Advanced Effects Routing (parallel effects or internal send&return)

Hi Traktor Community,

This feature is inspired by the 'FX frequency select' option on current Pioneer mixers such as the DJM-900nxs2. It allows you to apply effects exclusively to one part of the frequency spectrum. The obvious use case for this is having nice delays on a top loop of a track without having to choose between completely murdering the kick and bassline with delay or having no kick and bassline anymore because you filtered them out. As far as I know this is currently impossible in traktor without having an external effects unit to use with send&return. It is possible to simply add a frequency selector to the effects unit, but i think it would be much better to give users even more freedom in how the effects are routed.

The two options I imagine are 'Parallel' and 'Internal send&return', visualised here along with the current options.



Of the two options I think Parallel would be best, with most controllers already having the option to change effect routing on the fly it is very easy to turn on or off. Internal send&return would be a bit weird since it would have to replace a deck when in use. But it is very powerful nonetheless (imagine having wet signal coming from FX unit 1 into channel 3 and routing channel 3 to FX unit 2!).

I think it would be good to have a look into these things because it really broadens the options without requiring any extra hardware, because everyhing is done internally in Traktor.

 

Agreed
I've sen mappings that acheived this by using unused deck4
Would be great to have this nativelly