I'v asked this before but nobody has answered me. I dj too.

I havn't tried this yet because my turntables were fixed and still wrapped up. I havn't set them up and decided to learn production instead. But I will try to give you a few ideas.

Note: Some product like MAGIX Samplitude 11.5 Producer might be better.

Do you have turntables and a mixer and an amp? Or do you have some sort of midi controller device?

What you need to do is get your amp or mixer connected to your PC and or laptop.

1. So you need to buy an audio interface that is firewire or usb2, or buy the right pci-e card for your computer. Then get Magix to recognize this and the input/incomming signal will appear on your tracks. I don't know how to do this since I do not do this method myself.

2. Get your amp or mixer connected to your computer via the line in or mic in ports on your sound card. There may be a few ways to get Magix to recognize your turntables or controller, I don't know how. I have Music Maker 11 Deluxe, so what I can do to record with a mic is: Go into File - Audio Recording, and then select what you want/need.

**Speakers are probably green, mic is probably pink, line-in is probably blue. I don't know what your computer looks like. You should see some sort or design if you look near them on the back of your computer.

**The back ports are probably going to get better sound into your computer than the front. But if you have a laptop or are stuck and very computer literate, just use the front mic-in port so your life is easier.

**Make sure you select the right input. If I had the mic or amp plugged in the back of my computer and selected the front mic input, I will hear nothing. So fiddle around and figure it out incase you need to know for the future too.

- What I noticed is that 1. Display volume control is good, sometimes I have to tap a microphone or hit record and stop then erase the recording for the volume control to work properly and move. 2. Turn off playback while recording, sometimes (usually for me) it gets recorded into the mix and everything gets messed up. This is why you can watch the volume control bouncing around to see it work. 3. Normalize after recording may be a good idea, or not, try both. I choose this with vocals. 4. When you press the advanced option: I check-mark on the "real-time resampling of projects sample rate", it works for me I don't know what you need. 5. When you press volume mix one of the windows audio options opens up. That is up to you to figure out what works, don't start turning on everything really high, or it won't work/record right, and make sure the right choice is selected.

Please remember I am using Music Maker 11 Deluxe and don't know what Music Maker 16 looks like. Someone else might help you better, but you need to kind of figure out what to do since you want to record. So look at the options before you do serious recording, don't save anything and close the program if you click the wrong box and don't know what you're doing.

- If all else fails, get your set-up connected into your computer with the line-in on your sound card. Go into Start menu - all Programs - Accessories - Entertainment - Sound Recorder. If you use the front mic input or select the right input you'll be fine and can then take the wav file and place it into Music Maker. Open Sound Recorder and click Edit - Audio Properties for that configuration.

- I don't know if you can get a program like Serato or Traktor to be recognized directly into Magix's Music Maker. I believe that is irrelevant, since the physical hardware needs to be connected into your computer or laptop. But since I am not currently using Serato or Traktor on a laptop, I cannot say how a laptop could simutaneously record from those programs into Music Maker, I would assume that the other products can record something, and you can then edit in Music Maker.

- When you are recording into your computer you may experience Latency or lagging and this will make your recording not record properly. There are many useful tutorials all over the net explaining how to deal with this. I can recommend some web-sites, but they are on competitors forums and I don't know how they will be taken being posted here. So, depending on what OS (XP, Vista, Win7, Mac, etc) you use, they are different for each.

- But when recording, 1. Try to not have anything else running on your computer and don't do anything else. 2. Disable anti-virus software or make sure it is not trying to update itself or run a scan when recording. 3. Get off the internet. 4. Turn off hibernate, screen savers, etc. You can set them to not start for a long time, but what is on will sap away at your resources.

I don't know what set-up you have, just make sure there is enough RAM and enough processor for what you are doing (slightly or highly better will allow Windows to do its thing and then give you enough room to do what you are doing).

Hope it helps.