Running plugins in Traktor
I’d like to see Traktor have the ability to host plugins, without having to route audio internally through a DAW, with the ability to assign midi control to certain parameters in the plugins.
Just a thought.
You, me and most, if not all of the traktor users here. Vsts would be rad! That’s the one thing I miss about using vdj.
need this feature, maybe in Traktor 3…
You can always route Traktor into Ableton, thats the way i use it!!!
yeah and just spend another 350$ for it when it could be done for free, sure…
Check this tutorial by armyofme
It’s a stability thing. If you allow users to use VSTs, you give them the ability to royally screw up their setup if they’re not careful. A dodgy VST can crash traktor and then NI is inundated with complaints totally unrelated to their software.
It would be really cool if you could use VSTs in traktor, but I think NI would worry that enough people would misuse it and complain, denting NI’s reputation for stability.
they should create and or certifiy other VSTs so the stability would be a moot point
Try out this solution…
Free Host for VST + traktor:
What is Stompy?
Stompy is a free VST host for Mac which allows you load either a VST Effect or a VST Instrument. It has four audio inputs so that you can route any of Traktor’s decks to your VST effect. The parameters of the effect can all be mapped quickly and easily to any hardware MIDI controller and the BPM of the effect is synced to Traktor’s BPM. Stompy can also host VST Instruments which can be routed through, and BPM-synced to, Traktor. You can then use Traktor’s in-built effects to further modify the sound.
Although designed to work with Traktor, you can still use Stompy as a standalone VST host.
Features:
- Apply VST effects to Mic input, Line in or to any software that allows you to choose an audio out device
- Add VST effects to any or all of Traktor’s decks (Soundflower required)
- Syncs to MIDI Clock & Traktor’s BPM for delay / glitch / time-based FX
- Instantly map VST parameters to any MIDI controller
- Store your favourite controllers / VST parameters as presets
- Route VST instruments through Traktor’s live input and sync these to Traktor’s BPM
- TouchOSC and Lemur layouts included so you can control your VST with your iPad
It’s not rocket science to host plug-ins in another process, Logic does this already in 32-bit mode and Bitwig supposedly has this feature (Live does not which is bizarre as Live is a live instrument.) Anyway, with this in place the plug-ins could crash and it does not matter.
I wish I could hook PSP VintageWarmer into Traktor’s output chain without all kinds of Soundflower/JackOS hacks…
know of any for PC? A macbook is double the price of my laptop with the same specs.. Not gonna be switching to the iPayTooMuch anytime soon.
I don’t see how that can be true. Maschine is a far deeper more CPU hungry app than Traktor, and it can handle VST plugs easily while at the same time generating synths, drums, loops, samples etc…
All Traktor is doing is playing and layering tracks. Am I missing something?
You missed the fact that this thread is nearly 5 years old…
No I didn’t.
The issues seems to be the same none-the-less.
Traktor still does not support VST, does it?
VST hosting is not as easy as it sounds in a deejaying scenario. Look at everything Traktor does. Now compare that to the minimum system requirements. The software is barely cutting it under the minimum requirements already (utilizing remix decks, sequencer, sample decks, fx, mix recorder, etc.).
Now let’s look at the support aspect. You take a windows machine missing msvcr70.dll
Now you have a system issue where running legacy plugins (widebag for example) is not possible, but easily fixed. The customer will instead blame it on the software (Traktor) instead of looking into the root issue. You also will have a boat load of support tickets flooding the box for people having issues with third party plugins.
You could create a list of supported pugins, but now you are looking into licensing.
OK. Fair enough. But what about my Maschine comparison? Does Traktor really have that much more going on under the hood than Maschine?
the dream today would be that traktor became a VST itself… imagine
Using Traktor as a plugin in Ableton would be fucking sick.
For real, I wonder how many pages of threads he went through before coming across this.
yes… I was dreaming the same