Looping using the performance pads – The performance pads take it a stage further, by letting you do stuff you can’t on the encoder, and by their sheer ease of use.Flux mode – Combined with tightly timed loops, Flux mode opens up a whole realm of possibilities for on-the-fly looping that (at least) always ends well.The loop encoder – It’s devilishly simple to get started with tight, great sounding loops, made even easier by the way Traktor’s looping is implemented on the Kontrol S8.The Traktor Kontrol S8 takes it even further by giving you a pile of performance and customisation options, and of course by showing you on the on-board screens exactly where you’re at so you don’t have to gaze at your laptop. Digital DJing has helped DJs to improve on the “manual” looping idea (setting in and out points with very accurate finger presses on in/out buttons) by linking looping to beats and bars (so the loop is always “tight”) and by the concept of “quantising”, which “snaps” the loop to the nearest beat whether or not you actually touch the button at exactly the right moment.

Looping is simply taking a section of a track and repeating it over and over again, by setting a start and an end point. Below is the background info you need to make the most of this lesson, and the video training itself is at the bottom of the article. In Part 3 we took on beatgridding, and today it’s the turn of looping. In Get Started With The Traktor Kontrol S8, Pt 1, we looked at how the new flagship controller from Native Instruments works with your music files, and in Part 2 we looked at external inputs and wiring everything up. The Traktor Kontrol S8 makes it easy to perform smooth, slick loops on the fly, and has a number of advanced features to help you push your creativity further, all of which we cover in today’s video.

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