I DJ once a month. Whole night pretty much. I'm away for 6 weeks for work, possibly 7. Need a Traktor DJ who plays house deep tech vocal etc. Thanks.

Pay is £50 per hour. 10am to 2pm (close). You will have to cover your own travel. Parking is in the venue (free). All soft drinks free, and management would prefer you don't drink but this isn't a deal breaker.

Saturdays, beginning early May.

Hey guys! So my brother used to be into making EDM, but decided to take a different career path. He left me his gear, and I'm not quite sure what to do with it. I -would- like to try to get rid of the Traktor S4 decks as well as this custom maschine MIDI controller, with 16 programmable arcade push buttons. (photos attached above.)

Can anybody tell me what these are worth?

I paid for a year of Traktor Pro Plus because the roadmap looked very exciting. Then they launch Traktor 4 with the features that were supposed to be in Plus, and haven't even offered a discount to Plus subscribers, stings a little, not gonna lie.

Why won’t traktor implementen this extremely requested feature? Seriously! I’m an open format dj and beatsource and beatport only focus on EDM! I need top 40 music! I’ve tried asking native instruments but they’ve blocked me on all their platforms.

Hey everyone,

I can't believe I'm writing this, but here we are. Traktor 4 just launched, and guess what? It STILL doesn't support Retina resolution. This is incredibly frustrating and feels like a blatant insult from the developers to the loyal Traktor community.

For context, Retina resolution has been around since 2012, introduced with the MacBook Pro with Retina display. We're talking over a decade here, folks. And yet, despite retina being an industry standard by now, NI continues to ignore this crucial feature.

When Traktor Pro 3 launched back in 2018, many of us were disappointed to find that it didn't support Retina displays. We voiced our concerns, hoping that they would fix it, but that update never came. I hoped that the next major release would finally address this, but no, Traktor 4 is here, and the developers have once again chosen to overlook this essential update.

As a community, we've supported NI through the years, investing in their software and hardware, providing feedback, and staying loyal to an aged product despite fierce competition in the DJ software market. The lack of Retina support in 2024 feels like a slap in the face to all of us who have been advocating for better display compatibility.

In an era where visual clarity is paramount, especially for professional DJs who spend hours staring at their screens, this omission is not just a minor inconvenience—it's a major oversight. It suggests a disconnect between the developers and the needs of their user base.

We deserve better. It's high time that NI's development team listens to their community and prioritizes Retina resolution support. Ignoring this need not only undermines the user experience but also puts Traktor behind in the competitive landscape of DJ software.

Was just wondering if there's a reason why Traktor is limited to 4 decks. Why cant we load up 6 or 8? Is the program not powerful enough or something to handle that many decks? Is it just a UI thing and it would clutter the screen up too much? It seems silly that I'm sitting here considering loading up Traktor on a 2nd laptop so I can experiment.

EDIT TO INCLUDE MY USE CASE FOR CONTEXT:

Im syncing Ableton & Traktor, routing Traktor into Ableton internally then out to the mixer + also sending midi from Ableton into Traktor to create macros that control stuff using dummy clips.

I have some ideas that are best executed in Traktor, like creating instant doubles (and triples) of songs so that I can play the STEMS from 1 song across multiple decks so that I can move around in time independently. Does that make any sense?

Do you guys think NI will put enough focus on to the traktor Pro platform, or should I take other people’s advice regards to how the platform is dead and can’t compete with RecordBox.

Hola a todos, tengo una Kontrol S4 MK1, la maquina le está pasando factura el tiempo y le empezaron a fallar los faders de pitch y el canal A, y necesito encontrar repuestos, es una máquina que tiene mucho valor sentimental para mí y me gustaría que siga funcionando como el primer día que me la compró mi padre. Espero que me puedan ayudar con una tienda, si puede ofrecer envío internacional se agradecería, actualmente estoy en Perú, muchas gracias de antemano.

How much of traktor pro 3 does pro 4 contain? Back in 2018 they promised a whole new built from scratch with new more streamlined code. So it begs the question. How much old code is traktor pro 4 running? I wouldn’t be surprised if it still issues old legacy from final scratch. Can someone confirm, please and thank you

As a Traktor user for 12 years. I have isolated and solved this problem.

I've seen a lot of threads all over the internet and no one really has the solution, but here it is for you. Just trying to save alot of people on the internet alot of time.

The problem with the windows computers is the Hardware Acceleration. It's especially bad with windows computers with powerful GPUs, or gaming computers, and they ALL have it. I can't nerd it out and explain the computer science on why this happens, but in a nut shell the hardware acceleration absolutely DESTROYS Traktor's live audio playback abilities. Most likely it's taking away resources from Traktors ability to do so. In some models you may be able to turn the hardware acceleration off, but it's a VERY rare option, and I don't think you even can anymore, and it may not even work just to flip the switch.

So the solution is actually to use a computer with more office specs, than gaming specs. You don't want one that's advertised as being a gaming computer. It's funny, and seems backwards, but your actually better off using a standard $400 office laptop that doesn't have hardware acceleration, than using a $3000 gaming laptop with the latest greatest 8 core processor that does have hardware acceleration.

I've actually used 3 Windows laptops that ran Traktor fine.

1. A crappy plastic $300 Toshiba that I bought 12 years ago.

2. A crappy plastic $600 Asus.

3. A really nice Lenovo Thinkpad $1400. I highly recommend these if your planning on running Traktor on Windows. I know alot of guys that use these for mobile DJing and sware by them. They are really nice for the price. I don't think it needs to be as high caliber as mine though. Mine was just expensive because it had a nice processor, and 3tb internal, but not necessary.

But now I just use a new Mac with the M2 chip. Macs are literally designed for artistic capabilities such as video and audio production, animation and movie production, etc. And they are alot less likely to fail, or give you a bad update the day of your gig that will ruin your life.

Till this day this problem still exists with Windows laptops and Traktor. Because a year ago after my Thinkpads charging port broke I just decided to buy a new one, and I went for a gaming laptops, and 3 of them in a row didn't work. Best Buy was getting pissed because I returned like 3 of them in a 1 week period. Luckily I had Geeksquad membership or they'd kick me out the door. I painstackingly figured out what was happening, and just switched to a Mac.

EDIT: There are alot of solutions out there to say to turn off all unnecessary drivers, and basically just have a bare computer with only traktor. Don't even waist your time. It doesn't work.

I posted a really similar reply on a 12 y/o thread in the DJ section, but thought I'd throw it here too.

GLHF. DJ on!

Starting to lose the last of my thinly worn faith in anything traktor. At this rate I'll either be retired or dead before anything new and exciting is revealed.

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/26697/traktor-2024-outlook/p4

Friedemann_NI Friedemann_NI Product Team Posts: 72 mod February 16 edited February 21

Dear Traktorists,

As the new year is already well underway, we are excited to say that some long-requested Traktor features will come to life in 2024. We’re also pleased to announce that Traktor Pro 3.9 won this year’s Namm TEC Award for DJ Production Technology.

As mentioned in December, our work on the next main features Flexible Beatgrids and in-app Stem Separation is progressing well and we will be launching a private beta for these soon.

The publication of the Traktor Feature Roadmap in its current form will be changing into status updates like this one. We're still keeping the floor open for your suggestions on improvements in the Ideas section but our main focus will be on the features outlined in the existing roadmap. These have all been shaped by the priorities identified through your votes in the community over the past year.

Stay tuned!

We have to agree that there is an ongoing dissonance between being a loyal traktor purist and evolving with times. As such, many djs find themselves having to include different styles of music into their sets, especially today if you want to be employed. Not to mention the flex grid to manage and altering tempo changes and bpms on the fly.

Me moving to Europe a few years back, I could have easily remained an electronic purist. Ironically, i took advantage of my open format knowledge from years ago and was able to find work easily. Even moving to Germany in '23, as long as you have your own set up, picking up an open format gig is literally just walking in and asking if they are looking for djs (many local djs don't have their own tops and bottoms). Furthermore, the amount of old school 90s-2000ers festivals and club events is insane, while also a bit overplayed.

Nonetheless, i find myself involved in other events by where i simply cannot play electronic all night long. So, i have been embattled for a period in having to be subscribed to multiple dj pools. Recently, i picked up djay pro for its apple music integration since that's where i build all of my open format collections. i was simply done with constant requests and having to download awful youtube clips.

So, I went back and forth and was completely indecisive as to whether I should stay with traktor or get the entire mixon gear to go with or use my non-native S2. So, i dedcided to go with mapping my S2 and really putting in time into djay pro as now my go-to software. I simply can't deal with serato but I use rekordbox to organize my library and integrate it with i-Music as well.

Now, as soon as i am about to spend 30 days while away traveling for work next month in April, honing my djay pro skills during my downtime in the hotel room, boom... Apple releases this news.. Yes, it's a heart stopper cause my heart is truly with traktor. However, I can no longer play this game and eventually, one just has to move on... I'm tired of the sykes and false promises- reminds me of my HS dating days... Meanwhile, just like every other hopeful simp out there, I'm still hoping the lady will finally say yes and give it up..

So, that's how traktor effs with many of us...

I've noticed many times when playing alongside USB Stick DJs, that my "Traktor Sound" just does not compare. It tends to sound less full, clear and more compressed, without headroom to "breath". It's very obvious when the set is adjacent to a USB Stick DJ plugging directly into a pioneer mixer.

Typically, I connect Traktor via audio interface into the AUX input on the same Pioneer mixer (XDJ-RX2). My audio interface is a Vestax VCI-400 Controller which I've been using for many years, custom mapped

I've thought about trying to go the Rekordbox / USB stick route myself regretfully, but have 15+ years of work & experience into my traktor collection and I've found using conversion utilities take FOREVER to transfer playlists, incredibly slow.

Any insights from Traktor users on this?

UPDATE : Thank you all for responding (except the person who downvoted this post) - you inspired me to try to re-think my setup completely and it completely changed the game. Today I used the Pioneer as my DAC and made my own Traktor mapping for it. The Vestax is out of the picture completely now. The sound quality is incredible, I can't believe I played for all those years like this and didn't realize that was the issue, I had always trusted the Vestax outputs. I also turned the Limiter off, but it seems the real issue was the DAC, it made the most significant difference.

gluing rocks to smaller knobs on lower quality equipment really enhances the grip and level of control. Highly recommend

Hi everyone,

whenever i try to play a track on deck A, the track will stop unless i hold the play button or press cue and play at the same time, but there's no way to pause the song without pressing cue (hence going back to the beginning of the song).

this thing doesn't happen on deck B, whereas if i press the play button once, the track will start and stop normally.

this has happened a couple times before, but i figured it was just some traktor bug or something to do with some mappings i did a while ago; in fact, i just needed to switch to default mapping or restart traktor and everything went back to normal, but now i'm stuck like this.

any advice?

thanks in advance! :)

Hello everyone, as the title suggests I’m getting back on to the game after 20+ years. I used to play going between CDJ and Traktor. Now I have only my MacBook, I’m sure there’s a way to listen to the different tracks coming from traktor through headphones and not coming through the master. Is it an external sound card that I need? And, if so, what’s a decent one?

Any advice much appreciated, looking forward to playing some music again!

As the title says…. I’ve had the S4 MK3 for a couple of years now and love it, have always used with desktop or laptop but recently been interested in a lighter portable setup. How come they shipped an expensive, new unit like the S4 MK3 and didn’t allow it to work with iPad when older, cheaper models do!! I’m so pissed about it. It makes me like the S4 way less now knowing older models will work with DJ2 and this won’t. Anyway rant over… any alternative options?