The first part of the process is understanding how the F1 communicates with Traktor. M-Audio Trigger Finger- Sad & gray, but great pads! Besides, the pile of Native Instruments products on my shelf is growing very high (Traktor Kontrol X1, Traktor Kontrol S4, Maschine, Komplete 7, Traktor Scratch Pro 2, etc.) so I thought this might be a good time to get my head back into some hardware hacking and build my own solution and my M-Audio Trigger Finger was looking sad and unused. The F1 is a nifty piece of kit, but in Jamaica we pay very high shipping, custom and tax charges on things like this, so a USD 279 F1 very quickly becomes a USD 500 F1 or more. As of Traktor 2.6.2 the Remix Decks now are mappable. To use them to their full potential, you have to purchase the Traktor Kontrol F1 controller.
You can read all about them here.Īlthough one of Traktor’s strengths is the ability to create complex MIDI mappings for almost any of its controls, the Remix Decks are unfortunately limited to a very basic level of mapping. Basically each of the decks in Traktor can be used as a 4×16 sample player, with a lot of neat features including sync, various stop/start/loop modes, individual filters on each column and so on. Native Instruments introduced a great new concept in Traktor 2.5.0 – the Remix Decks.
