User Manual

▪ The Snap mode ensures that any Loop or Cue Point you set in a track will snap to the
closest beat.
▪ The Quantize mode ensures that any jump you make within the track will retain the phase
sync—may you jump to a Loop, a Cue Point or a beat.
Both Snap and Quantize modes can be enabled/disabled directly from your S4 by pressing the
corresponding buttons in the Master Display, on either side of the MASTER button:
The SNAP and QUANT buttons allow you to activate/deactivate Snap and Quantize mode, respectively.
Depending on what you are about to do, you can decide to enable or disable them at any time.
Here are a few examples:
▪ If you want to set a Loop starting directly on a beat, activate SNAP and press the Loop
SIZE encoder around the desired beat.
▪ On the contrary, should you wish to set a Cue Point at the beginning of some backing vo-
cals that don’t necessarily start on the beat, deactivate SNAP before pressing an unlit
Hotcue button.
▪ If you’re about to mix in a synched track and want the downbeats of both tracks to per-
fectly match, activate the QUANT button before you press PLAY (or some Hotcue button).
▪ On the other hand, if you want to jam around with a Sample loaded on a Remix Deck and
make some stutter-like effects by pressing the corresponding Hotcue button repeatedly,
you might prefer to deactivate QUANT to create repetitions shorter than a beat.
Locking the Key of Your Tracks
When synchronizing tracks, you alter their tempo, and consequently their pitch (or key). For
small tempo adjustments, this is not really serious; but when the tempo is changed more
frankly, the resulting pitch might get problematic: kick sounds would lose their power, vocals
would sound silly, etc.
To avoid this, TRAKTOR KONTROL S4 provides you with a Keylock feature that uncouples the
tone and the tempo of a track:
Tutorials
Synchronization
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