Traktor?

DjAnibal Laracuente

It's time to give up, or rather, I've already given up. The best effects and a great workflow, but no one is doing anything to improve it. Waiting and waiting isn't the solution for me. Welcome to Reckordbox and the rest. I feel like I'm a little behind, but other software is already on par with Traktor. It's time to change. Thanks for such great software, but you've left us alone. Bye.

maniacintosh81

If Rekordbox or another DJ software suits your needs better it is your choice to change. Have fun with it and many great mixes.

But what do you want to tell the community with your post? (Keep in mind that most users here are just users of NI products just as you and I). What are you exactly missing?

Of course I would wish a quicker release cycle for Traktor - especially more little updates which ease bugs and little quirks much quicker. For myself most things I am really missing are more or less small things which are in most cases are usability improvements.

Real time stems? Yeah would be nice, but do I really want to mix with Stems where I cannot be sure that they are split correctly? Are all vocals are really in the vocals track and is there nothing other essential part of the song in it? To avoid this you have to prepare the track and prelisten it before your set. And once prepared it will be same every single time. If it is created live a software update with changes to the algorithm can change the behaviour.

More hardware support out of the box? Yes would really appreciate this. But NI wants to sell its own hardware. My Kontrol S4 Mk3 doesn't work with Rekordbox or Serato either. And as long as it speaks MIDI you can map EVERYTHING! to Traktor Pro. Traktor works with any audio interface recognized by your computer. A much better approach than the Serato ****** which only works with special blessed holy hardware approved by Serato. You own a Xone:96 with a perfectly capable audio interface in it? Sorry even if you buy our Club Kit license, no way except using a special external audio interface (which are currently only available for up to three decks/channels). Nobody can tell me that there are technical reasons for this. Even rekordbox works with third party hardware!

Newer own hardware offerings? Yes of course, would be nice. F1 Mk2 is still missing. A D2 Mk2 would be great (but will most likely never come). Refreshed versions of S2, S3 and S4 nice. But to be honest I am missing not much on my S4 which wouldn't require to bloat it into oversized monster. (A S4/S8 hybrid would be cool, but S8 was larger anyway and adding jogs would make it even larger. Nothing to take on the road anymore.) And a Traktor Audio 10 Mk2 would be much appreciated by me too. Have a TA10 but if it should break there is no suitable replacement on the market anymore.

But what are you missing?