Traktor Pro 2 – Officially Announced!

re-blog from DJTechtools 

After a well placed teaser weeks ago, NI finally gave up the goods and announced Traktor Pro 2 today with a release date of April 1st 2011. T Pro 2 is the newest succesor in the Traktor line, taking the S4 features and rolling them into Traktor Pro with a few nice extra touches. They include colored waveforms, multi channel support, and potential for up to 16 concurrent loops! Continue reading for our extensive 10 minute tour of the new software plus a breakdown of every new feature.

ESSENTIAL INFO

• available in April
• $229 for the software
• $79 if you have Traktor Pro
• $129 if you have LE
• $0 if you have an S4

THE NEW FEATURES

Side By Side Install

• T Pro 2 uses same analysis files as Traktor Pro 1,  but does a side by side install so you can revert to T Pro 1 if needed.

New GUI

The new style is similar to the S4, and has a dark rich color palette that may be perceived by some as more professional. It’s actually starting to look more and more like the original Traktor 2 layout which was dominated by black and green tones.

New Deck Sizes

To make your screen less clutter and more feedback, NI offers a few new deck sizes that maximize or minimize space.

• Essential Deck
• Micro Deck

Multi Colored Waveforms

There are now 4 colored waveform options. Sadly, the one option that is not present is the Traktor 1 style waveforms. Instead you can choose from:

• X-ray
• Infrared (Above)
• Ultraviolet
• Spectrum (Above)

Zoomable Waveforms

• The new waveforms also zoom in really tight for the most accurate cue points you can possibly imagine!

Grid-Lines

The style of grid-lines can be customized in the Deck Preferences. There is now:

• light
• strong (above)
• tick
• invisible

New Platter and Scope

• The size of the platter has been increased by reducing the width of the phase meter.

LOOP RECORDER

4 Sample Decks

• S4 supports samples and loop decks on all 4 decks.

4 New Effects

• Tape Delay

• Ramp Delay

• Bouncer

• Auto Bouncer

Additional Features

• Plugging in a NI sound card will automatically change the audio from internal to the NI sound card and route the outputs so you don’t have to worry about changing settings.

• You can send multiple decks out over the same channel – 4 decks over a 2 channel sound card. (Only with the audio 6 or 10.)

• Future S4′s will ship with Traktor Pro 2 CD’s and all S4′s can also run Traktor Pro (no word on a upgrade price yet)

• Multiple decks can now use the same CD or turntable input.

• Dragging a loop from a deck into a sample slot now copies the tracks filter position.

Pricing and availability

In stores: April 2011

Suggested retail pricing:

• TRAKTOR PRO 2 – $229 / 199 €
• TRAKTOR SCRATCH PRO 2 – $669 / 599 €
• TRAKTOR DUO 2 – $119 / 99 €
• TRAKTOR SCRATCH DUO 2 – $399 / 349 €