User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Title Page
- Disclaimer
- Contact
- Table of Contents
- 1 Welcome to the World of TRAKTOR KONTROL S2!
- 2 TRAKTOR KONTROL S2 Quick Overview
- 3 Preparing Your Music Library
- 4 Tutorials
- 4.1 Playing Your First Track
- 4.2 Mixing In a Second Track
- 4.2.1 Loading and Playing the Second Track
- 4.2.2 Using Headphones to Prepare the Mix
- 4.2.3 Synchronizing the Second Track
- 4.2.4 Setting a Cue Point as Starting Point
- 4.2.5 Interlude: In Case the Left Track Has Reached Its End
- 4.2.6 Mixing In the Track by Using the Channel EQ and Filter
- 4.2.7 Doing Everything by Hand
- 4.3 Adjusting Levels
- 4.4 Looping and Cueing
- 4.5 Using Samples in Your Mix
- 4.6 Adding FX
- 4.7 Synchronization
- 5 Using the S2 with TRAKTOR DJ
- 6 Hardware Overview
- 7 Hardware Control Reference
- 8 Customizing TRAKTOR KONTROL S2
- 9 The S2 Audio Interface and Control Panel
- 10 Troubleshooting and Help
- 11 Appendix A – Common Setups
- 12 Appendix B – Technical Information
- 13 Appendix C – Quick References
- Index
When converting audio information to digital and vice versa, the audio driver needs to store
the data in buffer packages (audio buffers) which are then sent to and processed by the
CPU. The higher the buffer size, the longer it takes for a signal to finally arrive at the out-
put as audio. You might experience this as late response in between hitting a key on a con-
troller which controls music software on your computer, and hearing sound at the output.
This delay is called latency. You should start off with a higher latency value, and gradually
decrease it until you find the perfect balance between playability and audio quality for your
system. If you experience crackling at the audio output, the latency value is very likely to
be too low for your computer’s CPU to cope with, as lower latency values cause a higher
load on the CPU.
9.2 Settings on Windows: The Control Panel
On Windows, the settings for the TRAKTOR KONTROL S2 audio interface are accessed via a
little tool called TRAKTOR KONTROL S2 Control Panel. The Control Panel was installed during
the TRAKTOR KONTROL S2 installation procedure. This section describes the TRAKTOR KON-
TROL S2 Control Panel user interface.
9.2.1 Opening the Control Panel
You can open the Control Panel in various ways:
►
From within TRAKTOR: Go to Preferences > Audio Setup and click the Settings button,
located at the right of the Latency slider and display:
►
From your desktop: Go to Start > Programs > Native Instruments > TRAKTOR KON-
TROL S2 > TRAKTOR KONTROL S2 Control Panel.
Here is what you get when opening the Control Panel:
On the left side, you find two tabs: Audio Settings and Diagnostics.
The S2 Audio Interface and Control Panel
Settings on Windows: The Control Panel
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