intro to digital djing

[ba5booster]

alright so what would be the major differences in the sound quality between the Native Instruments Traktor Audio 10 and Native Instruments Traktor Audio 6??

[SlvrDragon50]

That's not true. You'd need a scratch certified sound card.

You knew what I meant...

There's no difference in sound quality. Just channels.

[arsman]

alright so what would be the major differences in the sound quality between the Native Instruments Traktor Audio 10 and Native Instruments Traktor Audio 6??

If you would use only 3 tables or less TA6 is fine.
if you want to use more then get the TA10

but just in case you don't know if you will add in the future, get the A10, for future expansion's sake

[arsman]

is there any sound quality difference between the audio 10 and the audio 6 from native instruments ??

There's no difference in sound quality. Just channels.

My TA6 sounds fine, although I havent used the TA10 for comparison. but if i would buy again, i'd get the audio 10 for more channels.

[Sambo]

Cheapest good quality entry into the DVS market would probably be a Traktor A6, set you back £240 new, seen them as low as £180 second hand. But if you want to do parties, lugging around those turntables and mixer is going to be a pain, this is why digital DJing was invented! I'd buy a high-end controller like the DDJ-S1 or the Traktor S4 and be done with it. Both under a grand, even cheaper second hand.

[ImNotDedYet]

Cheapest good quality entry into the DVS market would probably be a Traktor A6, set you back £240 new, seen them as low as £180 second hand. But if you want to do parties, lugging around those turntables and mixer is going to be a pain, this is why digital DJing was invented! I'd buy a high-end controller like the DDJ-S1 or the Traktor S4 and be done with it. Both under a grand, even cheaper second hand.

If you get an NI audio card second hand, make sure you get the Traktor Scratch Pro vinyls and license key, otherwise that will run you another $110 or $120? (not sure the conversion to Euros or pounds) That is, if you want to run DVS as opposed to just straight vinyl.

[ba5booster]

if later on i wanted to ditch the turntables for parties and just use traktor and my mixer would that be possible?? (to roue the outgoing sound straight through the audio to my mixer ??)

[ImNotDedYet]

Without an actual controller for your software, you would have to go straight keyboard/mouse to control the software sans tables. Unless your current mixer happens to have a USB interface for the software. A lot of people go NI X1 or similar to control the non-DVS decks in their DVS setups. There are also other options to do this, but I think the X1 is one of the cheaper, least fussy options for Traktor. I don't know what could/would work for Serato in that case.

[arsman]

a mixer and the audio card are possible, but you will need to have some transport controls if you do not want to use your laptop keyboard.

a mixer and audio 2 is enough.
TA-MK2_Setup_mixer.jpg

but if you want scratch functionality, get the a6 or a10.

[ba5booster]

oh im not planning to use serato i like the look, workflow and feel of traktor