Regular Vinyl playback in Traktor Scratch Pro
Hey guys, I’ve been messing around in Traktor Scratch Pro and it’s awesome! I have some records coming in from Chemical Records and wanted to know how do you set up Traktor Scratch to play regular vinyl on one deck while the other is playing timecode.
I know this option was very obvious in Traktor Pro 1, but I haven’t noticed the Audio Through option in 2.
Thanks!
If you click on the Deck letter then a drop down menu turns up that gives you the option of setting the deck to scratch control, or live input - you want live input.
Theres an option to let the audio run through a deck. I have it bound to midi so i can go back and forth when I’m running internal. Otherwise. With a piggy back cable and mixing externally, you can use the line/phono switch to go between. 
I think I remember that you have to recalibrate every time you switch the deck back from a live input to a vinyl-controled track deck.
If that’s the case, I’d get an RCA splitter and use the line/phono switches on your mixer.
And if you don’t have a mixer…umm…buy one…they’re better anyway.
Torq wins on this then, all you have to do is turn a knob and its done. i always new torq was better than traktor
how is pressing a button different from turning a knob? oO and it’s even easier on an external mixer…
Actually, SSL won with the SL1, since it had thru outputs on the sound card. You just needed an extra RCA pair to use the line/phono switch instead of splitting it or dealing with the audio running through Traktor.
Although, everything becomes easy with the Vestax 05proIV, since it has “to DVS” outputs on the back of the mixer…so you can leave the decks plugged in the whole time and still switch between DJs and between real media and DVS with a switch on the mixer the way it should be.
If they came out with a 3 or 4-channel version, I’d order it in a heartbeat.
BTW, I’ve owned SSL, Torq, and Final Scratch 2 (though not a recent version of TS)…and SSL won ease of use hands-down when it was all just 2 decks. Now, everybody’s abandoned the thru outputs on their soundcards, which makes everything harder.
I guess Torq would win now…except that there’s no god damned reason for it to be knobs instead of switches. If you’ve never bumped one of them and had the control tone play through the speakers just loud enough for it to bug the crap out of you for half an hour, consider yourself lucky. Seriously…I expected better from Avid (who owned M-Audio when torq came out, just to save that argument). They obviously don’t give a shit.
TSP2 does it automatically and it only takes seconds.
Yeah but u have to get another cable. U don’t in torq
He is using tsp not tsp2. With torq you don’t have to have the latest hardware either it just comes standard.
Steevo, you mean you have to take the other cable out of the box. And even if you had to, it’s going to radio shack and spend $10 on RCA cables instead of having those dumb-ass knobs.
SSL vs. Traktor is a legit comparison. Both of them lost to Torq years ago as far as I’m concerned, and I have owned some version of all 3.
Hahaha! What a joke???!!! 
Popularity won the battle as torq wasn’t marketed the same. I Have used all three. Torqs sampler is on another level from serato and traktor
maybe i’m a fool, but i kept noticed my records sounded like shit using the through function in tsd2 on an audio 6. i think it’s because i was running off of usb power, can anyone confirm?
Multicore cables and external mixer. Then you just flip from line to phono on the mixer, and watch tsp go nuts trying to read your vinyl as timecode (sound is unaffected since that signal is cut off at the mixer).
hi mate I have tried what you said, I’ve selected live input on the deck and calibrated it and it still doesn’t work. I have a phono cable running from the line audio slots on the back of the mixer to my traktor audio 6 soundcard. Also the line/phono switch is usually on line when I am using timecode with that deck but for this purpose I switched it to phono however I havn’t had any luck. What would I need a RCA splitter for? I would eventually like It to be set up so I can use the line/phono switch on the mixer to determine whether im using vinyl or timecode mode. Hope to hear from you soon. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much.
I would like to know if an RCA-splitter does the same job as Traktor Multi Core cables. It seems my Multi Core is broken since the signal from one channel is bad.
Tomorrow my only option is to play with a pair of Technics but would really like to play vinyl as well with them. I seem to get mixed information if this works or not.
In a nutshell:
Technics → AUDIO 8 IN → AUDIO 8 OUT, pair of RCA per deck → Split the end (2) to 4 → Mixer Line and Mixer Phono per channel. YES or NO?