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    is this possible?

    toying with getting an apc20 and ableton and was wondering if it's possible to run the ableton audio in traktor?
    i know it can be done traktor into ableton, but i want to go the other way round and use traktor decks/effects for final mix down - thinking as traktor has 'thru' options on the decks it should be workable?

    running windows 7, 2ghz processor, 2gb ram on a dedictaed traktor boot that currently hardly touches any of my system resources

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    Its possible, you basically follow the tutorials that we have availible in reverse, route the audio into a single deck and set the audio of that deck to audio though.

    Personally though i think Traktor -> Ableton is about a 100 times better than Ableton -> Traktor, but your free to setup your system how you wish.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BentoSan View Post
    Its possible, you basically follow the tutorials that we have availible in reverse, route the audio into a single deck and set the audio of that deck to audio though.
    i thought that would be the case, but wanted to check, however does it have to all of abletons audio into one deck?
    as apc20 has the 8 channel faders, i was thinking of pairing up the channels, and have each pair into a deck (4x2 pairs)
    (should've put that in the opening post)

    Quote Originally Posted by BentoSan View Post
    Personally though i think Traktor -> Ableton is about a 100 times better than Ableton -> Traktor, but your free to setup your system how you wish.
    dj first, producer second, figure i'll get on better doing the bulk of the mixing/effects that way, lose patience with DAW programs after a while, lot's of ideas, get annoyed programming them

    even though i could accomplish the same thing with an apc40, but extra cost etc....

    this is a pure production only thing, not planning on bringing ableton into the dj side of things
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    No it doesnt have to be ALL of abletons audio into one deck, i assumed you were going to use this for djing which would be the best approach (for most people anyway).

    If you wanted to have the 8 chans split up between 4 decks you would have to internally mix the 8 tracks down to 4 channel in ableton before sending these 4 channels off to the 4 channels of Traktor.

    To be honest though Traktor doesnt make a very good production environment (but then again i was a producer before also became a dj).

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    Quote Originally Posted by BentoSan View Post
    No it doesnt have to be ALL of abletons audio into one deck, i assumed you were going to use this for djing which would be the best approach (for most people anyway).

    If you wanted to have the 8 chans split up between 4 decks you would have to internally mix the 8 tracks down to 4 channel in ableton before sending these 4 channels off to the 4 channels of Traktor.

    To be honest though Traktor doesnt make a very good production environment (but then again i was a producer before also became a dj).
    i'm trying to find a method that allows me to do things in real time with an interface i'm used to.
    figured i can do some pretty good 4 deck mash ups, so turning ableton into 4 virtual decks should suit me - tried just loading patterns into traktor, but that didn't work, beside obvious 4 channel control issues of vci, but can only hold 4 patterns at a time, with ableton/apc combo i got 8 patterns with 8 faders.

    when i get round to buying the apc i'll let you know how it goes

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    u talking apc20 still?

    looks like they keep pushing back the due date on that...it was 3/16 now its 4/16

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    yeah i know, gives me time to consider other options

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    I been thinking about getting an apc 20 actually

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    i'm not so sure about apc now, spent the last 5 hours doing the LED thing for hot cues with my mate on his APC 40

    But we cracked it!!
    and without additional software

    we've got;
    ins;
    Select/Set+Store Hot Cue
    Send Monitor State - invert on
    outs;
    Hot Cue State [x]
    Controller range @ -1 for min and max
    midi range at 3 (min) and 4(max)
    invert and blend off

    now it flashes red if no hot cue loaded, and solid red if a hot cue loaded, and turns green when you press it

    so maybe will still get the 20, gonna be just ableton anyways

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    Hey brad, can you post how you got the LED's to light up as described? I've been having a hack without much luck and hoping someone would show me the way...

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