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Are Serato making bad choices with Serato DJ?

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  • October 2, 2013 at 6:57 pm #44918
    DJ Vintage
    Moderator

    I don’t think instability of DJ software is “complaining”, I believe it’s the first and foremost feature of the software. It’s our work tool, we make money with it. It HAS to work. Not often, not most of the time, but ALWAYS!

    If software crashes on me twice, I’ll give it a test run on another machine. Same problem? Software out the door.

    Greetinx,
    C.

    October 7, 2013 at 2:27 am #44992
    Daryl Northrop
    Participant

    Same old problem with any software. They make money by selling it, not by fixing it. Frankly, I’m in no hurry to upgrade from serato Itch 2.2 to Serato DJ for my Twitch controller. I’ve been through too many “upgrades” in the business world that are actually “come to a complete halt while everything breaks even though it worked perfectly while the programmers were ‘testing’ it.”

    October 7, 2013 at 7:50 am #45000
    Terry_42
    Keymaster

    Honestly, I think 90% of the problems are user generated by installing crappy things on their windows laptops that can barely handle the software.
    Since 1.2 I have had ZERO problems with Serato DJ on all my Macs and with 3 different controllers. Every new version unlocked some new cool features and now even the slicer works with the TM4. I think Serato is hands down an awesome piece of software now and solid as a rock.

    October 7, 2013 at 3:52 pm #45012
    Robbe Michiels
    Member

    Terry_42, post: 45157, member: 1843 wrote: Honestly, I think 90% of the problems are user generated by installing crappy things on their windows laptops that can barely handle the software.
    Since 1.2 I have had ZERO problems with Serato DJ on all my Macs and with 3 different controllers. Every new version unlocked some new cool features and now even the slicer works with the TM4. I think Serato is hands down an awesome piece of software now and solid as a rock.

    Have you tried it on windows as well? Because if you’d treat your windows as a mac, keep it real clean, and still have issues, i don’t think you can put all the blame on the OS. Could it be that Serato’s just more ‘optimized’ for Mac?
    (I’m asking you because i don’t have serato and have regular pc-trouble thus can’t be really objective on this matter.)

    October 8, 2013 at 8:34 am #45046
    Terry_42
    Keymaster

    I do not treat my mac like that. My DJ macs have tons of software, photo albums and what not on them. I have zero stability issues.

    I have tried Serato on several newly installed windows laptops from my company. Did not have a problem specific to Serato. Most problems were with bad ASIO drivers or other Windows drivers conflicting with those drivers… so yes I do blame the operating system for needing those drivers in the first place. I have never installed a driver in my life on my macs, I just plug in controllers and they work.

    October 9, 2013 at 3:29 am #45083
    Edgard Rivera
    Participant

    Terry_42, post: 45157, member: 1843 wrote: Honestly, I think 90% of the problems are user generated by installing crappy things on their windows laptops that can barely handle the software.

    Sorry but it ain’t true,ASUS gamer G73 8 ram, nothing but the DJ’s software installed never had a problem with Traktor prior to switching to Serato Itch almost 2 year ago and with Serato until 1.2 then HELL. Software freeze all the time, which make me go back to Traktor. Now since 1.5 came out I been doing practice 2 to 3 hour a day so far no crashes.
    By the I use TMX4 and NS6 for Serato.

    October 9, 2013 at 8:58 am #45096
    Terry_42
    Keymaster

    There you go, your problem right there:
    TMX4 and NS6 need 2 different ASIO drivers, which can conflict easily.

    October 9, 2013 at 9:22 pm #45112
    Edgard Rivera
    Participant

    Terry_42, post: 45253, member: 1843 wrote: There you go, your problem right there:
    TMX4 and NS6 need 2 different ASIO drivers, which can conflict easily.

    I don’t think u read the whole paragraph

    October 10, 2013 at 6:36 am #45127
    Terry_42
    Keymaster

    Indeed I did and there is a reason this conflict does not concern Traktor, but I will not get into more detail publicly.

    October 16, 2013 at 6:14 pm #1014493
    Dj Emazing
    Participant

    Terry 42 is absolutely right, I used to have problems with serato dj until I found out it was my wireless mouse that was causing the problem. If you use serato the only thing it will allow you to use is a harddrive/flashdrive and a controller via USB Port. At least that was my problem, I’ve haven’t had any issues since and it works like a beast. Still waiting for them to fix video of Window Users.

    October 16, 2013 at 10:50 pm #1014510
    Alex Moschopoulos
    Participant

    I agree with Terry. I have my nice, new Thinkpad to use…and while I do put my design software on it, I keep bloat off.

    In the end with Serato though, I’m sure right now there are “suits” pushing them to put more stuff out to sell over fixing bugs. Such is the life of many companies out there. 🙁

    October 17, 2013 at 11:01 am #1014558
    Terry_42
    Keymaster

    I guess so, but with new slicer mode for more controllers, all the shiny new F/X and the overall tightness of jog controll I pretty much love Serato 1.5 now…
    It is finally something I can get along with comfy and not have to look around other DJ software consistently…

    July 15, 2014 at 10:59 am #2043327
    DVJ Rick Kraft
    Participant

    Using Serato DJ 1.6.3 currently with an SL4, Dicers, Pioneer DDJ-SP1 and Technics turntables, and apart from a solitary random Video crash that didn’t stop music playing, seems very stable. For Windows users, you need to turn off all other services as bad/poorly written drivers can cause DPC latency. For me, the culprit was Windows Update, I also removed a lot of Vaio Care products from my new notebook. Runs very well! System stats for the curious:
    SONY VAIO Fit 15E SVF15329CW/W with 4th gen i5-4200U dual core/4 thread @ 1.60GHz(Turbo 2.60GHz)
    Windows 8.1 64 bit / 8 GB DDR3L SDRAM / NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M 2 GB DDR3
    Hitachi 1TB HDD / 15.5″ LED Full HD Touchscreen (1920×1080) / USB x 4, HDMI x 1

    July 15, 2014 at 12:34 pm #2043343
    Marco Solo
    Participant

    I don’t like Serato that much, but I have to admit that it’s the most reliable dj software I’ve used. I’m on windows 7 btw on a pretty old laptop (HP Elitebook 8530w). I’ve had crashes with Cross regularly in the latest version and a few (just 4 or so over a whole year, but still) with Traktor. None whatsoever with Serato. All functions work as expected on my controllers as well. I know about a bug in the DDJ-SZ but that has been taken care of as well and was not the fault of Serato.

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