Direr need of help recording on Traktor with DJM900 and CDJ2000nexus

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Direr need of help recording on Traktor with DJM900 and CDJ2000nexus

Hey friends.

I have dug through some of these forms and have found some useful information in regards to recording on Traktor with my DJM900 and CDJ2000nexus’.

I have went here: http://www.native-instruments.com/en/support/knowledge-base/show/934/how-to-record-in-traktor-scratch-pro-2-with-pioneer-djm-900/ and have done what is directed.

With this setup my recordings have awful quality. I am connecting my cdjs and mixer through a hub and that hub is connected to my computer. I am willing to paypal/quickpay cash for the person who can help me get this issue solved.

Thank you in advance.

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Define “awful quality.” My Pioneer settings are the same, but I have 10 db of headroom instead of 5.

Have you tried going instead of through a hub, straight from the mixer USB into the computer’s?

Can you record on Traktor playing internally and it sounds good?

I’ve also found I have to go into my computer’s settings and manually disable my wireless cards otherwise I get interference and mad crackling.

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Check your cables and levels. The routing setup is correct so that is not the problem.

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I only have one usb port on my new macbook so a hub is mandatory. I changed my settings around and now recording doesn’t work internally. I am getting a lot of interference and crackling when I play back my tested recordings. Once I stop the recording I loose all control from CDJs to traktor’s software and have to reboot traktor to get any sound output. Thanks for the quick response.

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Cables and levels are fine, thank you.

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I only have one usb port on my new macbook so a hub is mandatory. I changed my settings around and now recording doesn’t work internally. I am getting a lot of interference and crackling when I play back my tested recordings. Once I stop the recording I loose all control from CDJs to traktor’s software and have to reboot traktor to get any sound output. Thanks for the quick response.

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Can you post an example of the “awful quality,” preferably with a video of all of the level meters (any cel phone will take good enough video for this)?

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Yeah, mad crackling is exactly what is happening. It does record just fine internally on my S4 and without my cdjs hooked up. I can’t go straight into my computer as my new macbook only has 1 port.

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Had a similar problem. External recording requires additional CPU resources for some reason, under Traktor preferences - Audio Setup increase your latency setting (a what setting is it now?).

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Sample rate is 44100. Latency 512 (overall 13.1ms). Should I raise it higher?

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sounds like the pioneer drivers, which are always problems, you may need to roll back or upgrade.

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I doubt it. The same cdjs and mixer work on my boys computer and his recordings are crystal clear.

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you’re using the EXT as the record channel right? not that BS channel C thing.

Also there is all kinds of crazy gain staging going on in traktor… i’m assuming the channel gains are set to a reasonable level since you will be going external. Next you want to make sure the little dropdown in the headroom in traktor settings is set to “No Limiter” or something like that because you will be using the one in the mixer.

Finally check the gain knob on the recorder section, make sure your not coming in too hot.

If it sounds like “digital distortion”, real granulated and choppy, then its your latency.

If it just sounds mega loud and is clipping the shit out of the track, then something somewhere is turned too loud.

Personally I think there is waaay to many gain controls in traktor, and when you start plugging in mixers or controllers, those channel gain knobs in traktor will still work independently of the controller and the master gain will still work independently of the master on the controller…potential for messing something up.

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Raise it then test, simple.