![]() ![]() In fact, these now extend to controlling Stems, NI’s new four-track file format. Mash it Up Below this is the Performance section, a grid of eight pads per deck, used for various tasks, depending on which mode is active: hotcue, freeze, remix or flux. The Browse and Loop buttons are also touch sensitive, invoking the relevant view with a simple tap. Controls to either side let you choose what you view and edit as well as seeing beat grids, track names and other information. The high-resolution screens are crucial to performing without looking at your computer, and they work brilliantly. These can be touched to reveal settings and modified to select and change effects. As a mixer, it’s easy to understand and colour-coded backlights make things simple to follow.Įach deck has a set of controls, starting at the top with touch-sensitive effects knobs. In the centre, you can control master, cue, booth and cue mix volumes as well as tempo, and there are small master level meters. Each channel then has identical controls comprising cue on/off, switchable filter, three-band EQ, level meter and a gain control. The mixer section has level faders for each of the four decks, as well as a crossfader. In terms of sound, it operates at 24-bit/48kHz and allows for four-channel mixing from the Traktor software. A USB port handles audio and MIDI to and from your computer. As for inputs, there’s a mic input jack and aux left and right inputs for connecting external sources. On the rear, the main outputs can be sent either via dual XLRs or RCA outputs and there are stereo jack outs for a booth feed too. On the front edge is a headphone output with both mini and regular jack options so you won’t have to bother with adaptors. Hook it Up The S5 is designed to act as your audio in and out device as well as a software controller, and has a good selection of ports. Weighing 3.7Kg, it’s surprisingly lightweight but as solid as we’ve come to expect from NI. You get two decks, each with a deck select control allowing access to up to four as in the software, and a mixer section in the middle. It comes with Traktor Pro 2, as well as power and USB cables, and appears automatically as a controller device to the software and as an audio I/O device to your Mac or PC. It has many of the tools you’ll find in the S8: some modified or rearranged, but in a smaller package. Listening to customer feedback, NI realised that some users wanted a similar device but without all the bells and whistles, and easier to carry around to gigs. Not that it was huge, but it wasn’t what everyone would call portable. The only thing was that all that capability took up space. ![]()
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