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Can i play music from my iPhone Through a mixtrack pro?

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  • June 30, 2011 at 12:17 am #1796
    Adam Sharizman
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    I don’t think you can. I’ve never tried but you can still access playlists in virtualdj. I access itunes playlist through virtualdj. Theoretically, if I connected my phone, it should detect my playlists on my phone, no?

    But if you’re thinking the way the Mixdeck does, I’m not sure if it’d work.

    June 30, 2011 at 5:05 am #1866
    jezalenko
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    Tony – having your iPhone routing through your Mixtrack in the event of a computer failure is useless.

    The way the Mixtrack Pro works is it sends audio from the mic input through the software, and back into the outputs. If your computer were to crash, this connection would be severed, rendering your Mixtrack a fancy paperweight. Put simply, the Mixtrack is useless with out a working laptop.

    As far as using a DJ app on your phone, forget about it, you can’t DJ properly on an iPhone anyway. What I would recomend instead is record a 15-30 mins mixtape of you playing a set, and have that ready to go on your iPhone instead, as this leaves you to fix whatever the problem was in the first place, not attempt to mix on a 2″ touchscreen.

    As far as leads go, you’ll need a 1/8″ (3.5mm) to RCA stereo lead to plug your iPhone (1/8″) to the house mixer (RCA).

    June 30, 2011 at 7:04 am #1884
    16877elvis
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    Hi Adam and Jezalenko
    Thanks for your comments.
    Jezalenko you say a 1/8″ lead to a house mixer, is this just a normal
    Single ended lead?

    Many thanks

    June 30, 2011 at 7:12 am #1000667
    jezalenko
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    Single ended lead? I’m not sure what you mean there, but if you walk into your local music store and ask for a 1/8″ to RCA stereo lead they’ll know what you’re talking about.

    (I mean one of these: http://www.amazon.com/3-5mm-Mini-Plug-Computer-Stereo/dp/B000FEHO0U)

    June 30, 2011 at 8:07 am #1900
    16877elvis
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    Cheers Jezalenko

    June 30, 2011 at 8:12 am #1902
    16877elvis
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    Thought there was a lead I could connect with a USB end
    To my iPhone and plug straight inti my mixtrack pro

    July 1, 2011 at 4:16 am #2183
    jezalenko
    Member

    Nup, that kinda lead cant exist, because USB is digital (1’s & 0’s) and regular audio is analouge (signal peaks with sound levels).

    So if you plugged USB into, say, a mic input, all you’ll hear is a hum, where as you could damage a usb port with analouge signals…

    July 1, 2011 at 9:25 pm #2338
    16877elvis
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    Thanks for the info

    July 1, 2011 at 9:49 pm #2341
    16877elvis
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    Hi Jezalenko
    You said to get 1/8″(3.5mm) stereo lead and connect to my iphone via my mixer.
    I’ve just purchased a numark mixtrack pro and it only has 2 channels
    And the computer plugs into it via a Computer 5m USB cable V2.0 plug [TYPE A] to USB plug [TYPE B] [BLACK] see link….http://www.amazon.co.uk/ComputerGear-cable-V2-0-plug-BLACK/dp/B0013FPS3K/ref=cm_cmu_up_add_glance
    How do I connect the stereo lead to the mixer?

    July 2, 2011 at 4:25 am #2387
    jezalenko
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    jezalenko, post: 1855 wrote: Having your iPhone routing through your Mixtrack in the event of a computer failure is useless.

    The way the Mixtrack Pro works is it sends audio from the mic input through the software, and back into the outputs. If your computer were to crash, this connection would be severed, rendering your Mixtrack a fancy paperweight. Put simply, the Mixtrack is useless with out a working laptop.

    As far as leads go, you’ll need a 1/8″ (3.5mm) to RCA stereo lead to plug your iPhone (1/8″) to the house mixer (RCA).

    Ok, as mentioned above, you want to use the iPhone as a backup in case your computer crashes. So, if your computer crashes, your Mixtrack is useless!!! Despite the name, the Mixtrack is not a mixer!!!

    As the Mixtrack only has RCA outputs, you cannot easily connect speakers (which typically have XLR/TRS inputs) to your Mixtrack. Therefore the best way to connect speakers is via a conventional mixer. As your Mixtrack would become redundant when the computer crashes, you would connect your iPhone to the conventional mixer, not the Mixtrack!

    You would plug it into one the the line inputs shown here on the house mixer

    So computer crashes, Mix track freezes as a result, and you have your iPhone connected ready to go – all you need to do is hit play and bring up the particular channel on the mixer. Music keeps playing, leaving you time to fix the problems.

    July 2, 2011 at 8:25 am #2398
    16877elvis
    Participant

    Thank Jezalenko just one more question, the mixtrack
    Has a sound card in so the music from the iPhone won’t
    Be going through a sound card would this sound ok or would
    I need to use a sound card?

    Cheers

    July 2, 2011 at 10:05 am #1000793
    U31
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    The output from the ipod will be line level so the house mixer will handle it just fine..

    July 2, 2011 at 12:30 pm #1000794
    Benny Mackney
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    U31, post: 2398 wrote: The output from the ipod will be line level so the house mixer will handle it just fine..

    I have a feeling that iPods and iPhones put out significantly more than line-level, so that they “drive” the earphones/headphones (because consumers like ear-damaging volumes). That said, the extent my testing is comparing the maximum volume of a friend’s iPod through my headphones to the maximum volume of my phone through the same headphones. I just compared my phone to my laptop using the same headphones and my phone is only very slightly louder. iPods seem to be able to push out a LOT more noise than my laptop or my phone can.

    Can somebody with an iPod and a proper hardware mixer test this for us?

    July 2, 2011 at 5:57 pm #1000805
    16877elvis
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    Cheers u31
    Nice one Benny

    July 3, 2011 at 4:16 am #2567
    Benny Mackney
    Member

    Haha 🙂 I’m just saying that if you plug an iPod into a club mixer it’s probably a very bad idea to turn the iPod all the way up, unless you’re playing to an audience that likes clipping.

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