Traktor help needed...fast!!

Themis · Post by **Themis** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 7:39 pm

dependence on one piece of hardware is bad as a DJ

im sure, if batemans laptop would crash one day befor his gig, he would take some vinyls, burn some cds and rock the party the old way

if you cant do this and a controller can fck you over, you seriously should step up your game.

not saying that this is the case here

Anteuro · Post by **Anteuro** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:19 pm

haha i know what you guys must be thinking..but im no new guy to this..just I had spent quite a while mapping a nice set up on the akai with trigger samples and various creative loop points set up to form a fluent killer set!

but yeah, im going to burn some cd's and do it that way now

patrick bateman · Post by **patrick bateman** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:33 pm

Themis wrote:dependence on one piece of hardware is bad as a DJ

im sure, if batemans laptop would crash one day befor his gig, he would take some vinyls, burn some cds and rock the party the old way

if you cant do this and a controller can fck you over, you seriously should step up your game.

not saying that this is the case here

always has a cd wallet with me as backup.

Shepherd_of_Anu · Post by **Shepherd_of_Anu** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 9:08 pm

I am sure wherever you are going to be playing will have a mixer. Just run multiple outs and mix using a real mixer. Its better than audio controllers anyways. As long as there is sound coming out of the card you are good to go. Hopefully you have multiple outs on your card.

I don't like midi controllers for mixing because there are only 128 discrete values. IMO the jump between 0 and 1 is too much. I wish someone would invent something better.

BTW, you can get usb to firewire connectors but you may need to plug in your sound card because the connector changes into 4 pin firewire which does not carry the same power for the unit.

Anteuro · Post by **Anteuro** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 9:41 pm

thanks for the advice guys, i agree that there is nothing like using a real mixer, just been wanting to get my moneys worth out of the akai to be honest haha, as i have hardly been using it!

LouisVee · Post by **LouisVee** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 10:40 pm

Hey Reuben!

Hope everything went fine and you rocked that party!

Anteuro · Post by **Anteuro** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 1:31 pm

haha thanks man, after some tech issues with traktor i got rid and just used cdj's...and yeah, it all went down real well