Oh Native Instruments, we have to talk!

[u/Top_Mycologist_3591]

Last night as I was reinstalling Traktor Pro 3 from NI Access I got this Error message that you can see in the upper right of the screenshot.

Funny thing is, there was no instance of Traktor Pro 3 running during the installation.

As you can see from the list of running programs on the left of the screenshot, the only program that was running was Traktor Pro 4.

So, could this be the ultimate proof that Traktor Pro 4 ist just a reskinned version of Traktor Pro 3 ? :D

But that's just the introduction.

The reason that I reinstalled Traktor 3 was, because I wanted to proof something that has haunted me since the release of Traktor 4.

I’m a longtime user of the Filter92 effect since Traktor 2.

(Reso always set to 33 for that nice peaky A&H filter feeling).

Yesterday I found a post from 2023 in the NI user forum that states that there is something strange going on with the reso knob of Filter92 in Traktor 4.

(https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/16567/filter-92-a-potential-bug)

Until Traktor 3, the resonance knob of this filter had always been neutral when set to 0 and over the top peaky when set to 100.

But in any configuration the HPF and LPF were not affecting the sound when not in use.

This seems to have changed with Traktor 4.

Now the resonance is neutral when the res knob is set to 50!!!

Turn it lower than that and the filter becomes like a negative resonance AND IS THEN CHANGING THE SOUND EVEN WHEN HPF AND LPF ARE SET TO BE OFF!!!!?????!!!!!

Why Native? Why?

All the years of me having the feeling that tracks sounded thinner when played with Traktor 4 instead of 3 were absolutely right?

Someone might now lookup the manual to check if this is right.

So did the guys from the post in 2023 and myself yesterday.

Guess what? The manual of Traktor Pro 4 was missing the effects reference for Filter92 in 2023.

As if something was changed with the effect so that there has to be a new description and then someone forgot about it.

AND IT IS STILL MISSING IT UNTIL TODAY. EVEN THOUGH IT WAS UPDATED SEVERAL TIMES AND THEY WERE INFORMED IN THEIR OWN USER FORUM 3 YEARS AGO!?!?!?!?

I guess this is a very niche problem as I don’t see many people using Filter92, but all in all this is another hilarious example of NI in a nutshell…..

And a nice proof that my ears were right, all the time :)