Importing Your Traktor Library
Lexicon has direct integration into the Traktor database. Lexicon supports Traktor Pro 3 & 4 but does not support Traktor DJ.
Importing is easy, follow these steps:
- Make sure Traktor is closed
- Open Lexicon
- Click
Importat the bottom of the sidebar, just above theSync to DJ appbutton, or useFile➡Import from…in the top menu bar - Select
Traktor Pro 3 & 4 - Lexicon should auto-detect your NML (database) file. If it does not, you can point Lexicon to it. Otherwise, you can export your Traktor library as NML by right clicking your collection.
- Leave the other settings at their default
- Click
Start importing - Start using Lexicon!
Load, fade and beat markers
Lexicon has no separate Load, Fade In or Fade Out markers, so it imports them as hot cues and gives each kind its own color:
| In Traktor | In Lexicon |
|---|---|
| Cue | Hot cue, blue |
| Load | Hot cue, yellow |
| Fade In, Fade Out | Hot cue, orange |
| Loop | Loop, green |
| Beat marker on a hot cue button | Hot cue, white, plus a beatgrid marker |
| Beat marker without a hot cue button | Beatgrid marker only |
Lexicon remembers what each cue was in Traktor. When you sync back to Traktor, Load, Fade In and Fade Out markers are Load, Fade In and Fade Out markers again, and a beat marker goes back onto its own hot cue button. If you edit the beatgrid in Lexicon, the beat markers are hidden in Traktor and the white cues sync as normal cues.
Other DJ apps have no such markers, so these cues sync to them as normal hot cues. VirtualDJ is the exception: it has one load point per track, so the first Load marker becomes that and any others are normal cues.