vci-1000 + macbook pro = headphones?
hey guys, i just got my vci-100 and i was wondering if there is anyway to get my headphones working without buying any additional soundboxes or anything of that matter. i heard it is possible with usb headphones, but is there any other way? and if usb is the only way can i just buy an adapter?
thanks
joey
There is a second audio-interface needed. I guess USB-headphones contain one of them.
What I did once was seperating the channels. That means I the left channel of a normal soundcard sending audio to the headphones and the right channel sending to the master but effectively you only have mono this way, which is not acceptable imo.
^^ How did you do that? Sounds like a decent way to get by until I can afford to buy an interface.
I connected a 3,5mm jack cable (which has 2 cinch-connectors on the other side) to the notebook.
On both of the cinch-connectors I plugged an adaptor (cinch to double-cinch) which doubles the channel. On one of them I plugged another adaptor (female double-cinch to jack-connector). I connected these with headphones and amplifier and was done.
However this is just enough to bridge some time.
Better get a real audio-interface which includes ASIO-drivers and a bunch of OUTs
Then select Master Output to Left Channel (if that goes to the Amp) Check the Mono Box. And select Monitor Output to Right Channel (if that goes to Headphones) Check the Mono Box.
I used to do the same thing to separate the channels to an external mixer but using External Mixer mode in Traktor 3 when i didnt have a soundcard.
Just takes some bodging of leads and adapters and ‘Y’ splitters as we call em.
Good tip HedgeHog.
Yeah, I wasn’t sure about how all the cables and adaptors are called in English 
While practicing I’m mostly too lazy to attach my external soundcard so I just mix without headphones. Just the delay of my internal soundcard is 20ms, which ist way too much for difficult for complicated cue-juggling.
same over here…you can get a better latency with using “asio4all” with your internal soundcard:
got mine set to 1ms…works like butter
okay so there is no real efficient way to do this unless i buy something, which would be what? <— noobie.
Even when one FX channel is active for each deck?
Can’t take mine below 10ms, but I have a crappy IBM Lenovo T61.
You need one jack (the thing you plug into your notebook)-to-cinch cable, 2 Y-adaptors (cinch (the things you put inside an amp) and another adaptor from cinch to jack that you can put in your headphones.
Can you unplug your headphone cable or is it built-in?
i’m a little confused, if the way your talking about doing it isnt the real way, like i want stereo not mono and mono, what do i have to buy, an external soundcard?
Cant have stereo. Cant split the signal.
This works by Setting the Output in Traktor to Mono . Its actually stereo but through one lead (split into 2) so you get both left/right in each cable. You just wont hear any stereo panning.
The way i used it was a bit different from Hedgehog.
If you have an external mixer it means you can have Deck A in one channel and Deck B in the other and cue using the mixers headphone out.
One of these.
Two of these (one on each of the RCAs above)
2 of these RCA leads. One goes to channel A on mixer one goes to Channel B.
It was a long time ago , i hope i remembered this right ???
each channel with efx on also with keylock on…i´m on an old hp nc8000; 1.6ghz/2gigs ram…
how are your settings in the asio4all control panel?
if you want the real deal you got to purchase an external soundcard with 2 outputs, one master and one monitor.. there are a lot of solutions out there, in almost every pricerange.. just search the forum for soundcard..
and here’s a great vid of ean to the subject..
good external audio interfaces for the money
The Native Instruments Audio4 DJ has all the outputs you’ll need. I actually really like the “Conectiv” interface from M-Audio; it’s ideal for both Torq and Ms.Pinky-based DVS because it has built-in phono preamps. It also has a convenient knob on the top to mix the headphone jack between outputs 1-2 and outputs 3-4.
So for example, you can send the Traktor main output to outputs 1-2 on the Conectiv, and the Cue output to 3-4, and use the knob on the hardware interface to cue with true-zero latency.
The Audio4DJ streets for $199, and AFAIK the Conectiv is only available with the Conectiv Torq product (which streets for $299). You might find a great used deal on a Conectiv though, because lots of peeps start with Torq as their first DVS and trade up to Serato later.
Finally, there may be software for your Mac that allows you to “merge” more than one 2-channel audio interface (like a Kensington iMic) into a virtual 4+ channel interface. That’s a) only worth the hassle if you already have some iMic’s laying around, and b) a lower quality, lower stability solution than a real multichannel audio i/o.
Since it sounds like you’re mostly aiming toward Traktor, I’d go with the Audio4. It’ll be the most important $200 you spend for quite a while.
I think everyone has forgotten what the O.P. actually asked
Short answer…Nope. The amount of time you’ll spend stuffing around trying to split your sound up u may as well just get a S/C dude.
If forgetting the original question is for the OP’s own good, is it still wrong? 
