How To Use The Transport Controls On The Traktor Kontrol S8

This is part one of our five-part Get Started With The Traktor Kontrol S8 series. Coming to the Traktor Kontrol S8 from a more conventional DJ controller or CDJs? This series is designed to help! This one covers transport controls. We'll answer the question "How do I cue my music when there are no jogs?"

[PFantProductions]

Thank you so much for first focusing on the two biggest gripes people have with this controller which are the lack of jog wheel track seeking and how to pitch shift the master and cued track separately. It's really not as complicated as people make it to be. I already kinda new how to do so from other tutorials but you made it very simple and easy to understand.

[IamMarkSmith]

Great job Phil. Thank you for putting this together for everyone.

[BazeSelecta]

nice tutorial ! Thx to Digital Dj Tips for this review !

[nathanwthompson]

Man I love the traktor s8 amazing do you think it's for live shows or not and love your videos

[hansh]

Thanks for the video. Very interesting. I think a stay a little bit longer with my s4 mk2. The s8 it's a great step forwards. I like to see the next development on a s10 or s8 mk2 maybe. Remember it's the first one real digital.

[sandymaclarty]

Thanks Phil, where are the following videos in this series?

[KillkapiffTV]

Have you had any crushes with s8 cuz some users reporting some bugs which crush controller and traktor itself
Thx

[leewardlaw]

digital dj tips can u change the type of sample via s8, example one shot, loop without touching the laptop

[patrickbooth]

the S8 is a traktor studio, which is better than a maschine studio imo.

[donpaco]

How is the headphone volume, because all of traktor sound cards have a real low volume on them.

[Galaxyable]

Hi!

Can you please make a tutorial on how to use the serato control CD's. I have Pioneer cdj 2000 and a rane TTM57 MKII mixer. I'm having trouble getting it to work. i am using a macbook pro late 2013 with retina display...

[stee]

"Pressing Shift and Cue jumps you straight back to the beginning..."  .... or you could just hit the button that corresponds with that cue marker.  Why bother with two buttons when you can just hit one?

[snoopyguy]

A couple things here i find wrong. The freeze function has been on tractor for a while. I have a CD of Traktor DJ3 The old software that they made, and it has freeze in it. I use freze all the time. maybe on this new controller you can use it in more places because in the program its available on the delay effect and on reverb. (as far as i know.) Second the seek on the touch works the same way that the seek does on CDJs without invert. naturally we read from the top left to the bottom right. with on a circular object is clockwise. the invert function is just what Apple calls natural scroll or whatever and is the same way you would use it on your smartphone or the newer Apple laptops where its almost like grabbing an actual piece of paper. 

[mazzo]

Anyone got a fix for no sound in the headphones?

[Harliqwin]

why does it load the same playlists into both decks

[electrecuted]

Starting from pitch control... too complicated in my humble opinion... Isn't it supposed for technology to make things easier and more "user friendly"? So this is a transitional "machine". Better wait for the evolution

[peterrivera]

You dont need a laptop has its own built in screen yet hes connected to alaptop.. lol

[DJNEROMUSIC]

you talking too much! Not too much talking🙏

[pixald]

So actual DJ skills like beat matching are now irrelevant with this master sync rubbish???