point for several Loops: simply set a new Loop Out Point,
and the previous Loop In Point will be used for the new Floating Loop!
The LOOP IN and LOOP OUT buttons also act as indicator: they light up simultaneously to in-
dicate that a Loop is running. If looping is active but the playback position is outside any
Loop, only the LOOP OUT lights up.
When a Loop is running, you can fine-tune its Loop In and Loop Out Points by holding the cor-
responding button depressed and using the jog wheel:
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Hold the LOOP IN or LOOP OUT button depressed and spin the jog wheel to adjust the
Loop In or Loop Out Point of the running Loop.
Bear in mind that all your actions affect a Floating Loop (and not the original Stored Loop, if
any). Hence, if you plan to use the modified Loop later, don’t forget to store it! For example,
you can do this by assigning the Loop to a Hotcue slot (see section ↑6.3.10, Hotcue Buttons).
Storing Loops to a Hotcue slot is only available for Track Decks.
The LOOP IN and LOOP OUT buttons can also have alternate functions when switched to
Auto Loop mode. You can do this in Preferences > Traktor KONTROL S4 > S4 Control Op-
tions. See section ↑7.3, S4 Control Options for more info.
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