So I want to use Traktor with my 2 CDJ2000 NXS and DJM 900. Can you advise if I should use the players' sound card or the mixer's sound card and some pros and cons too please?
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CDJ soundcard AND Traktor soundcard, use the CDJ's to send their signal to the DJM.
Use the DJM soundcard for recording and live input.
Cons, can only use 2 decks.
Use the DJM soundcard for everything make something to switch the CDJ A to CDJ C and B to D.
Then you can play 4 decks with 2 CDJ's.
When I use the CDJs with Traktor I prefer to use directly the audio interface of the CDJs and the HID mode. It works very well and you don't need to use the timecode CDs.
If you use the card of the mixer you need then to use the timecode CDs which is not very nice IMHO. I like the timecode vinyl but not the CD timecode (too many button pushes before you can play...)
Another option is to use both of them: the audio interfaces of the CDJs for controlling and playing the music and the DJM audio card for recording.
So when I am just hooking up the CDJs to my laptop and hitting link on the CDJs, that route is using the CDJs sound card?
Also just to clarify, I would NOT use time code as there is simply no point to it. I just wanted to know what the best method was and of course reliable.
So once I hook up to Traktor, am I correct in assuming there is no more HID? Is it just one way now?
No if you just hook up the cdjs and push link (when traktor is running already) you just connect them as controllers. If you want to use them as sound cards you have first to run the cdj agregator utility from pioneer and then select them in the configuration menu of traktor audio routing, at least the first time (from the second time traktor should understand it automagically, but you must run the aggregator everytime).
On the old cdj 2000 you also had to select advanced hid mode from the cdj menu.
with the nexus it's not necessary, there is no need to configure that in the cdj, just hit link, if you also have the usb stick connected you will have to choose between usb stick and computer link, then choose which of the 4 traktor decks to connect to cdj.
OK cool. Thanks again for the help. I will try shortly. By the way, I am using windows 7 so I assume that the aggregate stuff is not needed or windows does it on its own or something like that (i recall from a video I had watched).
exactly, the CDJ Aggregator utility is for Mac OS X only, I don't remember how it's done on Windows. You can search in the Traktor forum, there it's well explained.
You would use ASIO4ALL within Windows.