What You Need To Use Vinyl With Tracktor

Connecting a turntable to the traktor s4 mk3.

What you need to use vinyl with tracktor. This is two for each soundcard one from the turntable cdj to the stereo line input and one from the stereo output to your mixer. Using an ios device to stream isn t the best way to run a high quality stream so stick with a laptop if you can. Open the preferences dialog. For the dvs enthusiasts out there traktor pro 3 sees traktor scratch capability included as standard.

Firstly yes it s easy to use the traktor kontrol s4 to rip vinyl. So as well as playing your crate digging finds you can cut scratch and backspin your beats without wrecking your. I am interested in purchasing a traktor a6 package but i am unsure how i can switch between timecode and normal vinyl. Set the input mode for audio 4 dj in 1 2 3.

To get started you ll need a traktor kontrol s4 a laptop usb cable to connect the controller a variety of loops or breakbeats to scratch over and a collection of digital scratch samples. Aside from these essentials it s also recommended that you find a dj mentor to study with and a handful of djs you can listen to and watch for. Dj controllers give you the flexibility to dj using the controller itself or with a pair of decks. Step 3 variant 2.

Traktor kontrol s4 mk2 traktor scratch pro 2 traktor kontrol s8 traktor scratch pro 2 pioneer dj ddj rx rekordbox dj pioneer dj ddj sz2 serato dj. In order to get these soundcards to work for your two channel dvs setup you ll need to have four y cables stereo rca to 1 8. You plug a turntable into one of the external inputs don t forget to earth it and set to phono then you just set one of the software s channel inputs to live in the traktor settings and hit record in traktor. A turntable that requires a separate phono preamp has to be connected to mixer channel a or b.

Adjusting latency settings is easy in. We d mostly recommend running with this if it s a last resort. Use our timecode vinyl with any sound card you like just hook up turntables or cd players to your sound card and spin away. Click line cd control if you are using timecode cds or click vinyl control if you are using timecode vinyls.

I would like to just be able to use my phone line toggle on my mixer but from what i have read you have to change something in the software everytime you change between the two which sounds a bit slow and frustrating. The mixer channels on the s4 allow you to connect up to two phono level audio devices.