Neil Dee

henley, post: 43973, member: 8952 wrote: Usually the retailer you purchased it from would be the first point of call.

Thanks for your response. The retailer sold me what I think was a re-conditioned S4, which may not be under warranty. To find this out, the serial number is usually verified with the manufacture to confirm warranty. I bought it from the retailer well over a year ago and it’s difficult to find contact for them, so I’ll have to do some paper chasing to gain their details as it was all an online deal following a faulty DDJ Ergo which proved to be a waste of time. So due to previous dealings with the retailer I doubt they would be able to help – although I will contact them to see what they know, since I’ve had no luck so far and struggling to find a procedure to move on with.
Just seeing if anyone else has had a similar issue with hardware on NI instruments and if anybody can shed any light onto this issue.

Hey thanks for this!

I’ve not had chance to look into this yet but thought I’d thank you for suggesting these. I had a quick glimpse and it looks like a decent plan – light weight & durable, perhaps I could dappa up the box with some spray paint and make it look decent too 🙂

I’ll check these out later on if I have chance:

Pelican Case
Light weight flight case,
Storm iM2700
Pelican 1600
Pelican 1560 lfc

🙂

Cheers. This idea is mainly for portability, as I’ll be travelling long distances on public transport. It has to be as durable as possible also, for the event of a drop, kick or idiot standing on it along with having it put in the hold on gigs abroad. I don’t fly out often but have a gig in germany this year so my idea is having something equally if not as near as possible as durable as a flight case which can be transported comfortably enough to get about with. Long distances with my vinyl box have nearly broke my back, even with wheels and the shock you’d get from putting a traktor flightcase on wheels could damage components and the hard drive of my laptop.
Ideally a flight case would be great but I can’t see myself carrying it far and last year at Fusion fest we travelled 2 hours on public transport to get to the nearest location we could be for our lift to the event. Tour buses are out of the equation for me unfortunately so I get about on public transport.
My ideas are still forming though, when I have a constructed plan I’ll let you know how I get on

Hey cheers! Whoalla, I used tag & rename to batch tag all files and I’m onto a winner! Now to tag my DNB collection and get on the road again 🙂 So much better using traktor/digital methods than CDs at events taking requests (weddings/functions) it means you have bags of time to stay relaxed enough/approachable for people wanting to take requests, who may book u based on yr attitude/performance on the night. CDs have left a leeway of about less than a minute to interact before it’s vital to have a track loaded ready for play. It was great and so much more flexible to search for tracks at yr finger tips – I love it when stuff works!
thanks for yr input mate, very helpful 🙂

Cheers for the tips guys, really helpful. I agree too, this forum walks all over NI!

I managed to get round syncing ok and beat gridded a track that wouldn’t play at the right speed and by shifting the markers for a while it’s turned out well. Pre-setting beat grids beforehand would be great and I’d blitz my whole collection if I could confidently use sync, but till then, I need to get going with it so I’m using tempo only, phasing any adjustments myself on the fly and doubling tempos when needed.

What I really need to know how to do, is set it so that every track is automatically set to the same tempo as master/previous track as soon as it’s loaded, to save having to press sync, then play, then pause, then cue and sync again (to take sync off), which is the only way I know how to make the speed identical to the last track, without having sync prevent me from beat matching the track on the fly.

If you know what I may be doing wrong, or need to do it’d be great to know.

Cheers fella,

Neil

http://www.mix.dj/neild

Cheers pal, I shall do so straight away! Thanks for the heads up 🙂

Yeah, cheers for your feedback. I have two watchers at the mo. Maybe if I include a picture of the email from native instruments confirming it to be activated it would gain them more confidence? Hmm, I originally got it off ebay second hand so there’s gotta be someone else out there wanting it, saying that tho, I am a rare kind! Some guys are selling it blatantly as a pirate, no idea where they got the balls/stupidity to do that! Fingers crossed anyway, maybe a private sale thru a mate might work – come on facebookers!

It’s dropped down to 58 quid! Buy it on ebay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Traktor-Pro-2-Full-Version-unlimited-upgrades-to-all-future-updates-/120931430325?pt=UK_Sound_Vision_Digital_Vinyl_Systems&hash=item1c28132fb5