Ableton for DJ'ing - External Sound Cards for Cue

Stevene · Post by **Stevene** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 3:21 am

Hi!

I've lately been messing around with Live for DJ'ing and need some advice as to what to buy. What I need to accomplish is this:

I need to be able to "cue" songs in headphones before crossfading to them. What do I need to buy to accomplish this? Obviously the single headphone jack on the side of my Macbook Pro isn't going to work for this.

I'd like something that is relatively inexpensive, and it needs to work with the latest version of OS X.

Steve

afglbc7 · Post by **afglbc7** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 4:19 am

I am in the exact same boat. I went to Guitar Center and they said that the Numark DJ IO was my answer. I am struggling with setting it up where I can cue a song. Let me know if you have already figured it out.

Stevene · Post by **Stevene** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 5:00 am

I think we can both help each other solve our problems.

Here's what you can do to test it for me:

1. Open Live
2. Go into Prefrences (command+,)
3. Click "audio" on the left
4. You will see "Audio Output Device", under the dropdown box for that tell me what you see...

thoffir · Post by **thoffir** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 6:25 pm

buy usb headphones or use any of those (that is the cheapest method):
http://www.google.com/products?q=usb+au ... ts&show=dd

in the meantime (i assume that almost everyone should have it at home):
http://www.hdaccessory.com/catalog/splittermini.JPG

so you can have immediately dj fun but in mono but this is only temporaily solution unil you get usb dongle - ch1 for main mix, ch2 for cue.

djpowder1200 · Post by **djpowder1200** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 5:35 am

i bought an m audio fast track pro, and it's been great for me....stay away from that numark junk. the only thing i'd ever use with numark on it might've been a needle (back in the vinyl days). and of course if ya wanna go ghetto fabulous, splitters will do the trick. i dj'd in mono for a long time....nobody ever seemed to notice.

aaronfusco · Post by **aaronfusco** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 5:45 pm

the beauty of ableton is that you dont need soundcards to cue for Djng. Just know you're songs, do some clever warping to mark transitions, and use the graphics to keep track of where you are and when to mix in your tracks. No headphones required.

chasedestroy · Post by **chasedestroy** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 5:10 pm

Native Instruments Audio Kontrol1.

4 outputs (i still like to use a HW mixer)

the headphone out has a button to select which set of outputs you are listening to.

it has a metal case. this is important if you are playing out, drinking and gear and supermegafans and chicks trying to get your telephone # can be hard on gear.

thoffir · Post by **thoffir** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 2:16 am

aaronfusco wrote:the beauty of ableton is that you dont need soundcards to cue for Djng. Just know you're songs, do some clever warping to mark transitions, and use the graphics to keep track of where you are and when to mix in your tracks. No headphones required.

that's nice trick, i'm using it after correct warping by moving markes in cue-point places. it really works.

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 2:24 am

I'm cringing on so many levels right now....

http://abletonlivedj.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2903

Ableton for DJ'ing - External Sound Cards for Cue

Ableton for DJ'ing - External Sound Cards for Cue

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