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The SNAP button and indicator on the Master Display.

With Snap mode on, any point you set in the track will snap to the closest beat, thus ensuring

that you get directly to that beat next time that you jump to that point.

Aligning both tracks is straightforward:
1.

Make sure that Deck B is playing (its 

PLAY

 button must be lit).

2.

When you hear a downbeat in the other track, press the Hotcue button you just used to
store the downbeat position.

→ The playback position on Deck B jumps to the stored Cue Point (as you can see in the

TRAKTOR window), and the playback continues from there. Both tracks now are perfectly

aligned, ready to be mixed.

Again, you don’t have to worry about pressing the lit Hotcue button exactly on the beat: by de-
fault, TRAKTOR will make sure that the beats of both tracks stick together and that the jump
doesn’t ruin the beat matching. This is because the so-called Quantize mode is on, as you can
see by the lit 

QUANT

 indicator on the Master Display (see picture above).

With Quantize mode on, whenever you jump through the track (e.g. by pressing a Hotcue but-
ton), the playback jumps to the nearest position that preserves the beat matching, thus ensur-
ing that the current sync doesn’t get lost when you jump through the track.

4.2.6

Interlude: In Case the Left Track Is Over

 

The track “House 1” on Deck A has been playing since we started with the tutorials, and it
might happen that the playback reaches the end of the track. In this case, just do the follow-
ing:

►

On the left Deck, press 

SHIFT

 + 

CUE

 to skip back to the beginning of the track.

You can then resume from where you left off.

Mixing In a Second Track

 

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