![]() ![]() The displays aren’t currently customizable – so what you see is what you get. They also provide info about the Stem and Remix Decks when active. The displays can show a few basic bits of information – track name, key, BPM, loop length, and an overview waveform. Native Instruments has added a few new ways to tell what’s going on in Traktor without taking your eyes off of the S4 – small LCD displays for each deck, and additional RGB light rings.įor the deck displays, they’re fairly basic, but provide a bit more info than the traditional Loop Display of earlier generations. This tension felt like it was driven by the same mechanism that powers the Haptic Drive – a pretty creative Deck Displays + LEDs The jogs can also have their tension adjusted to make it more or less resistant to manipulation. “ Interfacing software and hardware within Haptic Drive™ technology means that its functionality can be expanded, and will grow over the course of future updates, giving DJs even more ways to interact with their music.” NI also promises that more innovations related to Haptic Drive are coming: As you spin one of the jogs past a set cue point, you can feel the magnetic pressure of the cue point as you spin past it. The best way to describe the Haptic Drive feedback (when we felt it, it was still a prototype experience) is that it feels a bit like a magnetized point that softly snaps the jogwheel to a particular position. You might have felt it before on newer smartphones, but the Haptic Drive feedback feels a bit different from what you get on a phone. ![]() Haptic feedback (also known as force feedback) is a way to provide vibration-based feedback to a user when touching a flat or static surface. Turntable Mode: This turns the motor on and allows the DJ to nudge, stall, and hold the platters for a vinyl-feel while beatmatching or scratching.Beatgrid Adjust Mode: allows you to use the jog to quickly change the beatgrid – with haptic feedback designed to let you feel the beatgrid in comparison to the actual beats of the playing song.Jog Mode: The traditional jogwheel experience you’d get on a classic Kontrol S4.The motorized jogs have three different modes: This is clearly the big feature on the new Kontrol S4: the updated 5.5″ jogwheels are motorized (but only when you want them to be) and have a unique Haptic Drive™ engine built into them that allows the DJ to “feel” points on a track – including the beatgrid, cue points, loops, and more. The faders themselves (not the caps) have been improved – they’re now a new type of fader, “a rugged industrial design with all-new Carbon Protect faders – inverted carbon strips that better protect against dust and other substances.” Motorized Jogs + Haptic Feedback While these might last against wear a bit longer than the old NI knobs, we’ve decided to include our own Chroma Caps with every preorder made in our store – making using the units a dramatically better feeling experience. One thing worth mentioning: both the new Kontrol S4 and S2 have all plastic knobs and faders. The Kontrol S4 MK2 (left) vs 2018’s new Kontrol S4 (right) For some, this is a welcome change to match an industry standard – for others, this eliminates years of muscle memory developed from using Traktor Kontrol hardware. This new 2018 S4 also ditches the mirrored layout that was a staple of earlier generations of Kontrol units, instead adopting the standardized layout that DJs find on media players and other controllers, meaning that the pitch faders are oriented the same on both decks, down and to the right of the jogwheel. There’s no smooth curves or rounded edges – the new S4 feels like a technical tool at first glance. First, Native Instruments has decided to take a more subtle, almost boxy approach to the design. When first looking at the new Kontrol S4 MK3, there are a few things that stand out. Availability: Now! (Orders yours in the DJTT store and get free Chroma Caps).We’ve got the full rundown of what 2018’s Kontrol S4 brings, as well as our initial impressions about this new generation of Traktor hardware. Motorized jogwheels – so hot right now! Today, NI announced a new version of the Traktor Kontrol S4 MK3 that packs in motorized jogwheels with haptic feedback, display screens for a heads-up view into Traktor’s decks, widely expanded inputs, a high quality soundcard, and more. ![]()
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