Hooking Up Monitors Through DJ Mixer Vs. Audio Interface

[Sheff]

So basically my monitors monitors are connected to my Pioneer DJM 700 so whenever i connect them to my computer, i just use an aux cable from an empty channel on the mixer into my Imac

I get quite a bit of background noise coming through, but my question is how much of a difference does an audio interface make?

[Sheff]

halp

[Benji]

I use a Line 6 interface for my monitors and had a lot of noise issues but it turned out that I hadn't set my buffer size high enough

[blinx]

Audio Interface should make HUGE difference and cut down on most the "noise" that gets picked up by an internal soundcard.

I always run my monitors out from my mixer, i do have monitor out's on the AI but it has a silly HPF on so NO BASS ahAHhahahHAh drove me nuts until i figured that crap out. Actually played my first show all through the HPF so much bass got missed out on that night lol.

[AxeD]

The problems is the low quality converters in your mac.

I use an usb interface connected to a 2-channel mixer.