linking 2 laptops with live/traktor via midi box?
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    Ok have seen things called midi boxes could these be used to say link 2 laptops together so one is master sending tempo to slave

    laptop1>Abelton>midibox<traktor<laptop2

    i was looking at a soundcard with midi i/o but if this can work will be alot cheaper and go down this route if anyone has done this or has any input please let me know

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    Not sure about the item your talking about. But in this Video Richie Hawtin talks about running 2 laptops. 1 with traktor pro running 4 decks and 1 running effects.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1H9W_iLff0



    So it can be done.
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    i could be wrong but i think the 92 has midi i/o

    what i was thinking was:

    laptop1>usb2midicable>midibox>midi2usbcable>laptop 2

    i dont know the exact name of them but i think its called a "midi though box"

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    Well im going to do some digging myself now on this.
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    I think you're talking about a Midi Thru box, Check out some of the stuff at www.midisolutions.com

    But really if you just want to send something like midi clock data from one computer to another, there are much easier ways to do this.
    The way i would go about it would be to get a program like...
    http://nerds.de/en/ipmidi.html
    or
    http://www.musiclab.com/products/rpl_info.htm

    These programs send midi over LAN.
    Then get a ethernet crossover cable, this allows one computer to connect to another over lan without the use of a HUB/router.
    Then you've got midi communication between 2 computers, without using up precious USB ports.

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    cheers drew gonna look in to that tonight see if i can get it set up

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    ive recently done this with 2 different friends of mine. both of them run ableton.
    if you have a midi interface in your audio interface (i have an audio kontrol 1) you can do if over midi. BUT the traktor rig must be the master. for some reason it doesnt work otherwise. there was a full tutorial on it in future music a few months ago (i think it was FM).

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    can you do this with usb midi interfaces?

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    how do you set traktor as the master? as we seam to be having problems

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    any midi interface should work i guess...
    read the manual on how to set traktor pro as the master. its under clock master - external mode and midi clock send.

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