Make the track start at first beat (traktor pro)
Make the track start at first beat (traktor pro) Posted on: 04.11.2008 by Miguel Serrano Hey guys... Just purchased Traktor Pro and my new nice controller (1d). When I load a track, it doesnt load at the first beat.If I move the load-marker in the track i CAN get it to load there, but when I cue/play (cup) it goes back to the very first marker which I guess is a mark of where the track starts... Any help please? | |
| Temple Cervelli 24.03.2013 |
Originally Posted by Sambo
Okay done that, i set the load cue marker first, then go into grid and it drops a grid marker right on top in line with my load marker, cool. Is it okay to set my load markers before gridding though? |
| Jetta Drenzek 23.03.2013 |
Originally Posted by Superfreak
EDIT: Man this thread has been brought back to life more times than Snoop Dogg's career. If anyone is still interested in doing this there is a much less tedious way (in Traktor 2.6). Go to preferences and make sure you have "Save beatmarker has hot cue" turned OFF. Go to your track, turn on snap, cue to the load point, delete your grid marker unless you're already on it, go to the cue bar underneath the deck, click the middle bit (says --, or something) and click beat marker. Then in the box to the right that says grid, change that to load. Then just go to the grid bar, plonk another grid marker down, and voila. |
| Temple Cervelli 23.03.2013 |
Originally Posted by Karlos Santos
I should only click the 'lock' button to store grids, right? Thanks |
| Scarlett Saupp 07.05.2010 |
Originally Posted by Karlos Santos
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| Leeanna Ayla 06.05.2010 |
Originally Posted by Karlos Santos
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| Scarlett Saupp 06.05.2010 |
Originally Posted by Karlos Santos
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| Temple Cervelli 24.03.2013 |
Originally Posted by Sambo
Okay done that, i set the load cue marker first, then go into grid and it drops a grid marker right on top in line with my load marker, cool. Is it okay to set my load markers before gridding though? |
| Temple Cervelli 23.03.2013 | Okay well store is not a problem Ill just not click it thats cool! Right how do i do this? I just basically want to set a 4 bar loop (i can adjust it to 8/16 so on if needed) to the track that i press SHIFT + CUP/ABS on.. im not great with all this mapping stuff lol |
| Jetta Drenzek 23.03.2013 | I don't click store and it works fine for me. I'm lost on the loop thing though, that's to do with the mapping of your X1. To be honest, I'd just find the mapping of the CUP/ABS button and add a modifier that makes a new loop start at the load marker. |
| Temple Cervelli 23.03.2013 | LOL! Yeah I'm a bit late to this thread,but, I've always used timecode CDs with Traktor, so i always just used my CDJ jogwheel to quickly scroll to my starting point, but now ive sold them and just use the internal decks and sync. I've realised that I really need to go through my tracks and set load/cue markers for the 1st beat in all the tracks that start without any sounds/beat. I've got the hang of it, i just dont like that when i hold shift and press CUP/ABS (which i always used to hold shift and press CUE/REL previously)to go back to the beginning of the track where i set my load marker, it UN-loops EDIT: should i not click 'store' tho? |
| Jetta Drenzek 23.03.2013 |
Originally Posted by Superfreak
EDIT: Man this thread has been brought back to life more times than Snoop Dogg's career. If anyone is still interested in doing this there is a much less tedious way (in Traktor 2.6). Go to preferences and make sure you have "Save beatmarker has hot cue" turned OFF. Go to your track, turn on snap, cue to the load point, delete your grid marker unless you're already on it, go to the cue bar underneath the deck, click the middle bit (says --, or something) and click beat marker. Then in the box to the right that says grid, change that to load. Then just go to the grid bar, plonk another grid marker down, and voila. |
| Temple Cervelli 23.03.2013 | I have followed Endo's steps to get this done, here: http://blog.dubspot.com/traktor-pro-...le-by-dj-endo/ But the problem I'm having now, is that every time I hold 'SHIFT' & press CUE/REL which is what i normally press to go back to the beginning of my tracks, it doesn't go to the new load/cue marker i set, but if i hold shift and press the CUP/ABS button, THAT takes my track back to my load marker. but if i have my tracks on a loop, and press CUP/ABS, it takes it back to the set load marke of my track, but takes my loop OFF!? If i use CUE/REL it doesn't take me to my load marker point, but it DOES keep the loop on..... uff |
| Temple Cervelli 23.03.2013 |
Originally Posted by Karlos Santos
I should only click the 'lock' button to store grids, right? Thanks |
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| Scarlett Saupp 07.05.2010 |
Originally Posted by Karlos Santos
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| Leeanna Ayla 06.05.2010 |
Originally Posted by Karlos Santos
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| Scarlett Saupp 06.05.2010 |
Originally Posted by Karlos Santos
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| nayit ruiz jaramillo 06.05.2010 | Im just sat with the laptop in my lap watching the terrible British election results coming in. VCI is in the other room. |
| Scarlett Saupp 06.05.2010 | Ahh yeah, I always use my vci for storing hotcues, so it wouldn't be using the store function. Nice one! |
| Scarlett Saupp 06.05.2010 | Probably a bad example on my behalf - was rushed for time. I've used all 8 cue points before with the same result. I am definitely putting the hotcues in after the unnumbered cues, so it should be renumbering as you described... Curious. |
| nayit ruiz jaramillo 06.05.2010 | Good god. If you dont use the STORE button and just use the Hot Cue Number button it works. Now bare in mind i am totally stuffed up with a cold and could be doing something stupidly wrong its seems to work mate. 8 Hot Cues plus a Load Marker = 9 |
| nayit ruiz jaramillo 06.05.2010 | I wonder if it matters that you didnt use 3 or 4 ? Ill give it a try. |
| Scarlett Saupp 06.05.2010 | Thats's really strange.. I can't seem to replicate this |
| Jayne Yellowhair 06.05.2010 | It sounded so nice.. |
| nayit ruiz jaramillo 06.05.2010 | Yeah man your right in what you say . You can make the first cue point lose its number with the method you describe. But when i try to add another cue point it numbers all of them including the first one. First screenshot if after you press Map and the number disappears from the Load Marker. Second screen shot shows that if you add another Hot cue (3) Traktor numbers the previous Load Marker. |
| Scarlett Saupp 06.05.2010 |
Originally Posted by Karlos Santos
Numerically, under "Cue" in the advanced panel it lists them as being the first and second cue points (from what I understand it numbers them according to where they appear in the track, so hotcue 8 could be counted as cue point one if it is the first cue you've dropped in the track), but it never assigns them as hotcues after I drop more cue points? I just tried this, but maybe I'm missing what you are saying? |
| nayit ruiz jaramillo 06.05.2010 |
Originally Posted by dafe
Close but no cigar im afraid. |
| Leeanna Ayla 06.05.2010 | Hmmm, now that's interesting. I'm gonna try that when I get home. |
| Scarlett Saupp 06.05.2010 | this is a bit tedious, but if you don't want to use up one of your 8 hot cue points, what you can do is actually move somewhere else in the track (say the beat after where you want your load point), set your first 8 cue points - this will use up your hot cues. now, go back to your load point and drop another cue point (you will have to use the advanced controls panel here, hit the "store" button under "cues") this will drop another cue - it just won't be numbered on the waveform. my suggestion is to actually drop two if this is the first beat of the track. set one as the grid marker, and set the other as the load point. Now go back and delete the first 8 cue points you made and voila, you now have a load marker, and a grid marker but you haven't used up any of your hot cues. This is also a good way of visually marking out your tracks for a host of other reasons without using up your hot cues I discovered this last evening , as I like to visually map out where the main "feel" of a track, or a part of a track starts, and where it ends, to give me a good idea when I need to be in or out of a mix, without wanting to use up any of my hotcues (as they are way too precious), but I still want to be able to activate cue loops if I want once I've reached that part of the track. Makes layering tracks a bit easier as you have quick visual access to which part of the track will work, and doesn't have strong parts that might clash. It would be super handy if Traktor gave you direct access to choose which of its 32 cue points you want to drop, but I don't believe this is possible? If anyone has a quicker easier way of achieving what I've said, let me know |
| Jayne Yellowhair 06.05.2010 | Sorry I did in fact misunderstand, my bad. Also: what Karlos said.. |
| Cathie Sochacki 06.05.2010 | When I used Virtual DJ many years ago, it would remember if you set a cue point at the start of the track and always load it there whenever you loaded the track onto the deck. Well hands, Traktor should definitely have this... |
| nayit ruiz jaramillo 06.05.2010 | A Load Marker and a Grid Marker are types of Hot Cues. They take up 1 or 2 of the 8 that are available. You have to set your own Load Marker. If you use the Auto Grid feature that will save a Hot Cue but your cue points will not be numerically arranged . If you set your Load Marker as the first Cue Point you can always use your Hot CUe Buttons to seek position like the Cue button. Yes, Traktor can set grid points but that is not the same as setting a Load Marker because many mp3s have no sound at the start or a very low volume intro. Traktor would not set the load marker succesfully on most tracks. As for "not going through 10000s of mp3s" ...... er welcome to using dj software. You gotta put the time in. |
| Aleta Broten 06.05.2010 | Thanks for the quick reply but i must not have explained very well or you misunderstood. Im trying to change where the track loads, without using one of the 8 hot cues. I want to keep all 8 hot cues for actual hotcues, not waste them with load points or grid points. Essentially i want traktor to autocue to the 1st beat and still have 8 hot cue slots free to use. From reading lots of community s it seems this is a feature NI dont for some reason incluse which is really odd. hopefully they do soon because im not going through 1000's of mps and manually setting load points lol, especially when this wates an available hot cue slot for every track. The functionality is there already, i mena traktor already works out where the beats are, dont know why they are unable to autocue to the first one. weird. thanks |
| Jayne Yellowhair 06.05.2010 | Yeah you can delete the first cue point by clicking on it the number '1' and then clicking the bin-icon. You can then set a new hot cue by navigating to the correct beat marker (if necessary check 'snap', top of screen) and drop a cue point and click STORE Hope this helps, maybe a little confusing explaination but I believe you'll understand if you see the Traktor interface.. Oh and yeah, thanks for resurrecting this thread in stead of starting a new one, if only all new (and old!) members did this.. |
| Aleta Broten 06.05.2010 | Sorry to resurrect an old thread but this is driving me nuts... I know you can set a load cue point, or a grid cue point, and have the track load to that point, but this uses up one of the 8 available hot cue slots.... At the moment when a track loads, it loads up to a white triangle marker (cue marker?) at teh bottomm of the waveform. Can i move this and save the new position so that traktor loads up to the new position of this white triangle at the bottom? seems really odd that traktor can work out where all the beats are etc, but it is unable to put the default cue at the 1st beat, and instead loads up a cue point way before the 1st beat meaning i have to move it every time, or lose one of the hotcue slots!!? thanks |
| samir abu-sharar 05.11.2008 | B33son: Thank you very much for the update... I completely forgot about this setting! Haha - Usually I automatically set this in everytime I install/configure Traktor. |
| Hannes Deburchgraeve 05.11.2008 |
Originally Posted by Julio
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