Yes mate - still playing around with it at the moment - 1st thoughts after a couple of days are great controller, works seamlessly with Traktor Pro 2, which is a massive, massive overhaul of Traktor, (and not just aesthetically). You can customise it to suit your needs etc. At the moment I'm using 3 decks as decks and the 4th as 4 sample decks, but am going to play with different configurations tomorrow as well as having a play by putting the Kontrol S4 (although I think it's called the X4 now ) through an external mixer.
At the moment I'm hugely impressed by both Traktor 2 and the Kontrol S4/X4
Being Mr Traktor Pro (well the amount of questions in my inbox i get from all over the bloomin world seems to suggest so!!!) I was worried I wouldn't like the complete overhaul.
Mapping the sample decks to your keyboard should just be like the 'one button hot keys' sample grab on the S4, brilliantly simple to get what you want 'just like that' - and it automatically saves all your samples into a separate crate (Brilliant). Going to mess around with the loop recorder tomorrow as just watched a video on that. Just hooked it up to the DJM800 and 'it's all gone quiet over there' - Mmmmm, think I'll have to mess around with the output routing as well tomorrow.
I didn't think they could take it any further but its nice to see new additions and stuff on there that takes Traktor to another level. Its becoming a production tool now rather than just DJ software.
The loop recorder is real useful for live remixing or for re-introducing snippets of tracks already played in the set plus it automatically saves anything recorded to the track collection as MP3's.
Larry Basham
Can you play something with a beat ?