i can have access to a vestax pro 06 for 60$ is it a good deal? will a regular mixer be fine or should i go for a midi mixer $$$ (if i plan on using it for production inside daws) ?
thanks m8
Youll need a mixer for this step. There might be a workaround, but thats starting to get a bit brain bendy for me if im not physically in front of it.
As for the distortion: Make sure that the output from your TT and the input into the Audio 4 are matched. ie TT set to phono and A4 set to phono, or the same for Line.
Then turn down the master output from VDJ until you get a good level for the input into Live.
Contact Oscar da Grouch in LA or turnstyle records, get whatever samples you want to scratch cut to a hiQ dubplate and then record the scratches straight off of vinyl. On a level note. I don’t suggest using the same computer for gigging as for producing bruv. It’s well worth the investment to do so on seperate machines. Trust me it is a whole lot less pain to lose all of the music from your dj library as opposed to all of the presets, plugins, samples, and projects you have created/collected over the years.
Separate computers isnt the answer. Having regular meaningful backups is the answer. Your computer at home can get stolen every bit as much as the laptop you take out.
What kind of neighborhood do you live in? 
It’s less about it getting stolen and more about ti getting damaged. When My laptop got bumped off the stage at PAradiso, the hard drive was ravaged (pre-solid state). Also had DJ Swamp ruin a backup drive with his fire act. My fault for leaving it on the booth, but still happened nonetheless.
Never had a production computer get damaged or stolen…
I work in IT. I have had this conversation and seen this literally hundreds of times. Every one of those people thought losing data was something that happened to someone else. Fire, failure,flood, theft, user error (most common) are all things that do happen.
Youve already lost all your data on your home computer if its not backed up in three places with one offsite, its just a matter of time when.
got my mixer, can we start again from there.
Thank you!
Digressing:
Actually recording the actual timecode signal would be an interesting experiment. Could you record the timecode signal and play it back to Traktor would it be like controlling it through automation? I think I have a goal tonight.
Import the timecode CD and save as a Wav file
use max/msp to play it back to Traktor
Automate the playing of the file and see what I come up with.
I’ve thought about this MANY times, mate!!!
Potentially, you could record juggle clips into Ableton Clips, and route them back into Traktor to magically juggle the tracks there!
Interesting… I think you’d have to use Absolute mode - otherwise the silence would cause issues when routing the recorded time code pattern back into Ableton.
I had these thoughts a few years back when The Phat Conductor/Ill Gates originally wrote about IAC Midi Juggling using midi clips…
im using a traktor audio 6, and a MBP (and a little mackie mixer to route the audio outs) …with NO EXTERNAL APPS.. and i run traktor into ableton AND can overdub without ableton recording itself.
i achieve this by actually running traktor from the 3/4 outs of the audio 6 back into itself on the 1/2 ins. then i have ableton run out of the 5/6 outs into the mackie on its own channel, and traktor out the 1/2 outs also on its own channel on the mackie. this way i can monitor both what ive recorded in ableton, and what im sending from traktor, separately, all while getting ableton to lay down new tracks from traktor wthout hearing the master in the recordings.
it actually took me some head scratching and some experimenting to get this to pan out, and the biggest leap of faith taken being running the sound card back into itself. i just didnt think the A6 would like being looped like that, but it did!
Ms. Pinky is old news, and never really took off.
You can also use Deckadance as a multi instant VST in Ableton…
Or directly scratch track and draw these automation curves.
That is very very interesting. Could you sketch it out on paper and post it here. Im really better at getting things when i see em.
sounds like its really great and would love to try it out.
Thanks for your contribution m8!
Cheers!