Will This Do the Job? (Soundcard)
Although cheap and basic, will this soundcard allow me to run my laptop into my sound system and input my headphones for cue-ing tracks in Ableton Live?
I don’t know anything about ableton, but that probably wouldn’t work for Traktor cueing because it does not have enough channels. The headphone port probably shares the same channel as the RCA outs.
This diagram may help.
Would this work or not? It seems to have an output for the speakers and a headphone input.
This sound card comes up about every month or so. It actually will not do 2 discrete outputs. The headphones are the same as the rca and if I remember right when I looked over the specs, it will actually cut the rca if you plug into the headphone, but I could be remembering wrong. I know for sure the headphone and rca are the same.
Can anyone recomend a cheap(ish) soundcard can do the job of acting as an out to speakers and allows headphone cue-ing?
Audio 2 Dj
I have a Numark DJ i/O for sale 
i have a M-Audio Fast Track Pro for sale if your interested mate ?
Buy 2 of the Behringer AI’s…
The Behringer could work, but don’t expect a fantastic card. True Behringer focusses on bang for buck, but for low budget, there’s just so much you can do.
actually if you are using a mac you can set up Aggregate Audio so you can use more than one sound card or a external sound card and the built in one.
Step 1: Visit the interface manufacturers’ websites to
verify that you have the latest driver software.
Step 2: Connect the interfaces to your computer.
Step 3: Open the Utilities folder inside your
Applications folder. Double-click on Audio MIDI
Setup.
Step 4: Click on the Audio Devices tab.
Step 5: From the Audio Menu, select Open Aggregate Device Editor.
Step 6: Click the + sign to create a new Aggregate
Device. All connected interfaces should appear in the
Structure Window.
Step 7: Select the ones you want to use (in this case,
PODxt and M-Audio Black Box).
Step 8: Click “Done” to close the editor and return to
the Audio MIDI Setup screen.
Step 9: Select “Aggregate Device” as your Default
Input. Don’t change your output setting.
Step 10: Quit Audio MIDI Setup. Your Aggregate
Device will now appear in any Audio Unit-
compatible application.
then in traktor select Aggregate device in the sound card option
I’m going to throw in a vote for the Audio 2 DJ or Audio 4 DJ…both are sturdy pieces of kit and sound pretty good.
the same can be done with a pc, and asio4all drivers
for the original poster, do a search for soundcard, there is a ton of info on the site
Dude I appreciate that this can be a quick solution but why on earth would anyone want to do that messy latency nightmare when an Audio 2 (or another brand) is so cheap and convenient.
Aggregate soundcards are shit for djing. The latency is crap.
Its a bad way for a noob to start in my opinion.
Ive got loads of soundcards but at the moment im just using an Audio 2 with (the VCI). Its ace.
it looks/sounds essentially the same as my numark djio. my headphones piggy back off the second pair of rcas. don’t see why it wouldn’t do the job. but it’s not the best option.
have you check out the article on home page about sound cards?
Im not sure that Traktor will see the Headphone out separately like it does with the DJio.
Im not convinced it will work so that you can monitor and play the master.
Just a thought.
Should work, Traktor will out put to whatever channel you tell it to for cueing. But you will not have a headphone amp. So the output level to the phones could be real low.
Phil.
Yeah but will that just be one stereo output?
What i mean is that Traktor may not see the headphone output and the master output as 2 separate channels (stereo) so you wont be able to assign a monitor and have a separate master. You will have the master playing out of both monitior & master or you will only have one choice , master OR monitor. It may just give one stereo output like a laptop..?
Again, just a thought.
@ bradCee The DJ i/o has 2 separate outputs, one of which can be assigned to the headphones. This Behringer only has 1 output (the 2nd set of rcas on the back is an input)
This interface is really designed to import analog signals into your computer, and IMHO is not worth the effort it would take to make it work as a dj soundcard. Better off spending a little more and getting the proper gear.