Selecting a blank Hotcue pad drops a numbered marker in the current position on the waveform. These allow for you to quickly jump to different cue points in a song and can be setup in advance or on the fly during playback. By choosing the Jogwheel display you will open up even more performance features, and be able to set Hotcues. You can change the display function at will. Even when using Sync, there are times when one track is slightly ahead or behind the other by a fraction of a second and needs to be nudged forward or pulled back to dial in the mix. The double arrows next to the platter allow you to nudge your music to make subtle adjustments that help lock in your beats. The platter offers performance techniques such as scratching, back spinning, and cueing your start point. TRAKTOR DJ 2 is equipped with an automatic key detection algorithm that uses the Key Lock feature to preserve the original musical key when tempo changes are made to the track. When you change the pitch of a track the original musical key of the song changes as well. The pitch fader can also be used to do this manually by adjusting the BPM. When beat mixing, the Sync function automatically matches the tempo of the next song loaded to the current one being played. While TRAKTOR DJ 2 does a great job of accurately setting this for you, it is sometimes necessary to make adjustments by clicking the BPM in the info section of the deck. TRAKTOR DJ 2 analyzes your music and sets the beatgrid automatically for you. The highlighted white line represents “The 1” in a 4 bar section, which is important to understand as this concept will help your phrase your mixes more effectively. The white lines refer to the beatgrid that coincides with the/tempo of the music. The red line in the middle of the display indicates the track’s current position. At the top of the display, you will see the song’s waveform.
Simply press the + symbol at the top of the deck to open your browser to select a track and start playing some music. When you first open TRAKTOR DJ 2, you will see two decks, with a mixer in the middle. As you browse your music you may find a particular tune that you want to play later, simply add it to your queue list for easy access.īefore starting out, it’s recommended you learn a few fundamentals of DJing. Using the Match function, TRAKTOR DJ 2 makes song recommendations that will mix well with the current song you are playing to help with your selection.