(1) Application menu bar: Provides access to basic functions and information about the software.

(2) Header: Here you can find various status indicators and useful functions and buttons, e.g., the Preferences button.

(3) Global section: The Global section contains the FX Units, the Master Control panel, the AUDIO RECORDER, and the LOOP RECORDER.

(4) Decks: TRAKTOR provides you with the four virtual Decks A, B, ( C, and D ). The Decks are where tracks, STEM files, and Samples are played back.

If you previously selected to use only two Decks A and B from the Setup Wizard, you can enable the lower Decks C and D in the Preferences.

(5) Mixer: The Mixer receives audio signals on its four Mixer channels, coming from the four Decks. The Mixer’s basic purpose is to adjust the relative level of each Mixer channel, to control the channels’ frequency content, possibly routing them into the FX Units, before sending the overall result to the master output.

(6) Browser: Lets you manage all your tracks in the Track Collection. You can group tracks in Playlists, sort them according to various attributes, and search within Playlists as well as in the entire Track Collection.