![]() Overall the layout does appear more conventional – minus the jogwheels and plus the screens, of course. ![]() The selector buttons for the performance pads have moved into a more usual position above the pads. It’s certainly not quite as scary looking as the S8, dropping the four mini-faders per deck, as well as the second sets of FX / further controls. ![]() It takes a little bit of checking around to realise its ambitions are more aligned with the S2 (ie it’s basically a self-contained software controller, not the potential centre of a DJing “hub”). How does it sit in the new line of controllers from NI?Īctually, on first impression the Kontrol S5 looks a bit like the S4, being the same size, having four sets of channel controls, and pretty much the same form factor. Whilst he has decks A & B set to remix decks, it still shows you what is possible when using two F1’s with the S2.First Impressions / Setting up We take a look at Native Instruments’ latest offering, the Traktor Kontrol S5. Here’s a video on youtube of a guy using an S2 and two F1’s. The remix decks are a lot of fun and I am sure once you have figured out the technical stuff, you will be able to unleash some creativity. Always make sure you’ve saved your current settings so you can return to it should it not work properly. This mapping from DJ Tech Tools says it is for that purpose, but I have not tested it out, so use at your own risk. I would spend some time looking for some S2 mappings that allow you to switch kontrol between decks A & B to decks C & D. You can always switch the F1 between decks C & D at the touch of a button. I would recommend buying only one F1 for the time being and test it out. If you get sound, then I would say that everything will work perfectly. Launch that clip using the mouse and make sure the sound is coming through when you set the remix deck volume knob to the right level. I’d recommend dragging it down into the 2nd or 3rd row, so you can test that the remix deck volume knob doesn’t just apply to the top row of cells. One way you could test this out first is by setting up decks C & D to be remix decks, setting a loop in deck A or B, then drag that loop into one of the remix deck cells. This will however limit your options of capturing tracks and so would maybe be more for a performance set up once you have created a bunch of remix sets. Alternatively, you could set decks A & B as the remix decks and simply mix between those. But for a straight forward set up, and to use solely the F1’s to control Decks C & D, then you shouldn’t need to worry about this. If you wanted to get technical and control the tempo, looping and even scratch the remix decks, then you would certainly need to find a mapping that allows you to switch the S2 from controlling deck A & B, to control decks C & D instead. You can set the F1’s to capture from either deck A or B and simply capture away with no issues. So long as you set your display to 4 deck view and set decks C & D to remix decks, you can see what is loaded into the remix deck cells. ( My new F1 course explains this in detail) You don’t need to turn the monitor on the channel itself, simply on the F1 is fine. The F1 also allows you to monitor each column in the headphones by using the monitor function built into the F1. As the F1 has four volume faders, one for each remix deck column, you can then independently control the volumes of each remix deck column using those faders. You can set up decks C & D to be remix decks and set your F1’s to control each of those decks. Having never used this, I am unsure as to it’s exact functionality, yet I assume that setting this level to on will bring in the sound from the remix decks. There is however a separate volume control knob for the remix decks, so you can use this to bring in the remix deck levels. The S2 only has 2 faders, which obviously limits your ability to use all four channels as you could on the S4. Controlling the Remix Deck Volume on the S2 I understand the confusion here, so let me explain how you can use the F1 with your Kontrol S2. you have a track loaded onto one of the decks and a second track ready on the other, you want to add some loops or samples from the F1 on the next track but you want to check what one of the loops is, how can you do this easily on a S2?” Traktor Tip’s Answer I am told by some I need to be switching to midi mode or buy an S4 and others saying this is not the case, stick with the S2, so at the moment i am totally confused. The problem i am having is finding any information on how to integrate them or use them with my S2. ![]() “Not sure if you can help with this but i am thinking of getting a couple of F1’s to go with my S2. This week Traktor Tip’s reader Mark H asks: ![]()
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