I'm pretty excited. Wonder how much it'll cost to upgrade for Traktor Scratch Pro owners..

@aerial: it´s 69€ if you just want the new software...

wwaaawww

I knew it....When Pioneer revealed their latest Traktor Controller with a set-up that exactly mirrored TSPRO (like NI should have done a long time ago) - it was near the end of TSPRO1.

:::::My nose is smelling a new Maschine too by year's end (and not just the drool over version 1.6 that's supposedly coming with plug-in hosting capabilities) :::::::::

-MoMo

Great update. I'm really not looking forward to having to wait a couple of months for it though! Want, want, want.

Amazing. Thanks NI

Isn't this version the same one that dubfire used with the S4 controller in the video that NI released on 2010?

could see this coming after they slashed the price by 50% for the current version

just a bunch of crap.
reald djs play with real vinyls.
and if somebody wants to play his own music,
hook up two drum machines, a synth and a sampler.
this is digital inconsistence.
or
just to those wanna be djs who don´t want to learn to mix and just want to press a button:
or
for old glories, who don´t want to make any effort anymore.

old glories lol?....music is about the message not how it gets there, no one cares about that, so do what you have to do xx

Haha, great trolling A*

Want.

Does they will stop after that? haha!

No the version Dubfire used was the S4 version, this is an update on that.

I really wish people like you would stop going on about real DJ's playing vinyl, biggest load of rubbish out there.

I played Vinyl up until 3 years ago when I moved to CD's and now use Traktor with Controllers. If all it takes to be a DJ is to purely play Vinyl then there are a lot of so called DJ's out there.

Let me put this is clearly and concisely as I can,

CLUBBERS DONT CARE WHAT DJ'S USE TO PLAY MUSIC

From the dawn of DJ's its the music not the medium that draws crowds so pull your head out the sand and realise you need to just get on with what you do and us DJ's that don't use Vinyl will get with what we do.

brilliant, can't wait!

Nice, taking a leaf out of Serato's book on a couple of things, but wouldn't mind having a play on this. TSPro's pretty awesome, so can't see any need for me to upgrade yet...

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.

Charles Darwin

anyone know if it's still possible to use the audio 8 with the new software?

NI Rocks...!!Can't wait for T2

hillarious post - this wannabe elitist bs talk never gets old

Like Nick states... I do love comments by dinosaurs!!!

Trakor is a superb piece of software. It is not for DJs who can't mix but DJs who want to uise their time to be far more creative. Beat matching is just an ego centric skill that only the DJ benefits from. I love having Traktor at my fingertips. It allows me to create so much on the fly.

Even if I had 2 drum machines, a synth and a sampler I don't think I'd be able to make as much music as I can 'in the box', and I might not have the scope for playing it granted by Traktor Pro. Nevertheless, if I had endless money and literally huge muscles and a humungous apartment then I reckon it would be fun to be an analogue purist.

These kind of statements always make me laugh.

I admit that most of the time i use vinyl...BUT...i would never dream of making a ridiculous comment like this.

I also have traktor which i use to be more creative...there are different methods for fifferent levels of creativity and i think to embrace them all and learn from them all is a good DJ.

For example... Just because Smoke signals and messenger piegons were the "Original" way of communicating you dont see everyone trashing their mobile phones now because it is "too easy"...change can be good, technology has allowed us to create new sounds and play with them with hardly any limitations...and i love it!

Rant over! lol

Today's technology is amazing

It's about time traktor had an upgrade really looking forward to seeing how's this new wave form works!

Looks great,looking foward to its release,hopefully it will reduce the price of the older Traktor products so that others can afford to take the leap.

This is so funny and so sad.... The update announcement still sparks another form of the analog vs digital debate that's a dead topic to most of us.

Sure, if you go live that would be great but this is for DJ'ing digital....what you answered with is a noble concept of live performance with hardware but all you need these days is Abelton and the D16 Group plug-ins on a laptop and...sorted!

If you think that 95% of us (who were originally vinyl-only DJs) are now faking the funk, pushing sync, twiddling buttons and not knowing how to mix... you're wrong.

A large majority of people who are using digital DJ systems are making and playing out some of their own tracks. Plus...even though vinyl still lives on and is strong in some parts...you can't beat high quality wav files and a constantly updating list of "Jams" for each genre - each day, each week.

You'd spend 4hours and £100GBPs finding 5 tracks on 10 pieces of new vinyl you'd "gotta have" versus- 1.5 hours and £30GBPs finding 20 great tracks on high quality wav (from all times new and old) you are "waiting to play"

And mentioning two drum machines and a sampler as in hardware versions these days is too funny because most of us either have those vintage 303, 808 and 909 boxes with midi now in them and - control them by software or... use cloned beat box/bass line plug-ins and software samplers with greater sound design options, for a live set - running of a laptop and just controllers. The later option can be accomplished with freeware and even lite versions of Abelton.... I'm not just talking the "City Slicker mumbo jumbo" here - you mentioning that concept these days eludes to the dead hardware model and seems like you don't know what is what these days.....I think you should find out more.

-MoMo

Oh ok good! It seemed like the same one but different colors so i wasnt sure lol

massive

These Luddite arguments about vinyl are a Nathan Barley joke. The whole scene we're into is based on technology and machines, so why do some people think that this evolution should just stop?! House music would never have been invented if we'd offered the same resistance to drum machines and sequencers as these vinyl fetishists do to digital. I love vinyl, still buy it - but I like digital formats too. Clubbers though, don't give a shit.

I wonder what techno would be like if we'd always insisted it was made on guitars ;-)

On the whole vinyl/mp3 thing: I believe anything goes, you can use whatever you preffer, the way you think it's more fun to you. Crappy music will be crappy music in any medium, no you can Auto-Sync all you want, technique will only get you to a certain point...
Now I play mostly vinyl, with a couple of my own tracks on CD, but my DJ partner who I play usually back-to-back with, uses Traktor. Traktor itself is very cool, does tons of stuff, and has a powerful sound, but I never considered changing to it. It annoys me deeply to have to look at a computer screen. I don't like it on a stand over the decks, projectong all that light on my face, and I don't like on the side where I'm not looking into the crowd. And as I'm a bit shortsighted it' gets even worst!
And then there's the music buying issue... The thing about vinyl for me is that I'll buy an EP for 1 track, but it happens to me frequently that later on I get more and more interested with the other track(s) on the record, tracks that I wouldn't have really looked at on first glance. And that kind of second look is less probable on mp3 buying (yes yes, even if you buy the whole release and so on...).

So traktor releasing a new version? Fantastic! All up for any technologic development!

great

glad to see they've added frequency content colored waveforms (one of the reasons i prefer serato)

MORE FLIPPIN' FUN TO COME!!!

I don't think I need any or all of these new additions, but then again, I really use traktor just as a record bag and hardly use any effects and / or looping. I stopped all that because I think my sets just sound better without.

@ people who are still defending vinyl: would you still use your bike with just one wheel to get to work? Or a 1 geared car? No - you're probably using a 21 speed mountain bike. Well, I think that's not real biking!

@ Burgers66 -
I have used many arguments in my time, but this one is new to me (but still so obvious!) and I think you're spot on.

Let's focus on how the set sounds when it comes out of the master, I don't give a flying f$ck about the gear that people use.

Same here. I buy more vinyl than ever, but only for home-listening pleasure. I use TS with vinyl recordings when I play elsewhere, since it's lighter to carry and I don't risk ruining my precious vinyl.

The Traktor loop sampler functionality is nice, but I find it easier to use my hardware Soundbite XL.

I've gotta say I'm curious what TS2 could do for me. My only present issue is that I just can't get my beatgrids right, which is annoying when I try to do full digital mixes using my X1. If the beatgrid engine's been updated to automatically adapt to shifting beats within a track, then I might consider buying it.

agree

I would be interested in somebody who purchases this new version, and types an honest review.

I am nearly a vinyl purist, but I do use serato too, but mix manually with timecode vinyls. Serato software is free, so I am interested to know what makes traktor worth paying money for ?

saying digital dj'ing is for lazy people or for those who expect to dj without knowing anything is not true, some people this does apply to but for myself I still need to beatmatch when using sync, prepare tracks before I mix and have knowledge of music and how things progress in order to create a mix. I think if you're into vinyl that that's really great, you choose how you play and the output is what should be judged. every time I buy music I immediately beatgrid it, put in markers and save the file so that it's ready to mix when I feel it will come into play. things change, music is still music.

What does that actually mean? What do you do with your time? This isn't a facetious question, I'm genuinely interested.

I don't have traktor, I like to use cdj's, but I see absolutely nothing wrong with using traktor, and absolutely nothing wrong with hitting the sync button. All you people who think beatmatching is some sort of achievement or some sort of musical talent really need to get out more. Most people I know could beatmatch before they were old enough to go inside a fucking nightclub, and you people go on about keeping two turntables spinning at the same time as if you are playing grand piano in the royal orchestra! Who do you think you are? If someone wants to use a fucking laptop to dj then let them do it, and if it sounds good then fair enough! Fuck off with your stupid idle brained rhetoric you read in a fucking Ricardo Villalobos interview and get a fucking brain!

stfu, and dont dj with laptop, or dont call ur self a dj , call yourself a laptopjay

@keonplus

=D

God damned — is almoust the same with some color LEDs and waves. Additional channels = buy more X1s. LOL =)

YAWN

Copyright fail with Dj Rafik..check deck B at 2:08...haha. We know where he gets his tracks from

Why do people say that DJing with Traktor is easier or that it "does all the work for you"? Is there some kind of auto-beatmatch feature that I'm unaware of? To be fair, I only use Traktor as a conduit for playing the music, still use vinyl control + heaps of vinyl at my gigs. I hardly even use the on-board effects because I don't have an external controller.

That said, would this upgrade be worth it for someone that doesn't use Traktor to its full potential?

nice!!