cracking sound with audio 2 dj, using abletonLive through traktor

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cracking sound with audio 2 dj, using abletonLive through traktor

hello,
for the last 3 days i was trying to setup my laptop to work with ableton and traktor+soundplant.

my setup:

vci100 FW1.4, audio2DJ, Laptop: Acer Aspire 5930G (+Mixer just for external audio routing)
Soundplant, Traktor, AbletonLive8
virtual Audiokabel, Asio4All

routing:
Traktor (virtCable)
------> master : virtCable1 (out)
------> monitor-cue: virtCable2 (out)

soundplant (virtCable)
------> virtCable3 (out)

Ableton (asio4All)
//(in)
<------ audio1 : virtCable1 / traktorMaster (in)
<------ audio2 : virtCable2 / traktotCue (in)
<------ audio3 : virtCable3 / soundplant (in)

//(out)
-------> audio1+audio2 : Audio2Dj Ch A
-------> audio3 : Audio2Dj Ch B

theoretical everything should work, imo.
but it does not.
i tried a lot of buffer-variation through asio4all, audio2 driver, or virtcable. even buffer of 2048 does NO change at all. it still cracks

some things i noticed.
when i only use the master channel (audio2DJ ChA) everything works fine. if i active ChannelB the cracking starts on both. so, if i turn off ChB in asio4All it works fine.

if I move the cable from the audio2 too much is easily looses connection to my laptop, even the cable doesnt leave the socket.

and i think it said, that it should work better on usb2.0, when i installed the driver. i looked after it, and my laptop only has 2.0 ports, so why did it come up?

i appreciate any help, suggestions, or info on how you may connected your software sound-outs, with virtual audio cable, or other software.

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are u usually a Traktor or Ableton guy? If you are new to Ableton it could be how you are warping stuff, every time i hear “crackling” and “ableton” i think of people warping songs on Beats as opposed to re-pitch.

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ya, i’m new too ableton, but for my live-setup i only try to route my traktor and soundplant outs into ableton, master them and out all combined into my audio2dj. basically i try to achieve a “virtual mixer+master(+some delay)” before it goes out my soundinterface. i dont need midi-sync right now.

warping is like beatgridding in traktor, right? so ableton does not warp live streaming input!?

i addition i think it even cracks without ableton as output (have to test that again)

i also want to use the internal mixer of traktor.All other threads i found say, that they use “external output” for their virtcables. could this be a problem? catching the “internals” via audio4all (in ableton) should do the same imo.

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Hi FLoer, I´m having the exact same problem and have tried every thing i could think of without any luck. I tried using internal and external mixer on traktor, all kinds of sample rates and buffer sizes on ableton, traktor and soundflower and it always crackles.

I´m getting really frustrated as i really want to use some vst fx´s like turnado and izotope stutter.

I have the same setup as you except i have a 2011 macbook pro and use soundflower instead of soundplant which i think is same thing.

If you find a solution please post it here and good luck.

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You’re unlikely to get anything useable with a 2 channel soundcard, and an ASIO wrapper that contains this + virtual audio cable

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Not quite sure of what you mean by ASIO wrapper but when i use my internal MacBook Pro soundcard i don´t have any problem other than not having a Cue channel. I get sound routed from Traktor in both ways (internal/external mixer) and i use vst´s over the channels without any crackling or popping.

It´s defo either a Audio 2 driver problem with Lion or a USB port problem. I´m thinking of buying a powered USB hub to see if it solves the problem as the sockets on the macbook are the most stable but if the problem is the driver i think this won´t do the trick either and i´ll only be spending more money.

Not sure what to do about it. The Audio 2 drivers are the only ones out for Lion OSX so i can´t go back to older ones, and my OSX is all updated so i don´t think there are any new USB drivers for it.

I´ve seen many videos on youtube and even threads here on DJ Tech Tools saying it is doable and the problem shouldn´t be a 2 output soundcard.

Really hope someone figures out what the problem is cause it´s driving me mad.

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I Have a question to Floer. I’m using windows 7 on a SONY VAIO 64 Bit

is mandatory to use external audio routing in traktor to ableton, or i can use internal mixing with my midi controller.