Traktor 3 and Lion

Hi everyone!
Here's my problem.. hope someone will have an answer because I'm stuck..
I've been deejaying with Traktor 3.2 for about 6 years on Mac OS X 10.5 leopard, with no contoller (just a firewire soundcard to seperate the outputs).
My laptop got old and I had to buy another one.. now I have Lion and Traktor 3 crashes all the time, so I had to switch to Traktor Pro 2. I really tried hard to adapt to Traktor Pro, with no success. I still like Traktor 3 a lot more.. I can't get used to the pitch and sync functions in Traktor Pro (Traktor 3 was just doing what I needed), I don't like the way the waveform look, and the looping algorythm seems to be different..
Anyway I really can't get used to Traktor Pro 2 and I would like to know if there's anyway to use Traktor 3 on Lion
Thanks a lot for your answer

 

Very doubtful since Traktor 3 is no longer supported.

 

Traktor 3 is not compatible with OSX above 10.5.
This is a known issue on Apples side. To use the legacy version Traktor 3 you need OSX 10.5. There is no more development on any legacy versions of Traktor.

Karlos

 

Thank you both for your answers!
This is too bad.. traktor 3 is really better for the way I'm deejaying.. I really hope they will fix this issue some day, and that it would be possible to use Traktor 3 again on Lion

 

Unfortunately you are asking a company to support an old release on a new OS. A hard task without a significant user base or income stream, but id love to be proven wrong.

 

I seriously doubt that NI will be updating Traktor 3. They stopped developing it 6 years ago and hardly anyone still uses it.

 

I find it hard to get that you think Traktor 3 is actually better... This is like saying Windows XP is better than Windows 7.. Some people say that, but every sane tech-savy person knows it'S not true

 

As I said in my first post, there will is no work done on legacy products.
This will never be addressed.

Karlos

 

Why not run OSX 10.5 as a virtual machine?

 

I had missed all the new answers.. thanks a lot everyone!

Never heard of that and I'm very curious about it.. is it a complicated process? I have done a little search about it, and I found something like "virtualbox" .. is it what I should use?
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Well the main "issue" for me on Traktor Pro is the sync and the pitch/tempo bend.. In tractor 3, I just had to hit "sync" once to sync the tunes on same velocity, and once again to be able to start the synced tune exactly when I wanted (hitting the space bar for instance), and the bpm didn't change.. In Traktor Pro, when I hit sync again, the tune resets to its original bpm, so I had to assign another key to the "MIDI SYNC" function.. no big deal, but a change in my habits, and one more key to hit.

Another thing I liked about Traktor 3 was the pitch bend function. I had assigned it to the arrows of my mac keyboard. If I had launched a tune a little early, for instance, I could just it the right arrow a little so that the tunes would sync again. And if I had launched it VERY early, I could hit the arrow longer, and it has this way of increasingly pitching the tune I liked a lot.. made it really feel like touching a vinyl..

Now with Traktor Pro I'm lost, and I can't find the same feeling again.. maybe I'm too old, or too lazy to figure out how to get the same feeling with tractor Pro.. If anyone has a link with some useful and simple tips about syncing and pitch bend in the Pro, that would be much appreciated..

Thanks again to everyone of you.

 

Change your Sync button to a Hold-type rather than a toggle if you don't want to press it twice. If you want the BPMs to stay synced, release Sync while the track is playing (i.e. hold Cue).

I don't see why you can't have pitch bend on your arrows anymore? Have you tried mapping them yet?

 

thanks again makar1 for your answer!
Maybe I don't express myself very well. I already mapped the arrows for pitch bending, I just don't get the same progressive pitch bending I was having with Traktor 3 .. I don't manage to be as precise as I was with the T3.
As for the BPM sync, I want to get it released before the track starts, to be able to launch the tune exactly when I want to.. it does the job only with the MIDI sync function.

I may sound stubborn, but about running 10.5 as a virtual machine, would you have any useful tip?

thx again!

 

You can modify how progressive pitch bend is in the Transport settings. And if you want a single press BPM sync, map "Cue" and "Sync On" (hold) to the same button and it will match it in a single button press.

VMWare and Parallels are the most popular virtual machine programs for Mac. Read around using Google or Youtube to find out more.

 

Thanks again makar1 for all the useful answers!