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Dear TRAKTOR Community, thanks for your engagement in this thread, and on behalf of the whole team, we’re sorry for the radio silence since the first message I posted here. We’ve been busy analyzing your survey responses and deriving plans, and most importantly we have been exploring the potential implications for TRAKTOR coming from our close relationship with Izotope - our new sister company.
Let me try to answer the questions you’ve been asking and discussing here. Hope this will cover most of your thoughts.
1. The survey: The response was again overwhelming as for all of our past surveys - we received a total of 1551 reponses. Big thanks to everyone who participated - we appreciate each and every response as well as the time, passion and loyalty that you invested. Some of you were asking why we’ve been conducting one survey per year. Given the various changes and trends in our industry, we believe that engaging with you frequently is crucial because we want to make sure that what we’re working on is what you actually need. To be clear, we are working on the top requested features that have been mentioned. We hope you understand that we can’t publish the full ranking of the requested features, but we want to share with you that you can expect news soon on FX and a drum machine module. All other requests, such as flexible beatgrids, browser improvements, or further streaming services have been heard as well and they are on our midterm roadmap too.
2. Subscription: Telling from the discussion in this thread, the fact that we asked about your preference regarding payment plans made some of you assume that we’ve decided to switch TRAKTOR Software to a subscription only model. This is not the case. Our research has shown that 9.1% of responders would switch to a TRAKTOR subscription, and 18.4% would be interested in an Add-On Subscription unlocking special features, while 72.5% would prefer to keep the status quo. Apparently there is interest in various scenarios, which is why we are working on an attractive offering for all needs. More specifically, this means that we are committed to respect the status quo and in near future will offer new, additional options to engage with TRAKTOR at different price points and for different needs.
3. Codebase: As there are some codebase related comments, let me assure you that we’re continuing working on a future-proof, modern and flexible codebase. Part of the perceived silence around TRAKTOR is due to the fact that relevant parts of our development capacities are currently dedicated to this renewal and merger of the codebase, which will enable user facing benefits, such as native M1 support, a new user interface and ultimately: faster development cycles. Don’t expect that one ‘big bang’ though. We’re migrating to the future codebase in increments while working on several aspects behind the scenes that may not be immediately visible. With every quarter though, we’re moving closer to the UI based updates that many of you have been waiting for.
4. Hardware: As mentioned before, we’re working on an exciting piece of hardware as we speak. We have to ask you for your understanding that we cannot provide any further details, but you should know that the future of TRAKTOR hardware is being worked on. There has also been the question about integrating more 3rd party controllers. We just want to say that we have heard you and that we agree with you. We definitely want more of these integrations to see the light of day, especially once we’ve made more progress around our codebase (see 3.).
Last but not least, we want to re-emphasize that we want to engage more frequently with you: a quarterly roadmap update and more frequent responses to your burning questions.
Please rest assured we continue working hard every day to build the products we all are so excited and passionate about. Once again, a warm thank you from Berlin - and looking forward to reading your thoughts!
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thank you for the encouraging update. Really good and exciting to hear all you have stated. Presently I love my S8 and TP3. Looking forward to the next chapter and what that will bring.
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Apologies for the delay on this one, Pedram shared a bit more what's happening just above and it took everyone a bit more time to cover everything. As he mentioned, we'll share more updates regularly and the community team (myself, Kai and Nico) will bring your questions to them frequently.
Excited for what's to come!
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Excellent stuff i'm just hoping that you don't decide to ditch the stems format. You were years ahead of the competition and it would be criminal to give up just as the software technology is about to catch up with the great forward looking hardware you released back in 2015 (S8 D2 S5 etc) I'm guessing izotope input would greatly help I already use Rx9 exclusively for use with Traktor.....................We wait with fingers crossed
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Thanks for the response Matt.
Maybe my reply was tinged with a lot of frustration, but having used Traktor since 2008 I still believe in it and can see the potential, so have continued to use the software.
I really hope the limitations of the codebase don't delay long awaited features like Tidal, Denon Prime support and elastic beatgrids.
Thanks again and look forward to hearing more.
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Exciting! Thanks for letting us know.
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Thanks for the update guys. Looking forward to the next release and official feature announcements soon.
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More mappings Stevan from your wonderful self 🤣😍🤣
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If the new hardware is an all in one unit, with ability to add turntables, I will defo purchase. If not I’ll love my S8 and rock out with TP4.
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Just curious, have you ever tried the S4 MK3?
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Thanks for the update!
I am curious where the drum machine came into play. Was that a requested feature?
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Yes indeed - as said, we're working on the top requested features.
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Let’s hope something like Maschine Jam mk2 bridging some workflows.
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Wow.. lots of great info to chew on in this message!
Hopeful that it applies to all areas of NI products.
Thanks for sharing in such a clear manner.
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Yes I used to own one. I sold it and went away from NI for a while. When I came back I went for the S8 as you can be more creative. I think so anyways.
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