Traktor Kontrol S4 from Native Instruments Video 2

0:00 Video number two on the Traktor Kontrol S4 from Native Instruments

Alright guys, video number two on the Traktor Kontrol S4 from Native Instruments. Now there it is and all I've done, not very simple but relatively simple. That is the CD that comes in the box. That's got your program on, the Traktor program. What you need to do is put that into your PC or your laptop, follow a few very simple instructions and then you will have your program on your PC. Also, very important, you need to register your software. You can do that on the sleeve of this particular CD. Take it out on the sleeve, don't chuck it away for crying out quiet. There are a few numbers. What will happen is it will ask you to go online and register your software. I suggest you do that. And you'll have a few numbers on the back of the sleeve. All you need to do is type those numbers into relative boxes. You don't have to click on each box.

Because as soon as you've finished four digits, it'll go to the next one, next one, next box, etc. And then that's registered. Now, this is not rocket science. Pay attention. Top left-hand corner, we have the power in and we have next to that the USB. The USB will go from there into your PC. Simple. Now, that's sort of about it. On the main out, that is going to a powered speaker. Now I could if I wanted to have another one to go to another power speaker so I'd have right and left but just for this demonstration I've got the one. Now um right so there it is nothing's happening what I'm going to do now we're going to make it look like Blackpool Illuminations. If you don't know what Blackpool Illuminations are then around about this time of year sort of September October

2:30 Press play, hardware

There is a city, I believe, on the west coast of England. It's called Blackpool. It's got a rather large tower and there's literally millions of lights that flash on and off. So let's have a look at Blackpool. Here we go. Yeah, that was a clicky speaker thing, so don't worry about it. There you go. Did you see that? I hope you did. Right, so... Ah, yeah. Double-click the icon for the Traktor program. On my PC, I need to double click that and give it a few seconds. Bingo! There it is. And also, we've got a few more Blackpool illuminations down here. What I'm going to do now is I'm going to take the wide-angle lens off the camera like so. It might go blurred a little bit. And let's just go to there. Now what I like about this is there's no setting up. You don't have to start...

Running around all over the place demanding what to do and how to plug it in and which should go where and where should go what, because it's new enough done for you. So if I start moving the hardware channel B up and down, you'll notice the fader up there on the PC. Right and the crossfade, like so. So we'll set the crossfader in the centre. I'm going to put channel A up on the hardware. Now, I don't know if you can see, but the program comes with some very basic loops. We've got house, we've got dubstep as well. So what I'm going to do using the mouse, I'm going to house one bass. I'm just going to click on that and drag it up there. Press play. There you go. Just zoom out. Oh no, that's in. Wrong way. Zoom out. So, if we have a look at the hardware, I'm going to press play.

4:22 With the click of a switch, we've got it

Right, let's pause that. Now again, this is very random. Bear with me. And if we just zoom in there like so, what I'm going to do is, let's have a look, we'll go house one perk, I presume. That's not for tickling it and perking it up. That's short for percussion. What I'm going to do is, I don't know if you can see, up here we've got SYNC, SYNC. If I click on those, theoretically what it should do, it should sync these two particular samples. So with both channels up on the hardware, crossfader in the middle, I'm going to press play on both of them. So with the click of a switch, we've got it synced. Check it out. So what we're dealing with is even if you haven't got any music at all, you can have a bit of fun here. And what we're looking at with these likes of samples...

You're almost delving, let's say from a scale of 1 to 20 or 1 to 100. You're delving into the realms of producing and making your own music because you've got a few samples there. Now what I was doing, I was just editing the sounds. I was just making my own, I don't know, just stuff really. Well, I mean, the beats are there. The bass line is there, but I was bringing the bass line in, bringing the bass line out, putting the beat in, putting the beat out. So I was having a bit of a mash-up by myself. And that is within about 10 minutes, if that, of... When I say opening the box, I did open the box a while ago, but let's say I open the box, I've got everything out, I put the CD in the PC, I plug this in.

I could be doing that within 10 minutes. So video number two, there's more to come. If you have got one of these, then let's see your videos as well. Post them as video responses underneath there. And if you want any more information, I will put a lickable clink in the description that will take you to the Native Instruments website. Enjoy while you practice, because I'm going to.

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