2 Traktor DJ’s always make it on time?
Hello DJTT
My friend and i wanted to do a live set together soon and we were wondering how we can hook up our traktors together?
kind of like Chus & Ceballos or like Speedy J & Chris Liebing
heres an example:
but we want to do it with 2 traktors
maximal minimal
I’d expect this subject would of been well covered some where in the past on the forum. Plus I’m pretty shore there’s a post about syncing to external source’s on the blog too, both worth searching.
But here’s what you need to do.
1: Choose which computer will be the master, this will be the computer sending the midi clock signal
2: Make a connection, you need a 5 pin midi cable to send/receive midi clock and hardware that supports it to plug it in to, like the Audo 8. Plug into the MIDI OUT of the master computer, and then plug in to the MIDI IN to the computer being slaved.
3:On both computer’s open Traktors preference’s, click on ‘control manager’, then ‘add’, and choose ‘GENERIC MIDI’ from the drop down menu. Now simply make sure both IN-PORTS and OUT-PORTS are set to ALL PORTS.
4: Now with JUST the master computer only, open the ‘MIDI Clock’ page inside Traktors preferences and activate the ‘Send Midi Clock’ box. The ‘Midi Clock Sending offset’ has to be fiddled around with a bit, but I find around 35 ish works for my set up.
5: Get a beatgrided tune playing on the master computer, and hit the play/pause butoon in Trakors clock window. (Traktors clock window in standard set up found under Fx units 1 & 3, top left hand side). If your using an Audio 8 with the master computer, the Midi Out light will start flashing. Equally the Midi In light will start flashing on the receiving Audio 8.
6: Now with the computer that is being slaved, go to Traktor’s clock window, find the CLOCK MASTER and set it to ‘EXT’ (external) and then simply hit the ‘Sync’ button with in the Clock window. The Tempo display should be going crazy now, it’ll quickly settle down and match the tempo of the master computer. Now you ready to go!
Above is the most basic way to sync up Traktor. By adding another Midi cable from computer to computer, It’s pos to make both masters or slaves as and when. With that I’d suggest setting up midi controls to swap over who is the master. Plus it’s also a good idea to play around with Internal and External mode for the master computer.
Many issues can pop when mixing in sync with another Traktor, it really isn’t as simple as most may think, a good work flow is needed. There is a number of advantages, mainly fx staying perfect with one another.
It’s rare I practice by my self, I have sooooo much more fun just taking turns with me fellow dj’s. But after a lot time playing around with linking up, I prefer to ditch all the above and do it the old way, set up at your desired tempo’s and stick to that speed, I feel you lose a certain amount of freedom linking up Traktors.
For me linking up Traktor via midi clock really excels when paired with other hardware/software. The best results so far is with my friends NI Maschine, we set that as the master, plug that in to my Korg Zero4, which then carries the clock signal in to Traktor = the sampler and the Fx on the zero4, plus every thing within Traktor stay’s perfectly in time with his Maschine.
Word. This is fun as shit.
look in the faq sticky at top of general discussion forum (link in bottom of my sig)
Anyone know what stands they have their Maschines on.
They arent Crane Stands. Crane Stands have rounded bars.
They arent Magma stands…
???
wobbly ones
I hadn’t seen that before. learned a few things. 
this is one of the few big drawbacks of digital djing.
it was so much easier to just go to a friends house and throw down some vinyl together for an instant party.
we played at the river this weekend, and while i brought all the gear (sig) everyone else brought several usb sticks. seems quite a bit easier than lugging even one case of vinyl around.
edit: love the collab vid, thanks
@mmusic - True slapping on some vinyl couldn’t be easier. But it really doesn’t take that long to set your kit up together, and trust me you simply couldn’t do the things on vinyl my friends and I do. The two pics below are from one of many sessions. When we play together like this it’s all free style, we mainly stick to loops/fx loops. First we work out who take’s care of what, Bass, beats, melodies and scratching. Then we swap around, of course things can get a little out of hand, but mostly it’s a lot of fun, and every now and then we hit those real special moments when we just wish we was recording!
The set up below is a prime example when midi clock linking everything together really helps.
First of all thank you for the tutorial Dubba Dutch i understood it better than the one on F.A.Q and its better explained
btw that looks so sick i wanna jam out with all that gear 
No worries Santos!!!
"btw that looks so sick i wanna jam out with all that gear "
Yeah I’m a complete and utter gear geek, I love me toys! The picture doesn’t show my Boss Rc-50 sample pedal under the desk which is also slaved by the same midi clock as the other set ups. Plus the Akai MPK 49 is running Kore player for me soft synths, which again is midi clock linked virtually to Traktor pro on the same little white mac book, bless it.
yeaa im that way too 
but just dont buy everything i want lol
btw since you know alot about syncing up i tryed to route my traktor in ableton using this video:
but it seems like an older video of traktor and it doesnt have the same preference tab do you have any ideas on routing it how he did 
I remember when NI binned the old Midi options window, confused the shit out of me at first! I’m guessing you want to sync Trakor to other software on the same machine?
As described in section 3: in my tutorial -
3:On both computer’s open Traktors preference’s, click on ‘control manager’, then ‘add’, and choose ‘GENERIC MIDI’ from the drop down menu. Now simply make sure both IN-PORTS and OUT-PORTS are set to ALL PORTS.
This will ensure Traktor is sending a Midi clock signal internally as well as externally.
If you are not syncing to anything external from your computer, you don’t actually need both IN-PORTS and OUT-PORTS set to ALL PORTS. All you need to do is set
IN-PORTS = Traktor Virtual Input and OUT-PORTS = Traktor Virtual Output.
With this method midi clock will signal will be kept internal.
Tho I’m not sure about Ableton, most software I come across has a simple accept virtual/external midi clock option within preferences tab, which will perform as the option suggests. Traktors extensive midi options like to keep you on your toes, the buggers.
Going back to Midi clock syncing to other setups , because Traktor use’s a blank midi mapping page to send the midi clock with both ports set to all ports, any controller midi maps on the external/friends set up with the mapping page set to ‘All Ports’ will receive control messages if your control mapping also has ‘All Ports’ open. Hence always have the controller mapping set to it’s own ports.
