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Every now and then i use M-Audio’s Torq DVS to make music. I have been dj’ing in a bar for a few years and most times I was annoyed by the necessity for an external soundcard.<\/p>\n
i really like mixing with an external Mixer so controlling my dvs via Midi and using the internal mixing engine is not an option. I just like having physical access to the channel faders, the crossfader and the equalizers.<\/p>\n
Using a Macbook and a selfbuilt cable I found a way to use a dvs with an external mixer but without the need for an external soundcard.<\/p>\n
Starting with the cable. I cut a cinch-cable i had lying around. For every half the wires for left and right channel are soldered together to form a ‘cinch-bundle’.<\/p>\n
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Things are then soldered to a stereo headphone jack which fits into the Macbook. Ground to ground, of course.\u00a0 One ‘cinch-bundle’ is soldered to the left , one is soldered to the right pad of the headphone jack.<\/p>\n
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The whole construction is then drunk with hot glue to make it insensitive to mechanic stress.<\/p>\n
This way you have 2 pairs of cinch-cables coming out of your Macbook’s headphone jack (both mono, of course) which can be connected to a mixer.<\/p>\n
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In order to devide the Macbook’s audio output into two independent interfaces I use soundflower the following way: The 16ch-interface is connected to the built-in output of the Macbook. Channel 1 and 2 are routed to built-in output #1 (I guess it’s the left channel).<\/p>\n
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Channel 3 and 4 are routed to built-in output #2 (if #1 is the left side then maybe this is the right audio channel..).<\/p>\n
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All other channels’ outputs are set to ‘none’.<\/p>\n
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When I want to use a dvs with this solution I start soundflower and configure my dvs’s outputs as shown (channel 2 and 3 are my left and right deck’s output since I’m using Torq in 2-deck mode):<\/p>\n
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As mentioned earlier, you only have 2 mono outputs with this solution. This is not a solution for playing a big gig or club or any place where sound quality is a criterium at all. This is just a quick-and-dirty hack for playing in those places where sound quality just doesn’t matter that much (most of the bars I came across…). anyways…it works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Every now and then i use M-Audio’s Torq DVS to make music. I have been dj’ing in a bar for a few years and most times I was annoyed by the necessity for an external soundcard. i really like mixing with an external Mixer so controlling my dvs via \u2026 Continue reading