BCD3000 Questions

[Blink Me]

So I bought a Behringer BCD3000 today. It's kinda cool. I just have a few questions. I'm using it with Traktor LE by the way.
1. Is there a way I can just press the scratch button once and continously scratch without having to hold it down?
2. Is there anyway to get more effects?
3. Is there anyway I can set it up so that it plays from the laptop but I can still "pre-listen" in my headphones?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[hoppuspears]

i have the bcd2000 and that all possible on the 2000 as stock.. maybe the le version doesnt offer it.. wouldnt bother with the scrathing part thouhg lol

[samwiseb]

1. Yes, get the new Traktor 3 LE update, its on the NI website. There is a change to the scratch button functionality.
2. Not as far as I know, if there is let me know!
3. What do you mean? Your main output through your laptop speakers are you talking? I'm guessing you know how to use cueing on the BCD?

[Blink Me]

1. Ok wicked.
2. Damn.
3. For example, when DJing, there's speakers that the sound come out of, and the DJ can listen to the song before he plays it in the headphones. Is there anyway to set up the preferences so that the laptop speakers act as the main speakers but the headphones stay as the "pre-listening" advice.

Hope that helps.
Thanks for the help so far.

[DJ Fusion]

Monitoring the mix should be set by default, are you plugging your cans into the BCD and not your PC?

Also with BDJ it supported DX effects but not VST, not sure if the Traktr LE does the same.

[Blink Me]

I plug the BCD into the laptop via USB. The headphones into the BCD. The music plays out of my headphones only, no sound comes out of the laptop speakers. I have fiddled with the settings a little bit but the only result I've gotten is that the sound comes out of the laptop speakers and not the headphones, so really it's just reversed the situation. What do I do?

[JKWITS]

Hmm Something isn't right then. As others have said you sould be able to here sound out of the speakers and headphones when the volumes slider is up and then only the headphones if the volume slider is down but the cue button is pressed. I assume you have tried this but if not do so.

Otherwise you might need to play around with the master out channels and the cue channels which can be done in the preferences. I don't have it in front of me so can't say exactly where to look.

I haven't heard of this problem before so hopefully it is something simple you may have missed (not meaning any offence). good luck and have fun,

Jim

[atones]

It sounds like you've got the BCD set as the "soundcard" but nothing plugged in to its outputs (the RCAs at the back). This will give you sound in the phones but nothing through the speakers. When you changed the settings you set the laptop as the soundcard and so got sound through the speakers but not the phones.

You could probably get some external speakers, RCA cable and a RCA to 3.5mm adapter and set the BCD as the source. Theres a few ways you could set it up though.

[Blink Me]

Yeah, I know that you can make it work with external speakers but I'd rather just let it play through the laptop and the headphones. Any one know how to do it?
Thanks for all your input so far.

[samwiseb]

Your better off running it on decent speakers. Laptop speakers sound terrible.

[JKWITS]

Yeah, I know that you can make it work with external speakers but I'd rather just let it play through the laptop and the headphones. Any one know how to do it?
Thanks for all your input so far.


Right, that'll do it too. Plug it into something. Seriously that is the best way to go. Even cheap nasty portable stereos often have an aux input

[Blink Me]

Can't I just play it through the laptop?
I don't care if it sounds terrible.