Vetax VCI 100 Vista and Traktor Problem

Right so, got my Vestax VCI 100 MIDI Controller now, but no sound card yet for a few days. Put the USB into my pc and it got drivers for it it seemed and the lights on the controller began working, but when I try and use it with Traktor or Virtual DJ its not recognised? Any ideas? Im using vista SP 2 btw.

Is there anyway to check that vista is recognising it as a MIDI controller and not something else?
Is there anyway to check if the drivers installed properly or are still there?

Any help welcome thanks.

 

Vista (and XP and Win 7) come with the needed drivers for the VCI-100.
It should be listed in Traktor in the Preferences-dialog under MIDI-Setup.

What can you select for MIDI input devices and MIDI output devices?

Also check the device manager in Windows. If there is a "unknown USB device", the drivers might haven't installed properly.

 

I cant find that preferences dialogue under MIDI-setup, im using Traktor 3 btw.

I cant select anything for MIDI input and output, nothing comes up.

I cant find any unknown USB device messages in device manager anyway.

Any idea?

 

My bad, I didn't ask for the version.

Can you find the Vestax VCI-100 in the device manager?
Can't tell you as what it is listed, because mine is 300 miles away right now.

Did you start Traktor after you turned the VCI-100 on?
Traktor can't detect MIDI-devices connected after its start.

 

I did that and now its connected under the MIDI input and output. But now another problem, the lights and all are on, I can hear the music sound, the drivers are under "sound, video and game controllers", but now the buttons dont seem to be working with traktor 3. I press the play button on the controller for example and the song in the software doesn't play, same for every button. Any idea?
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Maybe I dont have the right button mapping? Do you know where I can download a button mapping layout and how do I load it? Thanks.

 

Yeah, that's an easy one.

Traktor doesn't know what you want to do with the VCI-100.
You need to tell him by either assigning buttons, knobs and sliders to one or more Traktor-functions or load a file where this has been already done.

The Vestax-homepage offers one which you can use to experiment around.
You can find it here: http://ci.vestax.com/en/software/tks/traktor33vestaxvci100.zip
Unzip it. and load the tks-file via "import" in Traktor.
Then you're ready to start.

The layout included in that file is pretty basic (there are better ones out there) but it's enough to start.

 

Cheers thanks for all the help working fine now, but where would you get better lay out files? Any links? Thanks again.
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ONE MORE THING, Now there is no sound coming out of the speakers yet there on and all, is that because I have no soundcard?

 

http://www.djtechtools.com
is a great place for VCI-100 owners.
Especially the mapping they offer here is far better than the original one of Vestax.

I guess you have a soundcard in your PC. That will be OK until yorus arrives.
You need to select it in "audio setup"
If you're unsure which the correct one is, just try all from the list.

 

Yeah I have it selected, but the sound isnt coming from it, yet I can hear sound off youtube videos for example while im using Traktor, the songs are playing away on traktor too... WTF?

 

That means you have selected the wrong entry for audio device in Traktor.
Tell us which entries can you select there?

 

Oh I got it now, I had nothing selected for "Master" in output routing in sound.
This seems to be everything working now, thanks for help again.
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You dont know how to add a button mapping for a bass, treble etc. kill switch? I dont think there is one on this controller, you can onyl cut the bass with the knob, i want to be able to cut it instantly for example.

 

You can assign one yourself.
Go To Midi-Mapping, then click 'Add'.
Go to Mixer->EQ->EQ Kill Low.

You just made your first MIDI assignment. Congratulations.
Experiment with MIDI assignments because they give you a lot of power.

I now need some sleep. So, good night.

 

Well now I cant figure out how to scratch with Traktor Pro. im able to do it fine on Traktor 3 but I cant figure out how to do it properly in Traktor Scratch pro, anything im doing wrong?

 

In Traktor DJ Studio 3.4.1.040 you can use different Internal mixer wich emulate P600,NUO4 or Xone 92.With Ecler NUO4, there is a Bass Killer wich is configurate in the MIDI mapping of the VCI-100 and affected to the last rotary button of the equalizer
I've got one Ecler NUO4 too, and I can tell you that it's really rock on VCI-100

Hope you enjoy it

 

Right so, have a new laptop, and am trying to get this working now, the Vestax VCI 100 with Traktor pro. I plugged in the vestax into the laptop via usb a few days ago and it got the drivers and the lights came on. But about a week later when I tried it again, due to being busy, the vestax wont work. It doesn't seem to have the drivers installed now. The lights wont come on it. Any help?