Macbook Built in monitoring?! WOW!
Ive got a 2 way splitter coming out of my mac’s headphone out and you can actually put a master and monitor down each split. Its not very loud, but im impressed the internal soundcard can do this. Anyone else tried it?
no how do you do it?
iam also interested
It’s a somewhat old trick, but yeah, they can do that, the quality and volume isn’t exactly great, but it’s nifty none the less 
I just plugged a 2 way splitter into my mac headphone socket, then you go into the traktor audio output preferences and select your internal soundcard. Select one channel for master and one for monitor. It’s left and right, but if you make your output mono, it’s an alternative that works ok in the bedroom. Wouldn’t recommend it for playing out though.
it’s not really a macbook thing, you could do that with any single stereo out.
(am secretly a mac fanboy)
I thought it was more clever than it was because i have one output to a mono sub and i plugged in a single ear’d peair of hd25s to test it. So in my mind it was 2 stereo outs. But thats not the case. lol
(In other news, I’ve just ordered a vci-100 black and a NI Audio2, arcade buttons from ebay and going to sticker the whole thing with moo.com custom stickers 22x22mm
Going to source knobs myself and get the machining done for free as a favor from a customer.)
How are you going to source the knobs? I haven’t been able to find them anywhere!
With the Mac there is a much more simple way of getting 4 out puts therefore giving you stereo sound on both you master and monitor get any kind of external soundcard does not matter what kind as long as it has a stereo output mine cost about £15. then open up Audio Midi Setup from your mac settings then click Audio and click open new aggregate device then press the plus button to create a new device underneath there will be a list with all you outputs and inputs select your outputs on both the internal and external soundcard then its should say aggregate device 4 outs. then you go into tracktor and assign the out puts to master and moniter, its easyier to work out which is which if you play a song while setting it up then exporting your settings which just saves a file traktor can refer back to. hope this helps.
same thing can be done in windows by using the asio4all drivers…just plug in a second soundcard and use the asio4all drivers as the audio source in traktor.
i stall cant get this to work ? pls help what do you set the master out too ?
what are you using?
i have set my Audio midi Setup as above but im not sure what to set the system setttings properties for and the output should be set too ? with the clock set to the built-in audio in the structure window ? all the four aggregate are set in Trakordj but when i click play not a thing
for my sound card i have a novation remote 25 audio
my mac is a G5 dual 2 ghz with 10.5.8
Traktor 3.3.2
right so in prefrence’s you got you aggregate sound device selected as your main out i run it at 44100hz with a 11.5ms latency. then you go into output options and select internal mode you should have three options you only need monitor and master plug some speakers into your sound card and headphones into the Mac’s in-built output then depending on which order you stated when you set up the aggregate device the two stereo audio channels will be 0 1 2 3. 0 and 1 together, 2 and 3 together then you should be able to test each ti find the monitor and the master. if that does not work then delete and and create a new aggregate device and try again
thank you so much for your reply herbstrike
Did you get it to work in the end I was very intoxticated when I wrote that reply
This has nothing to do with your computer being a Macbook, by the way.
I can’t believe ppl are asking how to do this.
Honestly guys, its not rocket science..
To mono split the master and monitor from left and right signals just open the audio routing and…
Well.. surely you can figure it out from there!
Ha this is great. I knew about this but never tried because of my external soundcard. Well, that recently tanked and this works great. I like a mono signal anyways, considering I only use one of my cabs when practicing. 