The step sequencer can be used to program your own drum patterns
on the fly.
Now, before if you wanted to add live drums over Traktor,
you'd have to sync it to like a machine or Ableton,
and you'd have to play the drums in Ableton or a machine.
But now you can do it natively inside of Traktor's remix decks.
So there's a few things you got to do to set it up so it's working correctly.
To set it up, you're going to go to Preferences, Controller Manager.
And then I'm going to click Add, Import TSI, Native Instruments.
And then I'm going to choose one of these four steps sequencer mappings.
I'm going to choose the mapping for deck B.
And now I'm going to have to set the import.
I'm going to set it to Control F1.
And then the next thing I need to do is I
need to go to Preferences, Traktor Control F1.
And I'm going to change the MIDI mode type to usermap.
OK, so now that we've done that, I'm going
to load a remix deck into the decks.
OK, so we have our remix deck loaded.
All right, so let's start programming some drums.
So I'm going to hit Shift and Browse on my F1 controller,
and now we are in step sequencer mode.
So what we have here is a grid of 16 pads.
And we have this yellow pad that's going to scroll through our rows.
We can change the number of steps by turning the browsing coder here.
So I'm going to make it 16 steps.
What that means is there is 16 steps per beat.
So these are sixteenth notes.
So I'm going to select the column that I want
to start programming by pushing the mute stop button,
so I'm going to select column one.
And I'm going to start pushing some pads, and let's see what happens
[DRUMS PLAYING]
OK, so we hear a kick drum happening.
So how it works with the step sequencer if you have 16 beats loaded,
is the first column is the down beat.
So if I just push a pad and each row of the first column,
now I have a 4/4 kick drum.
I'm going to switch to column two, which is my snare.
And I'm just going to click on--
I'm going to set that to 16 beats as well.
And I'm going to click on beat two and beat four.
[DRUMS PLAYING]
Now, I don't really like that snare drum.
So what I can do to change the sample is I can hold Shift and turn the browsing
coder, and it will change what sample is playing in that column.
[DRUMS PLAYING]
And then I have a volume for each row right here and a filter for each row
as well.
[DRUMS PLAYING]
So you can see, it's a lot of fun.
You can just start going crazy, programming your own drum patterns.
And if you ever want to assign the effects as well,
you can just hold Shift and push any of the columns at the bottom,
and it will turn on or off the effects for that row.
[DRUMS PLAYING]
So a lot of fun with the step sequencer.
So with the step sequencer, you can start
adding your own drum patterns over your tracks
and just add a whole new dimension to your DJ sets.
[MUSIC PLAYING]