Xone:K2 - Tutorial: Traktor Mapping Switches Please note you need Latching Layers Off. 2x Allen & Heath XONE K2 MIDI and LED mapping for using 4 channels with 4 FX in Traktor 2.5 - Duration. Xone:K2 – Application Example: Single Setup – External Mixer. You can use your K2 to route the output from 2 separate virtual decks, into 2 channels of an external mixer. This means you can use your K2 to control your chosen DJ software and also use the features of an external mixer.

This is a mapping for basic 4-deck control of Traktor with the Allen & Heath Xone:K2. It handles internal mixing (line faders & EQs), FX Unit assign, basic transport, & hotcues (1-4) for each deck. The line faders, EQs, FX unit assign,channel monitor, & Gain work for decks setup as either track or sample decks. Vkladish v otkritku s dnem rozhdeniya.

The transport (layer 2 -Amber) & hotcues (layer 3 - green) are relevant only for track decks Everything is divided along vertical strips.one for each Deck C,A,B,D order. Top encoders are for gain.push for channel monitor. Rotary pots and their buttons for EQs and EQ Kills, Line faders are self explanatory. I have only the bottom set of buttons set to use layers Layer 1: turn on FX units 1-4 for each deck Layer 2: Play, Cue, Sync, load selected track to deck Layer 3: Hotcues 1-4 for each deck bottom encoders: left encoder scrolls through track list, push button loads and plays track in preview player, right encoder seeks through track playing in the preview player Button on bottom right is SHIFT.

Link: – Price: $299/€249/£199 Introduction Ah, timing. I don’t know whether this is something to do with the hive mind that people are talking more and more about since Twitter became a ‘thing’, but the amount of controllers that are pointing towards the exact same workflow, all coming out within a timeframe too condensed to allow us to infer much in the way of copycat tactics, is staggering. Allen & Heath beat pretty much everyone to the punch with their Xone K2 announcement at last year’s, and they’ve had the DJ community on tenterhooks since. In the Box The Xone K2 has an excellent selection of value adders in the box.

For a start, there’s a particularly well padded carry case that doubles up as a stand to raise the K2 to turntable/mixer height. My only real reservation with the case is that when using it as a stand, the sheer amount of padding and protection it’s equipped with adds quite a lot of bulk and means that setting it up completely flush with the rest of your equipment isn’t really possible. I’d have preferred to have seen some sort of riser system built into the case that can be removed and allows a Xone K2 to sit right in the cut between two other pieces of equipment, or even possibly a built in kick stand system, but I’m splitting hairs a little bit here. It’s great that it’s included. As well as the expected USB cable there’s an RJ45 cable (X-Link uses RJ45 pinout, but the connections are customised. You can use an RJ45 cable, but I don’t advise experimenting with plugging the Xone K2 into networks!) for connecting multiple K2s together, or a K2 to enabled A&H mixers, and a software disk.

Digitally speaking A&H have made a real effort to ensure that despite the flexibility that seems central to the K2’s design, users that just want to plug and play are catered for. There are multiple Traktor Pro mappings, for two decks, four decks, a Native Instruments Traktor Kontrol X1 emulator (more on that later), an Ableton Live map, blank overlays ready for printing, and of course drivers for everything. I was a little surprised not to see any Serato love, and I double checked to make sure I hadn’t missed a configuration utility akin to the controller editors frequently seen bundled with other developers’ products, but keeping the MIDI assignments on the unit’s physical controls is probably a good idea to keep the layering the K2 is capable of manageable. How it Feels The buttons on the Xone K2 are immediately gratifying; a reassuring clicky action with very short travel means that you can place a lot of confidence in them mission critical functions like cue juggling and transport. Perhaps it’s just a little squished for really going to town with the 4×4 section as if it were a pad controller, but it’s spaced well enough that you won’t worry about tripping up on nearby buttons. They light up brightly – not retina burningly so, but they give off enough of a glow to allow you to see in daylight as well as behind a dark DJ booth. The knobs are super soft and just feel generally lovely.

They’re marginally lighter than most other developers’ implementations, and for quick adjustments they work really well. The rotary encoders feel very good too, I tend to prefer either a very clicky feel or a completely smooth one for encoders and they sit much more towards the clicky. The push button functionality of the encoders is a bit spongey – I’d have preferred a bit more ‘clunk’ in this area.