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Serato & Traktor Stuttering / Stopping.

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  • January 12, 2015 at 7:34 pm #2119951
    M Evans
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    Also like to add that Replaying tracks that went mad later, would play fine. Cannot reproduce problem.

    January 12, 2015 at 8:35 pm #2120001
    DJ Vintage
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    I’d be leaning towards excluding the software from being the problem. Did you do your “I have done” list on both?

    What you wrote about Serato would have be thinking about latency first, but you say you fiddled with it. Not sure what fiddling means, but let’s say it’s not latency. Another thing that spring to mind would be USB (are you using a hub and if so, is it properly powered?). Another USB problem could be the cable (assuming that since the sound is going, it would be the cable running to the Z1). Did you try swapping cables out?

    Have you tried it with just the Z1 hooked up?

    Can you get/borrow/rent another Z1/F1 to exclude that it’s a hardware problem?

    Obviously I don’t have a direct answer as it’s not something I have come across before. Hopefully my suggestions give you a few other things to try.

    January 12, 2015 at 9:00 pm #2120051
    M Evans
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    Cables have been swapped, I tried with just the Z1. I even tried a Audio2DJ which I carry as a Spare. Plugged into the “good” USB Socket on MBP.

    Done the check list on both Serato and Traktor. Happens with both. And different Hardware. (Z1, X1, Audio2DJ and DDJ Wego). All updated firmwares.

    January 12, 2015 at 9:31 pm #2120091
    DJ Vintage
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    If you eliminate all the obvious things, the thing that remains – however unlikely – is probably the cause.

    I have had some similar problems once with an MBP and two Denon SC2900s, turned out it went wrong when I was playing venues with really bad power (we are @ 230V here and when we put a meter in I had it drop below 200V!). So that is something to check.

    Do you have the opportunity to try with another mbp?

    January 12, 2015 at 10:23 pm #2120271
    M Evans
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    I’ve had the opportunity to check with someone else’s Laptop (Windows) and my equipment – loaded my music onto it. Similar Results. This is what made me think it may have been the music, restored my music from Backup. Still happened. Re-encoded. Still happened.

    Other residents in same club do not have this problem.

    January 13, 2015 at 8:26 am #2120391
    DJ Vintage
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    So we can safely eliminate the laptop as a contributor. And the gear itself. Having tested with both Traktor AND Serato I think settings are out. Having tested with both Mac and PC the OS seems not to be at fault here.

    It is truely strange, as you seem to have eliminated most things.

    How frequent is it, it seems you are able to reproduce it pretty easily? Is it with all tracks. Do tracks play well and not well in the same set?

    January 13, 2015 at 5:26 pm #2120811
    M Evans
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    It happens regularly. Some nights can go by without it happening. Most nights it will happen 2/3 times. Ranging from a simple “stutter” which sounds like someone tapping a jog-wheel, to a complete garbled mess of noise, to what can be descried as CD skipping.

    Can be hours apart. If I replay the same tracks later, no issues. Its not happened on a track twice. It seems to be completely and utterly random.

    I have no been able to reproduce it at all.

    January 13, 2015 at 7:20 pm #2120881
    DJ Vintage
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    I am baffled, as you have been for some time now I imagine.

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