I am aware that NI has a couple articles showing how to
1. Slave Maschine to Traktor for tempo purposes
2. Direct Maschine audio into a Traktor deck.
DJTT was kind enough to offer a great tutorial (better than NI's I would say) but it is based on NI's tutorial that does not seem to work for me.
Half the reason I even went Traktor and not Serato was I assumed that Maschine and Traktor would get along (silly me).
The articles do not seem to be updated for the S5. It's too bad they decided to not use MIDI ports on the S5 (but have them on the cheaper S4??) because that would be a super easy solution to syncing it with the Maschine mk2 I have.
My problem is that neither guide, which I followed very closely, resulted in Maschine being synced or audio sent to a Deck. I'm using windows 8 and am fully aware that I need to set up a virtual MIDI line, which I did. Can't recall the program I used but "vMIDI1" appears in the MIDI I/O of both softwares.
As for running audio to Traktor, it seems like a virtual audio line is needed to do it using the S5 as my soundcard, but I don't know what method would work best for that. Bringing in another soundcard totally defeats the purpose of even having one in the controller in the first place so I'd like to avoid resorting to adding my Scarlett to my setup.
If anyone has experience using the S5 and Maschine mk2 together successfully I'd hugely appreciate the help!!
Where I'm at now - Maschine sends audio out of traktor (thru mains, not thru a deck), and is in slave mode but doesn't respond to Traktor's clock.
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