Reply to Numark total control issues

Hi, I'm just getting started as a bedroom DJ hopefully I'll be able to play parties and join the student radio when I start university in september.

I've been using traktor and bought a Numark Total Control. I know some people say it's a "plastiktoy" but really I believe it does the job i need pretty well and has a very user friendly layout for traktor.

My problem is the TC stops working when I connect my USB sound card (just a very small cheap single output device).

I have 1 root USB port so swapping the devices around different ports hasn't helped. I have tried using a power cable for the TC but it made no difference. I have yet to try a powered hub because I can't find one among my friends, would it help?

My laptop specs are:
Windows 7
2.1Ghz AMD Athlon dual core
4GB DDR2 ram


One last thing, I'm using asio4all, and always have to even when the monitor headphones are not connected because traktor crashes when i connect it straight to the internal Realtek card. Is it possible to not use asio4all? If not is it possible to use other audio programs such as youtube at the same time as traktor? If nothing else the current situation is a pain because i need to close other programs before opening traktor not just stop audioplayback.


thanks soooo much to anyone who can help I have been struggling to find any information on it searching online.


-Andy