Need help setting up my...setup

SO here's the deal: I'm Buying a Vestax VCI-100 Controller very soon and i want to know if i will be able to work out all my connecting issues now.

So. I will be using a built in soundcard (Will upgrade after some time when funds becomes available) and i want my output to be my Computer speakers at this time. BUT! Here's my question: I only have ONE output (Green) 1/8 inch jack on my PC which is designated for my speakers. What do i need to buy to be able to use a set of headphones to cue up and preview my other channel? (Ex. I want my left deck to be playing through my speakers but the right deck in the headphones and vice versa) (I put a picture of a very basic USB soundcard, i think this will do the trick?)

I am using Traktor Pro.


(Will this \/ setup work if i tweak the audio preferences in Traktor?)

Thanks alot, any help is much appreciated

http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w...ront/Setup.jpg

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if you use a program like asio4all you should be able to use both soundcards in the setup you illustrated.

another option if you are using a desktop is a pci soundcard which should be cheaper then the usb one and have mulitple outs.

good luck

so, are you planning to play out with this, or is it just going to be for bedroom use.

Before I got my Mbox 2 working with my laptop (stupid, stupid drivers...), and I was still in the bedroom, I found it was perfectly all right to just set the ouputs to the monitor channel in traktor pro. That way, when you are cuing, it plays both tracks, but if you are recording within the TP, you only get the sound from the main output channel.

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Originally Posted by charo

if you use a program like asio4all you should be able to use both soundcards in the setup you illustrated.

another option if you are using a desktop is a pci soundcard which should be cheaper then the usb one and have mulitple outs.

good luck

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Ok, thanks! I have an asio driver installed already so i hope all will be ok. Worst comes to worst i can buy a Pci soundcard and it should work?

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Originally Posted by sine143

so, are you planning to play out with this, or is it just going to be for bedroom use.

Before I got my Mbox 2 working with my laptop (stupid, stupid drivers...), and I was still in the bedroom, I found it was perfectly all right to just set the ouputs to the monitor channel in traktor pro. That way, when you are cuing, it plays both tracks, but if you are recording within the TP, you only get the sound from the main output channel.

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Right now, bedroom. I'm getting a great deal on a VCI so i figured it would be a good time to finally start to get into it. (vci-100 for $250.00CA :D)

damn man, that is a wonderful deal. Picked mine up for 300 US and counted myself lucky.

I would def pick up at least the audio 2 dj, after playing with the vci for a while. that is, if the vci is the way you want to go.

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Originally Posted by sine143

damn man, that is a wonderful deal. Picked mine up for 300 US and counted myself lucky.

I would def pick up at least the audio 2 dj, after playing with the vci for a while. that is, if the vci is the way you want to go.

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I originally wanted to go vinyl but it is so friggin expensive.. A decent setup is close to $600min - $1000+ PLUS the actual vinyl! And if i did timecode, it would be even more expensive.

SO at this point the VCI will be the way to go until i find out if i will be sticking to DJ'ing and music production. (been producing music for a year or so)

But yea, i was looking at the audio2. Why would i buy that though? What does it allow me to do that a generic sound card wouldn't (Uber noob here, bear with me)

1 stereo out for speakers, 1 stereo out for headphones. soooo, basically what you want to do, without crappy work arounds. Plus, sound quality is suppossedly around the same as the audio 8.

I was running a similar setup where I used just my multi-channel onboard audio with asio4all and it was alright. So if that works for you then go with it.

I suppose what the Audio 2 DJ has over generic cards is portability (which is great since I'm not tied into having to always use my desktop), lower latency, sound quality and higher output levels (I think the more technical people here would be able to clarify). I'm happy with my Audio 2 DJ.

Yes get the audio 2 mate. Small, relatively cheap and awesome sound.

Get an Audio 2 dj soundcard. Cheap as chips and you can use when you want to play out in future.

Then get a stereo 1/4" jack adapter (like you would use on a pair of headphones).

Plug that into the output of Audio 2 and plug the mini jack connection from computer speakers into that.

Nice

My setup goes with an Numark DJIO, I use my cheap 2.1 PC sound speakers pluged into my Numark DJIO with a P2-RCA adapter. And my crappy headset pluged to my DJIO with two P2-P10 adapters to prelisten and record my mic.

The only thing that makes me sad is that my headphone is crap for sound isolating and the audio interface doesn't have a knob to amply the headphone out, so if you stand right in front loud sound speakers, may be hard to pre-listen your mix.

Ahhhhh drivers... buying a Mac was the best career move I ever made :p