Serato Video General Discussion

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 Serato Video General Discussion
Do I now need to get an external audio interface.
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Do I now need to get an external audio interface.

Madison Hayes 4:52 PM - 25 June, 2009
Just making sure I didn't overlook something. Using a Macbook, Vestax 05, SL-1, Numark midi controller.
Thought I only needed the midi controller but when I took it out I realized there's no place to plug in headphones to cue. Do I now need to get an external audio interface?

Also I noticed when I run videos the fan runs pretty strong. Is there something I can do to help this? Could it be a problem if it runs like this for hours?

Thanks,

Madison
tomatoslice 6:59 PM - 25 June, 2009
by "cue" i assume you mean audio, with that you cue thru the mixer.

you could get one of those laptop stands with cooling fans.
Madison Hayes 7:46 PM - 25 June, 2009
Don't you have to set the mixer crossfader in the middle?
If I'm playing on the left deck I have to turn the volume down for the right deck through the midi mixer, thus not giving me sound to cue through the vestax mixer?
Also I played with it a little after my last post and it looks like the midi cross fader can't control the audio either, only video. It seems I have to map the serato volume controls to the upfaders on the midi mixer. When I do this the sound quality sounds like sh*t, or do I have it hooked up wrong? Sorry.. new to using midi.
Dj Nyce 7:07 AM - 30 June, 2009
with the equipment you are using you should be using the vestax fader to xfade audio on deck 1 and 2. the numark should be mapped to the video fader in ssl and used to xfade video on deck 1 and 2. upfaders on the vestax would only control audio levels at the mixer and sliders/knobs on the numark would only control the video levels (opacity) at vsl.