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Originally posted by Cro_Addict When i look in the back of my PC.. i see a green, yellow, black....all of those are outputs..

green is usually the main sound out: L / R channels

not sure about the other two, but i have in my desktop black as center / woofer and orange as rear L / rear R.

try plugging your speakers into each socket and see what happens.

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Originally posted by Cro_Addict Now when I go to my preferences in tractor, I only get options of 1 and 2 to assign...I don't have 3 and 4 as a previous poster suggested.. So is my card not a mulit-output then?

possibly not

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Am i correct in thinking that most pc's and laptops dont come with a multiple output channel soundcard?? Aprt from the mac range..?

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Originally posted by Armada_hk Am i correct in thinking that most pc's and laptops dont come with a multiple output channel soundcard?? Aprt from the mac range..?

laptops, probably no, desktops on the other hand - quite possibly do come with multiple outputs for 5.1 / 7.1 surround sound (especially multimedia centers etc.)

my 3yo machine has an integrated 5.1 sound card.

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Well I called dell...and asked about the connections on my PC.

The guy said that the green is the standard plug (which i knew)....but for surround i need to use the green, black and the yellow one.

So i guess it can support mulitple channels.

Soo, how come then in Tractor i cant assign more than just 1 and 2 which are the left and right for Deck A...

I don't have 3 and 4 which I could use for Deck B.

Traktor supports stereo splitting: deck A playing on L and deck B playing on R. Only one line out is needed with this method. You will then need:



and two of these:



Connect both blacks to channel 1 and both reds to channel 2.

The only thing that you're going to lose this way is a rare swoosh effect (sound moving from one side to another). Most club setups are mono anyway.

You might need to use a soundcard utility program that came with your Dell to set the sound to a mode like quadraphonic or some type of surround sound mode. On my Audigy on a desktop Dell I usually set it to quadraphonic mode so it is outputting to 2 stereo connectors (front, and rear aka surround). Do this when Traktor is not running, then start up Traktor, otherwise it might get confused and not recognize all the soundcard outputs

Takes a bit of diddling with different computers/soundcards before most people figure it out.

I also use a notebook computer with Echo Indigo DJ card and this is a lot easier to set up as the card is designed for DJing and only runs in one mode. However the setup even on this system can get messed up and it takes time to get it working again (Windows XP device drivers + ASIO + WDM + soundcard software + Traktor = too many settings possibilities = total confusion).

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Originally posted by Cro_Addict Well I called dell...and asked about the connections on my PC. The guy said that the green is the standard plug (which i knew)....but for surround i need to use the green, black and the yellow one. So i guess it can support mulitple channels. Soo, how come then in Tractor i cant assign more than just 1 and 2 which are the left and right for Deck A... I don't have 3 and 4 which I could use for Deck B.

Last edited by tvmann on Jun-01-2007 at 21:05

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Originally posted by xtr3m Traktor supports stereo splitting: deck A playing on L and deck B playing on R. Only one line out is needed with this method. You will then need: and two of these: Connect both blacks to channel 1 and both reds to channel 2. The only thing that you're going to lose this way is a rare swoosh effect (sound moving from one side to another). Most club setups are mono anyway.

ah ok...so now what do you set up ur preferences as??


Deck A Left: 1
Deck A Right:

Deck B Left:
Deck B Right:2

like this???

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Originally posted by Cro_Addict ah ok...so now what do you set up ur preferences as?? Deck A Left: 1 Deck A Right: Deck B Left: Deck B Right:2 like this???

probably more like

deck a left (mono) : 1
deck a right :

deck b left (mono) : 2
deck b right :

i don't suggest this though, your tunes will play out in mono and it's VERY obvious. sounds like crap. you're best off buying a cheap external soundcard for your laptop and using two headphone jack-to-RCA adapters to connect front/rear outs. that's how i did it before i bought decks.

i have a soundblaster Audigy external, it has two outputs (front and rear). i have the front output as channel 1, and the rear as channel 2. works great. change traktor's setting to external mix mode and youre good.

I use Ableton, but it needs pretty much the same type of outputs as Traktor

Anyhow, I use an old m-audio quattro which is a USB D->A Audio Box. They are like $250 if you buy them new but you can find them on EB for 1/5th that cause. They aren't made anymore as the recent m-audio boxes are firewire (which uses less CPU cycles, but today's laptops can handle the USB w/o issue and mixer that support laptop connections are using USB because it's a more stable platform overall!)



USB from laptop to the Quattro. Then two stereo 1/4" male (phono) to RCA connectors to go from the box to the mixer.

Dave