I took the advice from this thread and purchased the Creative Audigy soundcard the other day. I plan to use it with a regular external mixer (Pioneer DJM series) and need some info on how and where everything plugs in and what configurations i need to change in the Traktor programme. If anyone has any photographs of a similar setup that would be much appreciated.

Secondly, when recording a mix on Traktor how do I go about converting the mix into Mp3 format so that i can play it in Itunes etc??

Thanks guys for all the advice in this thread!

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Where you forget what you're doing, when the hairs on your arm stand on end,
just purely lost in the music, for me...that's trance"

I have an Audigy 2 on my Dell desktop PC but have not used it for a long time for Traktor (using Toshiba laptop now for Traktor). My Audigy card is probably very similar to yours but I know they have updated the design (mine is 4 years old). The Creative speaker settings utility does not work for me right now due to some problem.

Anyway, as I recall, what you would do is use the Creative utility (probably accessed from the Creative mixer) to set the card into quadraphonic (4 channel) mode. This gives you two stereo outputs, on two 1/8" jacks on your Audigy. You would feed the "front" (Line Out 1, green) speaker jack to one stereo channel on your mixer, and the "rear" (Line Out 2, black) jack to the other stereo mixer channel.

Set Traktor to use an external mixer. Play around with the audio assignments in Traktor to get the correct audio on the 2 outputs.

Similar setup if you want to use the Traktor internal mixer. In this case Line 1 is for your speakers or amplifier, line 2 is for your headphones, and set Traktor to use the internal mixer (or not to use an external mixer).

To record a mix, in Traktor 2.x hit the "Record" button and then do your mix. Then hit the "save" button and it puts your mix in a .nmx file so you can play it bak later. Then you use the "Write" button to generate a WAV file (or set of WAV files if you want it to crudely cut your mix into tracks). Then you use a program of your choice to make MP3(s) from the WAV mix. It would be similar in Traktor 3.x, however I understand they might have some bugs in 3.x related to recording a mix.

Good luck M8 (and be careful of them Chavs oooh they are spreading all over the world it could be very bad http://chavscum.co.uk )

Last edited by tvmann on Apr-18-2007 at 22:08

just won a Vestax VMC-004 on ebay once i get it i'll hook it up into traktor via my philips aurilium and start rocking it out yay cant wait

keying all my songs now haha

Ive read a lot of info on here on MIDI controllers etc but whats the main difference between using a MIDI controller over a regular club standard dj mixer with a program like Traktor 3? I know that you can get controllers with jog wheels etc and can assign traktor functions to the controller but are those the only real advantages of using them? If im not too bothered about a jog wheel or pitch control because i can do all of that on my laptop with traktor should i just stick to using regular mixers??

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"Trance is not so much a style as it is a state of trance that you're in...
Where you forget what you're doing, when the hairs on your arm stand on end,
just purely lost in the music, for me...that's trance"

well i just started using traktor with my vestax vmc-004 (very easy to set up btw) and im perfectly content with everything the advantage of a good external mixer is you get nice quality faders and knobs that you have the good feel off.. the thing is though, traktor is temporary for me until i can afford CDJs that was the original goal so i didnt really consider MIDI anymore once i realized i wanted CDJs

Here it is, directly from the horses mouth..
http://www.native-instruments.com/i...traktorready_us

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Originally posted by amdmaxx Here it is, directly from the horses mouth.. http://www.native-instruments.com/i...traktorready_us

I'm waiting for Total Control / bcd3000 to come out

So far numark's jog wheels look much more usable than Behringer's and push-to-kill eq knobs are a win (although they may turn out a pain in the ass to use)

On the other hand, bcd3000 has a built in sound card and is $50 less... Numark should make a model with a sound card.

Total Control is promised to come out on 6/11/07, bcd3000, and this is a direct quote from Behringer support, "should be available later this summer"

So I guess if we assume Behringer goes through with their "later this summer" promise, the Total Control will have been out for at least 2 months and the bugs discovered. Most likely though, from what I know, Behringer will delay again until next year (sucks).

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As previously mentioned ive now got the Creative Audigy soundacrd and will be buying the cables necessary to hook up my laptop to an external mixer. For anyone that currently uses this setup could you outline what i plug each end into etc. The soundcard itself has three outputs, one green, one orange and one black. So if im using a two channel setup does it matter which deck (A or B) goes into which coloured output?

Secondly what do i have to set up for the preferences in traktor regarding using an external mixer. Ive managed to hook everything up using the internal mixer and my speakers but have no idea where to start when using an external mixer with a proper club soundsystem.

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"Trance is not so much a style as it is a state of trance that you're in...
Where you forget what you're doing, when the hairs on your arm stand on end,
just purely lost in the music, for me...that's trance"

"FRONT" Goes to Channel1
"REAR" Goes to Channel2

In Traktor:
Preferences -> Mixer Setup -> Change it to External Mixer on top and for channel one you put Creative Audigy 1 (Mono)/Creative Audigy 2

Channel 2 should be Audigy3/4

if not 3/4 then 5/6..

Thanks Stan, Will give it a try!

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"Trance is not so much a style as it is a state of trance that you're in...
Where you forget what you're doing, when the hairs on your arm stand on end,
just purely lost in the music, for me...that's trance"

no problem
I set it up with ableton also in a similar way except my 3/4 became 5/6 under asio4all but itsall good