Traktor Pro 4, how do I set and/or move a "Floating Cue Point"?

nightizm

From the docs: "Floating Cue Point: The Floating Cue Point is always your starting point for working with cue points and for storing loops. The Floating Cue Point is displayed in white."

It rarely places in the right spot after the initial analyze so it shows up far away from the beginning… I can set every type of cue point except that one. It seems the only way to move it is by holding "grid" on my S4 and moving the jog wheel. This is not ideal if the Floating Cue Point is really far away after analyzing (pictured below). There has to be a way to do it with just the software, correct? What am I missing?

Also, how come my first cuepoint is always white, and when I delete it there's no way to set another white cue point, I can only have blue or yellow for a "load" cue point.

First picture shows the initial analyze of the track, "floating cue point" in the wrong spot, first white cue point in the wrong spot, overall terrible job by the software.

Second picture shows me fixing the grid, adding a load marker, but still having the "floating cue point" being in the wrong place.

Third picture just shows how annoying it looks when I have the floating cue not at the beginning.

Sûlherokhh

The white bar with the triangle on top is not the floating cue point but a grid marker. To set and delete them you have to go to advanced→grid layout, not advanced→cue layout.

The floating cue is the triangle at the bottom. You set it by pressing the cue button when the track is not playing at the needle position, or by activating or setting a hotcue. It's the point on the timeline the track jumps to when pressing cue while the track is running, stopping the track, or replaying when using CUP (Cue And Play).

zephry

Are those tracks streaming from Beatport or Beatsource? There is a glitch at the beginning of some tracks when analyzing streaming tracks vs. a purchased and downloaded track.

I have tested them very thoroughly. Using exact same tracks from Beatport. This is also not just a Traktor issue. I have read posts from other software using the streaming with the same results.

If you try to move the marker on those tracks. You need to set another usually about 4 bars(beats) in anyway to correct the grid. Switching or forcing it to the beginning messed up the grid every time when testing.

I wrote a long explanation of this about a year ago.

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/11422/my-beatport-waveform-workaround