On, Dim and Off States
We'll refer to active and inactive states rather than the light state wherever possible. In some
cases, buttons change their color to indicate a certain feature. We'll explicitly mention these.
4.1.5
Identical Decks
S8 features two identically equipped Deck sections at the far left and right sides of the unit.
These give you hardware control over the software Decks in the TRAKTOR PRO software. Active
TRAKTOR Decks always work in one of the Deck modes, as either Track Deck, Remix Deck or
Live Input.
If you connect an external device to S8, you can also bypass the Deck completely by
switching the corresponding Mixer channel from TRAKTOR mode to Thru mode. This will
automatically de-activate the Deck.
For more details about the Deck modes, please refer to the TRAKTOR PRO Manual.
In order to keep this chapter easy to read, we'll refer to only the left-hand Deck in this
chapter. Since the right hand Deck works identically, any information given fully applies to
the right-hand Deck, as well.
The left-hand hardware Deck controls TRAKTOR's Decks A and C. The entire section can be
focused on either the primary (A) or secondary (C) Deck. The positions of Decks on S8 are con-
sistent with the Deck layout in TRAKTOR PRO:
• The left-hand Deck controls TRAKTOR Decks
A
(on top) and
C
(below).
• The right-hand Deck controls TRAKTOR Decks
B
(on top) and
D
(below).
Hardware Reference
Overview of the Controller
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