Reply to [Soundcard:Traktor Pro] Setting Up Presonus Firebox Soundcard W\Traktor Pro

Alright,

We get lots of questions on exactly how to cue using different soundcards. Today i am going to demonstrate how to cue using a presonus firebox mixer. These basic principles can be adapted for nearly any soundcard though so even if you dont have a presonus firebox and you have no idea how to setup your soundcard read this tutorial anyway, it should help.

1) First you need to install the software that comes with the soundcard and connect up your soundcard.

2) Nows the software is installed we need to select which output is going to be used my the headphone jack. In this case the Presonus FireBox has a spdif out connection that i never so we will select this as the channel we wish to monitor.
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3) Now we have that setup we need to set the audio latency of the card so lets open up the "FireBox Control Panel". You will want to tweak this as low as you can without hearing audible glitches so lets just start with this setting first and you can adjust this to suit your computer later.



4)Now to Open Traktor pro and set Traktor up with the soundcard. When you open Traktor press "file" then "Audio setup. Now make sure your settings look as shown in this picture.



5a) If you are mixing internally and not using an external analogue mixing interface then in Traktors "Output Routings" tab you need to set it up shown in this first picture. The "Output Monitor" setting what you want to come out of your headphones so lets select SpdifOut which we selected to monitor on the Firebox in step 2. Physically connect the output jacks 1 and 2 on the back of your FireBox to your amplifier or if your in a club into the back of the house mixer then select MainOut as the Output Master. The Output master is the decks mixed together and ready to be played out the speakers.



5b) If you wish to mix externally on a analogue mixer then select External and setup as follows-



6) Now if you wish to cue or preview just click the Cue buttons or click the Preview buttton on rather the interface or your midi controller and it will be played out your headphones. If you cant hear anything comming out of your headphones make sure the volume is turned up a cue volume knob in the Traktor software and on the face of the soundcard is both turned up.