Own the dancefloor with Native Instruments TRAKTOR PRO 3, a flagship DJ software that delivers all the professional features, flexible remixing tools, and effects digital DJs have come to expect. Each of the 4 virtual DJ decks is capable of playing audio files from playlists, iTunes sync, and favorite banks.
Version 3 features several enhancements, including new mixer effects, better compatibility with soundcards, and TRAKTOR PRO PLUS, a subscription service that's designed to keep your creative flow and offers fresh tools to trigger your creativity.
What's New in TRAKTOR PRO 3
TRAKTOR PRO 3 builds upon two decades of peak performance. From superb sound on club systems, to high-impact effects, TRAKTOR PRO 3 is designed for creative, dancefloor-filling mixing. The software is also compatible with many third-party controllers and seamlessly incorporates Beatport and Beatsource Streaming. This now includes integration with the Offline Locker—a feature that gives you the power to pick up to 1000 tracks from the massive Beatport and Beatsource catalog and drop them in a club at the highest audio quality, without an internet connection. Make sure to update to the latest version via Native Access.
Club Layout
NI redesigned TRAKTOR's interface that's more streamlined and easier to see through the club haze. New metering and fader designs let you gain your mix more accurately, and a redesigned master panel gives you instant access to essential controls. New parallel waveform and single-deck views let you choose how to mix and prepare your music. TRAKTOR PRO 3 maintains the workflows of its predecessors, so switching is a breeze.
A New Kind of Sound
From small systems to festival big-rigs, new changes that will help you sound great, wherever you play. Every signal-processing step in TRAKTOR has been refined with high-fidelity sound in mind. Stay confident with heavy tempo shifting that uses new Elastique 3 time-stretching. Run your tracks out through the classic warm and punchy TRAKTOR limiter, or a newly designed, truly transparent master limiter that won't duck your sound, even when layering multiple tracks and samples.
New Mixer FX
Experimentation is easy with a new Mixer FX on each channel to give you one-touch control over huge club-grade effects. These are great tools for fail-safe sonic exploration: drench vocals in reverb for washed-out transitions, make industrial music-mayhem with bitcrushing, or step things up and away with different delays, plus more. Choose from eight new Mixer FX and three filters and assign them to a dedicated slot for quick modulation.
Hop, Skip, and Land On-Beat
It's not just effects that can power up your performance. Hold in the new Reverse button to play a deck backwards, because it works with Flux Mode, letting go will mean you jump to where you would have been had you done nothing at all, in perfect sync with the other decks. Create shifted percussion parts, or hidden-message vocals, and team it up with effects for sounds from another dimension. Flux Mode also works with Hotcues, loops, and scratching, for moments where you need a super-tight beat, but can't help chopping things up.
Harmonic Mixing
For those who mix in key (and for those who don't key), TRAKTOR PRO 3 makes harmonic mixing faster and easier. Pitch up or down by semitones, with the resulting key shown in the deck header, and see tracks with matching keys highlighted in the browser, so you'll always know which track fits. It also means more control over creatively building energy throughout your set through key changes.
Made for DVS
For the DVS enthusiasts out there, TRAKTOR PRO 3 sees TRAKTOR SCRATCH capability included as standard. Use our timecode vinyl with any sound card you like, just hook up turntables or CD players to your sound card and spin away. So, as well as playing your crate-digging finds, you can cut, scratch, and backspin your beats without wrecking your wax.
Features
Crafted to Perform
Almost two decades ago, NI created the first DJ software to truly conquer the club. Since then, it’s filled sound systems and dancefloors across the world as well as house parties, bars, beaches, and everything in between. Now, with TRAKTOR PRO 3, they’ve built on that past to bring you new tools for sonic sculpting, their best sound quality ever, and their clearest interface to date, so you can play whatever you want, however you want, wherever you want.
Sounds Better than Ever
- Elastique 3 time stretching and under-the-hood improvements make TRAKTOR PRO 3 the best-sounding version yet, even on the most uncompromising club systems.
EQs and Filter Modeling
- Choose from EQs and filters modeled after industry-standard mixers. Pick one that fits your style.
40+ Deck FX and new Mixer FX
- Choose from mind-bending effects: dubby delays, big reverbs, phasers, and more as well as a single-knob, post-fader Mixer FX on each channel for quick modulation.
Loops and Beatjumps
- Jump between positions within your tracks and punch in loops with super-tight beat-syncing.
Flux Mode and Reverse
- Explore the sonic possibilities of twisting, scratching, Hotcue juggling, and backspins, then automatically jump back into the groove on-beat.
DVS Flexibility
- Use even more of your own gear. Digital Vinyl System DJs can now use any soundcard they like, with TRAKTOR SCRATCH included in TRAKTOR PRO 3.
Customizable User Interface
- Focus on everything you need to; with a customizable software interface, you can adapt to your setup.
Track Library:
- The key to seamless sets is having your music in the right place. Playlists, iTunes sync, and favorite banks keep your tracks where they need to be.
MIDI and Ableton Link
- Extend your setup with external gear as well as Ableton Live. All synced, all on-beat, and all working together.
Stay in Sync
TRAKTOR is great for honing your beatmatching skills, but you can also blend genres and bridge BPMs by letting TRAKTOR PRO 3 do some of the work. Hitting the Sync button quickly gets your tracks beat-matched, so you have plenty of time to experiment with your mix.
Remix with Loops, Hotcues, and Beatjumps
For those who really want to put their stamp on a set, the industry's most reliable and seamless loop, Hotcue, and beatjump tools let you chop and re-edit tracks however you like. Unless you want to cut things up outside of the beat, TRAKTOR will make sure you never skip out of the groove.
Full FX Suite Included
Modulate your tracks with over 40 intuitive, high-grade effects. TRAKTOR's famous Deck FX can twist and screw your tracks with endless variation, while new Mixer FX introduce easy-to-use effects in a single control on each channel. Turn them up, down, on, and off, for sonic exploration that's out of this world.
Remix on the Fly
STEMS
- The Stems audio format splits tracks into four musical components, such as drums, bass, vocals, and melody, so you can mix them independently. Edit and re-edit in the heat of the moment, blend basslines and vocals from tracks you know to create tracks you didn’t.
REMIX DECKS
- One-shot samples and loops on Remix decks blur the lines between DJ and live performance. Insert samples, atmospheric effects, and more into a Remix deck and trigger them in sync with the rest of your mix. Drag a loop you like from another deck to keep it playing in your remix deck for extended mixes.