I'm looking into buying a Maschine Mk2 and I'm currently checking if it is possible to do this properly on windows. I know it's extremely easy on Mac, but it isn't on Windows. I'm currently using a pirated version of Maschine to check if it is possible, if I buy a Maschine it will be legal (if you're bothered by this, feel free to keep this opinion to yourself). I can't just set the output to the same device in both Maschine and Traktor at the same time. So I have to try something else. My main controller (Pioneer DDJ-SR) is being fixed, so I'm using a Mixtrack Pro II and Asio4all v2. I have no idea wether the DDJ-SR is multi client, but it could work with the Steinberg driver. I will only know in about 3 weeks unfortunately...
So what I've first tried is the Steinberg Multi Client Asio driver (http://www.steinberg.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=48). It didn't work, Traktor either crashed or I could only select my laptop as output. Then I tried Jack (http://jackaudio.org/faq/jack_on_windows.html), which got a connection from Maschine to Traktor (assigned out 3 and 4 to input 1 and 2 via Jack and into deck D in Traktor), but no output from Traktor itself. I also can only use four channels for the whole thing and I have no clue how Jack assigns each one. As standard, outputs 1&2 are the master and 3&4 are the headphone on the mixtrack.
I also tried VB Audio cable (http://vb-audio.pagesperso-orange.fr/Cable/index.htm), but that's just another virtual midi cable that shows up as an asio device.
Does anybody have any experience with this or can provide any input? I really want to know that what I want is either possible or impossible before I spend this kind of money. I don't care about syncing Traktor's midi clock to Maschine, I plan to use the Mk2 as sort of an instrument.
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