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
▪ Connection Monitor: displays client-to-driver connections and USB data errors when de-
tected.
▪ System Performance Test: offers the possibility to run a performance test to measure la-
tency values.
▪ Information: displays information on driver and firmware version. There is also a link to
the Troubleshooting Guide here.
Drop-Out Detection Section
The Drop-Out Detection section holds two displays and a button:
▪ USB I/O Errors: counts USB input/output errors. A high USB I/O Errors count points to
your system being overloaded.
▪ Buffer Underruns: Buffer underruns occur when your computer isn’t able to process an
audio buffer in time. Reasons for underruns can be too many ongoing background tasks or
high CPU usage within a music program that uses the device as audio driver.
▪ Reset: A click on this button resets the error count.
Connection Monitor Section
The Connection Monitor section holds two displays and a button:
▪ Number of Clients: displays the number of clients connected to the interface. Multiple
ASIO applications are counted separately, WDM and WASAPI increase the number by
one, no matter how many WDM/WASAPI applications play audio.
▪ USB Data Errors: counts USB data errors. Poor quality or long cables as well as irradiation
can be the source of data errors on the USB bus.
▪ Reset: A click on this button resets the error count.
System Performance Test Section
▪ Current Latency: Click on the Start button below to display the current latency value here.
▪ Maximum Latency: displays the highest value that was during the current measuring cy-
cle.
The S2 Audio Interface and Control Panel
Settings on Windows: The Control Panel
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