How do I set up my Traktor and Xone K2 with external club mixer?

Stephen S

Hello everyone,

I've done a few searches but couldn't find specifically what I wanted to ask.

I use Traktor Pro 3, with a Xone K2 set up as a mixer (no external mixer at home).

Last night, tried to set up through a club mixer but had a bit of a nightmare.

In my mind, I wanted to simply use the K2 as I would at home, but connect the RCA output to an input channel in the mixer. After following the routing guides in Traktor, routing the output to external etc - it still wouldn't work.

After a lot of messing around, I found a video where you link the RCA output to one channel in the mixer, and then the headphone jack to another channel on the mixer. But this means cueing through the mixer and using the volume/eq in the mixer, not the K2. The play/loop, start functions still worked on the K2.

I mean, it works fine but it seems like a bit mess around. Plus I could only then use two decks in Traktor where I normally run 3 and a Remix deck.

Couple of questions:

• Did I miss something?
• What do I need to run 4 decks? I'm guessing an audio interface?

If we look at Guy J in these images, he's just running a K1 into the laptop but doing everything through the K1.

Thanks!

red_nick

In my mind, I wanted to simply use the K2 as I would at home, but connect the RCA output to an input channel in the mixer. After following the routing guides in Traktor, routing the output to external etc - it still wouldn't work.

You've completely muddled together the two ways you could do it, with the result of it not working. Either:

• use internal mode like you normally do: Audio out of the K2 into one channel of the mixer, keep that channel turned up. That's all, no changes from your usual setup I imagine.
• Or external mode: connect your laptop directly to the mixer itself. I'd imagine most club mixers out in the world are going to have USB audio, so you just connect your laptop to that. Setup external mixing mode correctly and everything should work great.
• If the DJ mixer doesn't have USB audio (e.g. Xone 92), or doesn't have enough channels of USB audio, then you would need a USB audio interface with sufficient channels.

What mixer were you using?