Ask me anything: Z1 MK2

MichaelK_NI

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/187778#Comment_187778

Hey,

sorry to hear this. If you feel like the S4 MK3 could be the one that will fit you best i think you should not hold back to give it a try. It is a great product with its motorised wheels and excessive input options.
Great thing is that it also comes with Traktor Pro 4 these days so you have a proper flagship setup in one box.

Hope this helps :)

MichaelK_NI

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/187793#Comment_187793

Hey JamusJae,

I hear you. With the Z1 we wanted to provide a very straight forward compact mixer and does not try to be more than that. We didnt want redundancy between the Z1 and the X1 where you have a little of browsing here and a little of browsing there. Same with Transport controls.

But at the same time we wanted to give users who just need a Play or a Sync button the possibility to make use of these functions on the Z1 as well. Here you see a screenshot of the Z1 MK2 preferences and you are able to make the big mixer FX button your shift button and then e.g. map Play and Sync to the shift layer of your EQ and STEM buttons. As an example.

MichaelK_NI

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/187800#Comment_187800

Hey DJ ÖMG,

we are pretty excited here too and are happy to see the community responses on the recent X1, Z1 and of course the Pro 4 releases.

Regarding the audio interface you should now see the specs in the Z1 MK2 technical details section of the product page here:

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/traktor/dj-controllers/traktor-z1/specifications/

Let me know if this works for you.

MichaelK_NI

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/187940#Comment_187940

Hey,

sorry to hear that. I forwarded this to our QA team to have a closer look and see if we can reproduce the issue here as well.

Regarding your overmapping request. So you would like to be able to overmap controls depending on the EQ or Stems mode? I think this might become an issue with the Master Volume control as Stems and EQ modes are per channel and Master is a global control. How should it behave when only one channel is in EQ mode?

Let me know what you think.

MichaelK_NI

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/187953#Comment_187953

Hey,

yes I agree. It would make sense for all these units to communicate with each other from the start but this would also mean that they would get released later. Now we delivered what we think is a great and fun featureset for most users and it is exactly these kind of conversations that we are having here now to understand which additions we should make next and which will be most valuable to all of you. So keep them coming.

The loudest request so far is being able to use two Z1 MK2s. So this is something that we are looking at right now to make it available rather short term already.

MichaelK_NI

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/187962#Comment_187962

If it is only a Play button that you need this would actually work as you can remap any button that you dont need to e.g. Play or enable a Shift layer and add Play to the Shift Layer of a button. This works very easily in the dedicated Z1 MK2 preferences.

Hope this helps.

treetop sf

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/188048#Comment_188048

Thank you for fwd my driver error and bug report :)

I would like to re-map track gains in EQ mode.
Because of Autogain, i dont change the track gain very often. In the very rare case that i need to change the gain, i have no problem using the trackpad or mouse. So in EQ mode for me, its like having 2 wasted knobs.

Master volume is also something i rarely change once it is set, and would be nice to assign to; a pattern player in say, deck c… or, any anything else that i would use more frequently.

With the old Z1, i had the gains mapped to FX units 1 &2, wet/ dry. I don't think you can re-map its master volume… wasted knob.

Overthrow

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/187982#Comment_187982

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/188020#Comment_188020

Yeah, I figured that out pretty quickly. Instead of 5, you have 4. No problem.

Kaiwan_NI

Thanks everyone for your questions and participation - and a big thanks to @MichaelK_NI for joining us in the community for this Z1 MK2 AMA. We're wrapping up the AMA now, so I’ll go ahead and close this thread. Stay tuned for future sessions. 👋