Reply to Traktor Scratch Pro Question(s)

I don't know if this is the correct place for this, but I'll give it a shot anyway. My setup is quite simple - 2 TT's with a Korg Zero 4 mixer, TSP and a macbook pro. I will incorporate vinyl also at times, but that's not really at issue. So my question boils down to essentially, Decks A/B are the turntables routed to 1/2 on the mixer for which don't use sync. Where things get a little weird is if I route tracktor C/D to my 3/4 channels on the mixer. I can drop a track, loop, sample - whatever into the C/D sample/remix deck and it will play fine. I have decks C/D set to sync to whatever the master tempo is, which i have set for the track playing the longest (which should be deck A/B). The problem is that if I let the loop or deck c/d play longer than either a/b, then it will take over the tempo of traktor, and then I'm forced to manually keep tempo on the a/b track that is playing with the sample/loop deck continuously until i turn the loop off and let deck a/b take over as master tempo.

I've only really messed around with this one time because as soon as it happened I got peeved and decided I would not worry about 3/4 deck mixing. However, now I'm believeing I might be missing something or there is some workaround that I don't know about, because it seems like this would be a common problem for us TSP people who don't use sync (on the main decks). Is there a way to remedy this? The issue is, I want the remix/sample (decks c/d) to keep sync'd to whatever the tt's are playing, but because they are tt's the tempo is constantly changing. Not only do I move the tempo sliders as I play throughout a set - when I don't touch them they rarely stay constant, typically drifting between .01-.03 for unknown reasons (perhaps they are too old and need servicing, I don't know - or maybe that's normal.)

One more side question that's sort of related now that I am believeing about it - for some reason with traktor scratch, when I slightly adjust the record with a finger on the platter, record or spindle (slower or faster), it will give me the corresponding speed up (or down), but then slow right back down (up) so it nets me zero effective change. Everything stays status quo unless I give it enough pressure to really change the tempo. More clearly, lets say tempo is at 124.25 (+/- .02) bpm. If I gently swipe my finger on the spinning platter to get a subtle phrase shift, the tempo will go down to lets say 124.00 as I am physically touching the platter, but then will pop back up to 124.75 before then recalibrating back down to the original 124.25. Effectively this means that very subtle phrase shifts are next to impossible because even when I try to temporarily slow it down, it speeds back up when I let go (or vice versa) and I'm stuck back where I started - unless I pitch bend - which trust me, I am now mastering out of necessity to keep my sanity (so that's a plus!).

I swear, I am going to have to make a video and put it on youtube to explain this, but it seems like its a traktor issue, and not the tables. When I make small adjustments to the platter when playing on actual vinyl I don't have any issues and it's very responsive and consistent. Any thoughts??

Sorry for the ridiculously long post.