apc40 + traktor
morning/afternoon/evening folks
i just bought an apc40 and ive downloaded a mapping for it. however im having all kinds of annoyances trying to get traktor to actually recognise the controller. Ive tried the ableton “dumb” mode and stuff but still failing.
any1 hit me up with a surefire way to get it working
thanks in advance 
Are you trying to get it to work with traktor or ableton? your title says traktor and in the message you say ableton. Either way I have the APC40 and am running ableton and b4 the KS4 came out i was using it with traktor as well. So i have used it in both. What software you want to use it with?
thanks for the reply
im trying to get it to work with traktor
did you select it in the controller manager in/outs? or traktor doesn’t see it there?
try different usb ports if you have problems
dumb mode and such doesn’t affect detection but how the controller behaves
I wouldnt use it for traktor, is true that there are lots of good mapings for it, but i would use it with ableton, theres better DJ Templates for it like the DJ Marshall one.
If you bought it only to DJ with traktor, i think there were loads better controllers for that to be honest.
Its only my opinion, i used it for dj with ableton and its great, but for traktor there are better options.
I know it was designed for ableton and I know there are better traktor controllers, such as a VCI100 that I own. Some designed exclusively for traktor… But I’ve seen videos of peeps easily using the akai along with traktor and all I’m asking is for a little bit of advice to get mine working.
I hope someone can help me out
i use the apc for traktor and for ableton without any flaws.
So don’t get me wrong here, i’ll just make a list with the stuff you should do to make it work.
-connect the apc and switch it on.
-start ableton and close it after it is done with initializing, now all the lights on the apc should be off.
(now the apc is in dumb mode)
-then make sure that traktors controller settings are set correctly: device to apc and input as well as the output is set to the apc40.
-have fun controlling traktor with your apc40.
thats what i do and what works for me. hope it helps somewhat.
Right…
I use the APC40 and VCI100 together with Traktor.
Its DEAD EASY!
EASY!
I load the VCI TSI as well…then turn it into 4 deck mode and use it for Deck C and D.
Then the APC is for deck A and B.
Its fucking AWESOME!
i really appreciate the help here guys but none of this seems to work. the akai lights dont go out once ableton has initialised and moving the faders aint making a difference. the laptop and ableton know the apc is there but for sum reason it all aint working for me
fml
Seems like traktor doesnt load well the mapping or something, did you tried another maping? That happened to me before, what i did was deleting every map i had there, close tracktor, download another map, load traktor, load that map, close traktor, open ableton and put akai on dumb mode, then open traktor again.You only need to do this first time, thats how it worked for me. I hope it helps. Be sure u have the map selected in traktor.
the problem is the dumb mode. the unit just wont go into it
after watching the youtube vids etc. i thought this was gonna be a breeze to get going. i may already hate it
im uploading today or tomorrow a mapping that doesn’t require dumb mode
here is a preview (need to explain the shift functions and a couple of other things)
i just got the dumb mode to finally work. i changed a few midi preferences in ableton… now onto the next part of getting traktor to recognise the apc and mapping… it just sits in dumb mode with no lights!!
im getting there slowly but surely (probably a lot slower than i should be)
thanks for everones help so far and i look forward to your mapping padi
Thanks
to all of the above thanku for ur help. finally got traktor and the 40 working together!!!
padi04 ur mapping looks sweet, if u could stick it up at some point im sure there will be peeps like me who would like to use it