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3. When both tracks are running together and you want to bring the bass back in, gradually
decrease the bass amount of channel A while simultaneously increasing that of channel
B.
4. Complete the transition by gradually moving the crossfader all the way to the right.
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You just did your first mix with TRAKTOR KONTROL S4!
4.2.8 Doing Everything by Hand
You can also do your mix manually instead of using TRAKTOR’s sync and cueing facilities.
Most probably, you won’t do everything by hand in your everyday DJ work. Nevertheless, it is a
good idea to get familiar with the “handcrafted” way:
▪ It can be necessary when synching to a playing vinyl record or to the previous DJ.
▪ You can combine it with TRAKTOR’s advanced features, thus further developing your own
mixing style.
To show this, let’s mix a new track on Deck A with the one we just mixed in on Deck B.
From now on, the track on Deck B is “on air,” i.e. it is heard by your audience. Hence, we will
now exclusively work on the left Deck, which controls Deck A in the software.
First Steps
1. First check that the crossfader is at full right.
2. With the track on Deck B still playing, load the track “House 1” onto Deck A (reminder:
turn the BROWSE encoder to select the track in the list, then push LOAD on the left
Deck).
At first, it may help to select a track with a similar BPM.
3. Press PLAY on the left Deck to start the playback of the new track.
4. On the same Deck, make sure the SYNC button is off.
5. On the Mixer, deactivate the CUE button above channel B’s fader and activate that of
channel A to hear the new track in the headphone mix (you might need to adjust the CUE
MIX knob accordingly).
Tutorials
Mixing In a Second Track
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