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
Control element Function
LOOP IN button Sets a Floating Cue Point at the current playback position without stopping
the playback. This Floating Cue Point will serve as Loop In Point when you
press the LOOP OUT button (see below).
Lights up together with LOOP OUT when playback is within an active Loop.
In Loop: Hold to adjust Loop In Point with jog wheel.
LOOP OUT button Sets a Loop Out Point at current playback position and activates a Floating
Loop between the previously set Floating Cue Point and this Loop Out Point.
Looping active: Lights up together with LOOP IN when playback is within
the active Loop, lights up alone when playback is outside the active Loop.
In Loop: Hold to adjust Loop Out Point with jog wheel.
LOOP MOVE encoder deactivates the set loop.
When loop active: Turn to move the loop in steps of its size (as displayed in
the Loop Controls in the software). SHIFT + turn to move the Loop by 1-beat
steps.
When no loop active: Turn to jump in track by the selected Loop size (as
displayed in the Loop Controls in the software). SHIFT + Turn to jump by 1-
beat steps.
LOOP SIZE encoder Push: deactivates/activates the loop. Activating looping automatically sets a
Floating Loop at current playback position with the selected Loop size.
Turn (no loop active): selects a Loop size (in beats) for the next Floating
Loop that will be set. The selected Loop size is displayed in the Loop Con-
trols in the software.
Turn (loop active): halves/doubles the size of the current Loop.
PLAY button Starts/stops playback. Button lights up when playing.
SHIFT + PLAY: activates/deactivates Keylock (KEYLOCK indicator right
above the Loop In and Loop Out buttons in the software's Loop Controls
lights up).
CUE button Deck playing: jumps to Floating Cue Point and stops playback.
Deck paused: sets a new Floating Cue Point. Track is played back from that
Floating Cue Point as long as CUE is held depressed. Upon release, play-
back stops and jumps back to Floating Cue Point.
SHIFT + CUE: skips back to start of track (playback state left untouched).
Appendix C – Quick References
Quick Reference
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