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
2. In the window that opens, click Next to confirm your S2 is connected.
3. The next window asks you whether you want to use an external mixer with TRAKTOR. Se-
lect Yes, as you will be using the controller's mixer for mixing with TRAKTOR.
4. The next window asks what combination of Deck Flavors you would like to use in TRAK-
TOR. Select 2 Track Decks + 2 Remix Decks from the drop-down menu, and click Next.
5. Click Finish to confirm your selection and close the Setup Wizard.
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TRAKTOR is now optimized for use with your S2 controller.
One more thing: Using an external mixer, TRAKTOR assumes you do not want to see the soft-
ware mixer on the user interface. But we do want to see what's happening in the software's
mixer when controlling it from the S2. So what we need to do now is change TRAKTOR's inter-
face appearance with the Layout selection drop-down menu in the following way:
►
Click on the drop-down menu next to the magnifying glass symbol in TRAKTOR's Header
and select Mixer from the list.
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You can now see TRAKTOR's mixer in the middle of the user interface.
4.1.1 Quick-Loading a Track
Let’s load the track “Techno 1” from the included demo tracks on to Deck A. To select and
load the track, we will use these control elements on your S2:
▪ Any of the two SHIFT buttons (one at the bottom of each Deck):
Tutorials
Playing Your First Track
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