Traktor Setup Pictures

and you thought you had friends out there

 

Yeah those chumps. Eating my food and drinking my booze and no one sends me a Maschine.

Shame on NI for not sending me a white and gold one! LOL. I just went and bought one last night.

 

how you likin it? i been thinking about picking one up lately. Put a little more stress on my TOSHIBA laptop, i swear i must be the only person out there who doesnt have any problems with Toshiba laptops and NI products.

 

Well, if this doesn't give you problems, go out and start buying lottery tickets. It does put a significant amount of stress on my Macbook - I've been able to run both Traktor (with Zero4/TKX1/3-deck-timecode) and Maschine both off my Zero4. Still working out the kinks with syncing but I think it's a matter of working my master tempo panel properly.

Honestly, like I said to Karlito, this is freaking addictive. I'm hooked like an Lindsay Lohan. My marriage might be in jeopardy.

 

Here's my setup

http://www.djmattyharris.com/hatty_marris.jpg

MacBook Pro 2.53 gHZ 4 gB DDR3
Behringer DDM-400
Technics M5G's
Audio 8 + Traktor Scratch Pro
Odyssey Flight Case

 

Painted with paint

Macbook. 2x Vestax PDX2000. Stanton SK-2F Limited Edition w/ Innofader. 2x Ortofon Elektro OM. Cardboard Akai LPD 8

 

looks kinda cool that way

 

That must be a huge case? Im freaking out over my case, and it fits a 10" mixer only!

 

My Setup

What do you think?

 

That is a great setup. Looks really ergonomic and looks like you have really planned it well.

 

I have spent about two years switching from analog to DVS and working out this setup in my head and in real life and just the other day I youtubing DJ sets for some inspiration and came across DJ Enferno's Live Remix Project. What he has done is exactly what I have been dreaming about for years. I wish I found his setup earlier. It would have saved me a lot of headache. Other than Enferno using the inferior Serato, we almost have come up with the same setup.

 

nice! its funny, i was actually looking at both the axiom and akai today.

 

The Akai is a must have if you are into Ableton. The only down fall I would say is that the pads are not weighted (I assume they will eventually come out with a new APC 40 that has weighted pads). If you are into DJing with ableton and using the APC as your mixer you may want to lean towards a more conventional mixer arraignment and a launchpad or alike. The EQing etc. can be hard on the APC unless you remap midi to your suiting.

I'm really not to advanced as far as keys go, but if you are looking for a versatile compact midi, than the Axiom is a go as well. If you know what you are doing or have the time to learn, I think that the axiom is a great get for the price.

 

got a table that woks finally, and you can see traktor 3 running on the screen in wine on ubuntu studio 9.04.

as you can see i started with an ubuntu machine with a dm2 and herc dj console (mac edition)

it didn't do much but show me i needed more control as a hip-hop DJ, i couldn't just mix, i needed to do turntablest tricks.

i made a plan as you can see in the next image.

then tried to execute it. but i had no table, the image after that. thats actually comic boxes my rig is sitting on.

had to buy a table.

now i need some speakers.


the cool thing is I'm starting to develop a style and i feel comfortable just mixing now. I'm starting to get transitions to work on fly more and more.

my next post will probably be me idoing a ten min set on you tube. till then.

 

beautiful setup, but how do you get those two prog's to work together.

 

I have found that it really is not that complicated. After about a year of trial and error that is.

I have two turntables running into an Audio 4 or 8 DJ (4 at the moment) which is attached to a Dell Studio 1537 via USB. The two outs on the Audio 4 DJ then run into two channels on a Final Scratch 2 Amp (the audio interface from the old Stanton Final Scratch 2 software) which is attached to my Dell via firewire. Then the two outs from the FS2 Amp go to my mixer (Xone 22). Basically I use an Audio 4 DJ interface for Traktor Scratch Pro and a FS2 Amp interface for Ableton all on the same laptop.

I then have TSP as the main midi clock, which sends a midi note to Ableton through a program called midi-yoke. Through some minor timing calibration Ableton receives the midi clock and stays perfectly in sync with TSP. Currently I am using a constant 128 BPM internal clock setting on TSP as apposed to assigning a master deck, although this is totally possible as well if your song tempos need to very from the 128 BPM. This basically allows TSP and Ableton to stay constant at 128 BPM and allows me to shift the timing (via pitch bend) on each track to get 100% perfectly matched to the overall tempo. Basically what I am saying here is that if your beatgrid is slightly off and you set that track as master, then everything else is slightly off as well. I Hope that makes sense.

Two of the major hurdles I had were XP drivers for the Dell Studio 1537, since it is really only setup for Vista and secondly latency spikes, which is not an uncommon thing with computers that are not tip-top of the line. After much research and trial and error, I overcame these issues by using SamsWare.com XP drivers and running a program called Process Explorer at startup which suspends the ACPI.sys+0x110b10 thread (not sure what exactly this is or does, although it works). I may be going too far into this with you, although if you are really interested or have similar issues, feel free to ask and I can explain step by step.

I must say that although I questioned myself may times if I should just go out and buy a $2,000 Macbook Pro that would apparently solve all my issues (according to the Mac gods) or if I could actually get this setup to work on a Dell. Note, I bought by Dell on ebay for $345 used and as you can see it does work and at this point I never have issues with it… It runs flawlessly. I now question the Mac users if they think they could duplicate my setup on a Mac with soundflower or whatever they call it. I have never really gotten a clear response. Anyway, keep rockin and remember the internet and forums are such a beautiful thing when it comes to troubleshooting and asking questions.

 

thats a really cool work around.

i was just curios,

i don't have issues getting audio apps to work together, since I'm producing and djing in Linux. all my midi, audio and time clock (hardware and software) streams are completely rout-able through j.a.c.k. (the jack audio connection kit, a low latency sound server).

thats really cool though.

 

Much more fun than bedroom DJing (and yes, you can't see it but TP is running on my MBP ))

 

Sh*t is that a forest? good lookin out!