I need my BPM out of Traktor?!
Hi!
As i’m doing a show with a friend who is doing Visuals and lights i’m looking for other ways to get the BPM out of Traktor than the Clock function.
He uses Martin Lightjockey and there isn’t a “sync to midiclock” function.
Can i (and if so: how?) get the BPM out of traktor as a midi on off, a tick or something else? 
Hi,
Well you need to provide a MIDI out from your setup to your friend. Do you have a MIDI interface? What kind of controller are you using?
If you don’t have a MIDI interface then that is probably where you need to start.
I’m using good ol’ fashioned 1210’s - the master is set to auto and it changes from deck to deck as it should.
There is midi out on the Audio 8 soundcard but i would prefer some kind of WIFI solution
does the bpm change a lot in your sets? most people just type the bpm in seperately rather than have it sync’d its usually a bit more hassle than its worth.
most visualisation programs should have the option to read an audio input and determine BPM by themselves.
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Zster, I’m trying to work around the same problem. Have you found any good solutions?
if u just need an on/off for the beats then use the beat phase monitor - tho there’s one for each deck. if you’re going to feed this midi into something else then not sure why the midi clock isnt the bed solution anyway?
midi clock
I think midi clock would be the best solution. I’m trying to send signal out my Traktor S4 midi output through my padkontrol midi into another window 7 laptop with LightJockey, but I can’t get light jockey to read the signals incoming. LightJockey. I’ve set up the MTC device as the padKontrol 1 Midi in, but when I try to log the midi timecode it doesn’t register anything. I’m relatively new to using midi so I might be overlooking something.
you’re sending traktors midi out to your padkontrol which has a “THRU” actual midi port on the back which you have connected to the “IN” of another laptop?
i havent any clue about the padkontrol - but if it has a real midi “THRU” port which will route the midi you are sending it (via usb or midi “IN”?) then a midi cable from that “THRU” to the “IN” of the 2nd laptop should work in theory.
you’re using a “midi 2 usb” adapter thing on the 2nd laptop to get the real midi input into it? what happens if you try sending other midi data from traktor (like a beatphase monitor) to the padkontrol?
have you tried running something like midi-ox on that 2nd laptop to see if it sees any data? too many variables atm to know who the culprit is…
i presume when you mentioned S4 that’s only in reference to the traktor version you are using - as the S4 controller wouldn’t come into play here afaics.
a quick look at the spec says the padkontrol only has a midi in port and out port - so no thru port.
back in the day when real midi ports were more common i remember a couple of my synths being able to use their out’s as thru’s but i presume you’d need to configure that somewhere?
an out just xmits any data generated by that instrument, while a thru routes any data that came in back out again so you can daisy chain a whole bunch together without needing midi thru boxes.
edit: you could probably use a virtual midi device on each laptop and then use a midi to ip app to transmit, but as they’re going to be close together anyway why not just buy two cheap usb-to-midi adapters from ebay for a few quid each and then just use a midi cable direct between them? i.e: take the padkontrol out of the equation…
I’ve got the midi out of the actual S4 Controller, into the midi in on the padkontrol. I am trying to send out a midi timecode from traktor on one laptop into lightjockey on another. the reason I’m going through the padKONTROL is because that is what I have in my arsenal, and I didn’t want to go out and spend the money if the pad would work. Right now I can get midi-ox on the second computer to read timecoded signals coming in, but I cannot get LightJockey to recognize them. I’ve set up lightjockey to have the MIDI timecode device as padKONTROL 1 midi in. I don’t know if I’m missing something.
cool - well at least if midi-ox can see the messages then it can only be a software issue (of some kind) with lighjockey then. i actually didn’t realise that the S4 had real midi ports - that’s kind of cool… so you’re basically using the S4 and padkontrol in the same way as i described using 2 cheap usb/midi adapters.
a quick google came up with some info that lightjockey can trigger stuff from midi on/off events - but couldn’t see anything about actual “sync”