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After a few weeks of not being able to get into town to get a 3.5mm jack to suite the 1/4 inch jack on the Rmx i finially got one this morning.

Plugged it in and went to cue the first song, but uh oh, it dosn't work.

Here are my settings:





The Headphones are plugged into the top right of the RMX.

Thanks
Dan
 
Posted Sun 08 Nov 09 @ 2:17 pm

Can I ask, why are you using a 2 sound card set up when using the RMX.

If you just choose the DJConsole RMX icon (in the main sound card window) you should have no problem with cue'ing
 
I have just set the soundcard to RMX.

I've already done this and BOTH decks play though the head phone, there is no output on my speakers.

Reason i thought i'd select 2 cards is because:

#1, it worked fine when i had my DJ Console MP3 with head phones
#2, i'm running my speakers from the sound card that is installed into my PC. There is NOTHING connected into the back of the RMX but the USB cable.

Thanks
 
Hi mate

In the setup try setting the sound card on your pc to output the master from front and the headphones from rear. then plug your headphones into the rear output jack on your pc.

The RMX is not designed to work this way it is intended to have its own sound card driving an amplifier from its output RCA jacks.

The other option you have is to select the RMX as your sound card and get a cable which has 2 RCA phono plugs on one end and a 1/8" (small size stereo jack socket on the other. Then plug your headphones into the jack socket on the RMX and your speakers into the addaptor cable.


Daz
 
Dazmax wrote :
Hi mate

In the setup try setting the sound card on your pc to output the master from front and the headphones from rear. then plug your headphones into the rear output jack on your pc.

The RMX is not designed to work this way it is intended to have its own sound card driving an amplifier from its output RCA jacks.

The other option you have is to select the RMX as your sound card and get a cable which has 2 RCA phono plugs on one end and a 1/8" (small size stereo jack socket on the other. Then plug your headphones into the jack socket on the RMX and your speakers into the addaptor cable.


Daz


In the setup try setting the sound card on your pc to output the master from front and the headphones from rear. then plug your headphones into the rear output jack on your pc.

This had no effect what so ever, both decks played though the head phones

The other option you have is to select the RMX as your sound card and get a cable which has 2 RCA phono plugs on one end and a 1/8" (small size stereo jack socket on the other. Then plug your headphones into the jack socket on the RMX and your speakers into the addaptor cable.

Select the Rmx as my sound card for VDj or the soundcard for my whole PC? I'll google what a "2 RCA Phono Plug" looks like lol but i don't understand where this will be plugged into, though would this option work?

Thanks
Dan
 
Dazmax wrote :
Hi mate

In the setup try setting the sound card on your pc to output the master from front and the headphones from rear. then plug your headphones into the rear output jack on your pc.

The RMX is not designed to work this way it is intended to have its own sound card driving an amplifier from its output RCA jacks.

The other option you have is to select the RMX as your sound card and get a cable which has 2 RCA phono plugs on one end and a 1/8" (small size stereo jack socket on the other. Then plug your headphones into the jack socket on the RMX and your speakers into the addaptor cable.

Daz


I have googled what a RCA cable looks like, if i bought one, would it go into "Output 1 - 2" (red and white sockets?)

The problem is now, my soundcard was designed for 5.1. It has 3 out of 4 jacks in use (Bass, Line In, Line Out??) But it needs all 3 cables in to produce 'Surround Sound'. Where would these two RCA cables go?

The sound card is Creative Sound Blaster, nothing special but bought it ages ago when i used to play alot of games to take strain off the computer.

This is VERY simular to my set up:



Thanks
 
Ok
Both decks played through the hedphones. Were you using the cue controls on the VDJ skin or on the RMX?

On the back of the RMX there are a pair of "connectors" for the audio output. These are called RCA or phono sockets. the plugs used for these are the same as is used to hook up most home hifi equipment.

Yes this will work. I am assuming your desktop speakers have a built in amplifier BTW.

Daz
 
Dazmax wrote :
Ok
Both decks played through the hedphones. Were you using the cue controls on the VDJ skin or on the RMX?

On the back of the RMX there are a pair of "connectors" for the audio output. These are called RCA or phono sockets. the plugs used for these are the same as is used to hook up most home hifi equipment.

Yes this will work. I am assuming your desktop speakers have a built in amplifier BTW.

Daz


I was using "Cue Select" on the RMX. Also playing around with the 'Mix and Cue' knob incase that dose something, the Volume for the headphones is up quite loud.

I believe my amplifier is in the Base Box. My speakers are "Philips PC400" Infact i'm 99% sure the amp is bult into the base box (Sub?) as there is a Base control to select how much base you'd like
 
May come in helpful?



I'm still stuck
 
How has everybody else got these set up?
 
Cool, that sound card gives you another option.

You can configure VDJ to use the RMX card and take the RMX output from its phono/RCA sockets and feed it back into the input socket (the top one i think) on your sound card. You will then have to set the creatives line input to on (you get at this setting through the creative cards mixer panel) and adjust the volume as required. This also saves you unplugging your speakers. The cable you will need will have the two RCA phono plugs (as before) and a 1/8' stereo jack plug at the other.

Dont set VDJ to use your internal card just the RMX and it should be fine.

Everone else who trys this has this issue as well I am trying to give you a solution to it.

With the system I mentioned before the sound would only have come from the front satalite speakers as your bass unit requires a separate feed.

BTW your speakers are connected to Bass front and rear line outs not the line in.

Good luck

Daz
 
Hi dannyboy2005

I\'m using an mk2 controller my confg. setting in VDJ are set as per the image below.
You do hear the two decks through your headphones at first, this is what I did to fix it.

1. Find your headphone selector to switch between Split, Mix, Deck A & Deck B.
2. Start playing one deck, you should hear it through your headphones.
3. Now select a file on your browser, right click and choose preview.
4. Start switching back and forth the headphone selector knob till it clears the deck music.
5. You should only hear the preview song playing and not the deck music.
6. Select Mix so you get the sound through both left & right phones from the preview.
7. If you get Pop\'s and cracking noises, go to confg. Performances Tab.
8. Select Latency under \"Sound Card\" and set it to 2048.
9. Check the box Overclock, then click OK to save your settings.

Let me know if this works for you.


Joey....
 
dannyboy2005 wrote :
How has everybody else got these set up?


Danny,

I have an RMX, but never use the laptop sound card - there's no need as the RMX has a much better one!!!

From the looks of your diagram you are using a home cimena surround sound system where the subwoofer powers the various speakers.

I'm guessing the subwoofer has a pair of phono's as inputs. Simply connect these to phono's 1&2 on the back of the RMX.

Plug your headphones in to either of the headphone sockets on the RMX - This will use the soundcard in the RMX to allow you to cue/mix.

Set VDJ to use the RMX only.

Cheers,

Roy
 
Hi GadgetMan

He is using two sound cards in his setup just like I do in mine.
I have an E-MU 1616m PCI sound card as my main and a MK2 as my headphone controller card and now it works after months of tinkering around with it.

He is probably happier with the sound quality of his internal sound card then he is with the RMX?

I know I am with Mine.

Joey....
 
JoeyKJ wrote :
Hi GadgetMan

He is using two sound cards in his setup just like I do in mine.
I have an E-MU 1616m PCI sound card as my main and a MK2 as my headphone controller card and now it works after months of tinkering around with it.

He is probably happier with the sound quality of his internal sound card then he is with the RMX?

I know I am with Mine.

Joey....


The point is... there is no need for a two sound card set up!!! The RMX was designed to by used standalone... Why do people make things so complicated....???

The RMX is a superb piece of kit and when set up correctly will give YEARS of service... I'm well in to my 2nd year and have used it - as it was inteded to be - since day one...

Please, please, please RTFM and set it up as it is meant to be...

Roy
 
If you want to use your headphone from your RMX, you need to use RMX Soundcard.
if you use asio or any other soundcard, the headphone doesn't work.
 
asio driver can't manage this, but two sound card system does work if you set it up correctly.

The reason for having the second card is a matter of choice in sound quality, That's why the option is built in You're VDJ.

Yes playing out of RMX or MK2 is easier if you are happy with the sound, but if you're not then at least you have the option and for that I thank the VDJ team for Developing that added feature.

Just like controllers there are sound cards, so thumbs up for the variety of choices in VDJ software.

Joey....
 
hi all

From the growing number of posts I have been reading on this the majority of people asking how is this done are uing desktop pc's and speaker systems. If this is what you want to do thats totaly fine but why buy the RMX? It was not designed to work this way so no one should be surprised when it causes problems trying.

Do your homework! make shure that the controller/whatever you get is going to do what you want.

BTW danny the method I suggested to you works but is a compromise. Its up to you because, as you see there are various ways of doing this.

Instead of trying to use the computers speakers (which lets face it are not always at the forefront of sound quality) how about looking at some of the superb powered nearfield monitors out there. plug em into the power supply and then into the RMX, how simple is that. Instead of all this messin about.

I don't think dannyboy is as interested in splitting hairs on the quality of sound cards as he is in just getting his setup to work at all.

Just some suggestions.

Daz
 
me to, save the brainache and use the gear the way it was intended...
 
tayla wrote :
me to, save the brainache and use the gear the way it was intended...


Nuff said...
 
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