The Deck - Native Instruments traktor kontrol s5 Manual

4.2

The Deck

This chapter provides a detailed description of how the knobs and buttons on S5's Decks relate
to the TRAKTOR workflow.
S5 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 software. Active
TRAKTOR Decks always work in one of the Deck modes, as Track Deck, Stem Deck or Remix
Deck.
Since the left and right Decks work identically, we'll just talk about the left one. Implicitly,
though, the descriptions also apply to the right Deck.
The left-hand 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 S5 are consistent with
the Deck layout in TRAKTOR:
▪ The left-hand Deck controls TRAKTOR Decks
▪ The right-hand Deck controls TRAKTOR Decks
The following image and table give a detailed overview of the Deck's elements and provide
links referring to sections with further information.
A (on top) and C (below).
B (on top) and D (below).
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Hardware Reference
The Deck