When you want to get fancier, it also makes it far more comfortable to slice live or remix live. The D2 gives you a single, consistent workflow for preparing tracks, making them sound correctly on the grid (as that automatic sync often isn’t as musical as your ears are), and when you are ready to play, browsing through tracks, cueing, and looping.
It’s less great that Traktor often seems resistant to the things you want to do with it out of the box.Īnd that’s why the D2 is important – perhaps more than the gargantuan S8.
TRAKTOR KONTROL D2 FULL
Right now, workflow in Traktor is a mishmash of keyboard shortcuts, tangled controller mappings, confusing dialog boxes full of preferences, and … sorry, weren’t we trying to accomplish some simple DJing here? It’s great that a robust community of serious DJs have hacked together custom solutions – and I hope that continues. It gets the whole workflow on your hardware. There are two USB ports on the back for chaining, plus a power splitter so you can get enough electricity into your hardware from a single dongle. So, sounds like Traktor 3 is probably arriving in summer. “Stem Decks” are coming: yes, to support that new Stems format, you’ll have what NI calls “Stem Decks” in addition to the current Remix Decks. All of this is mapped in advance, as it should be, for Traktor. One unit controls everything: transport controls, cue points, loops, Remix Decks. Mostly, none of the following should come as a surprise, even if we now get greater clarity:
TRAKTOR KONTROL D2 UPGRADE
But still… now I’m curious what the upgrade path will be if there’s a new version of Traktor around the corner, and there’s reason to believe here there is.) (If you already own Traktor, though, you can’t resell it – it’s tied to the hardware.
That price is doubly impressive now that it includes TRAKTOR PRO 2. (If NI is getting their part cost down, I wonder if we might soon see a display like this on a Maschine other than the Studio – which is great, since the Studio is kinda huge.)
Native Instruments’ Traktor Kontrol D2 deck was all but revealed at WMC, but now we’re finding out more clearly how everything comes together.Īnd we know the price: the unit is US$499 (499€ / £429), even with that nice color display.
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