Neil Dee

Hey thanks, I hope I have some luck with it when it returns (hopefully replaced). Suppose it’s a lesson, everybody is trying to make money and ripping people off is becoming more popular so by selling me the x demo model which could have been known to be faulty, works to their advantage. Next time I’ll pay the extra few quid and buy from a shop, although I’d have only known it was faulty beyond 28days of the receipt. All good tho, thanks for your feedback Phil 🙂

hey, thanks for this, I’ll give 2.03 a try! I’ll also keep an eye out for the new update, hopefully in the near future (fingers crossed, today) I’ll have it working to an acceptable standard. I was also thinking of adding a plastic/rubber ring to fit over the play buttons on the ergo. I think this will help the problem I sometimes have when doing heavy crossfading and accidentally hitting stop on a track whilst in a cross fading frenzy. Then, the only other thing I’m hoping is possible is to have a key on the keyboard or preferably an alternative button to skip – & + on the pitch as you might know, it gets terribly frustrating at times getting the pitch to sync correctly during a mix (the sync button isn’t trusty unless you haven’t faded!) Cheers for the heads up on this one, it’ll be great to get going properly with this thing 🙂

Cheers Phil (great site this btw!). My 4gb Ram, i5 vaio is here, but battery only lasts 3 hours, if that. So, I’m going to return it and pay a little more for a Mac, for better battery life running the Ergo live (avoiding power cables). Only running traktor pro 2 so I’d hope I would’nt need such beast of a machine to run it, hopefully a slim i3/i5 macbook pro will do the job.

Hey cheers for that.
I’ve had a little change of heart with Mac and thinking of sticking to my instinct.
I’m looking at getting a viao instead after speaking to friends but want to be sure that other DJ’s have used non-Mac laptops that have never crashed or had a problem, when using it only for DJ’ing with.
It’d be good to assure myself with opinions of non-Mac using DJ’s that have never had a problem playing out live with their laptops using midi devices.
I was drawn towards Mac because many people say they are the most reliable laptops for the job. It’s a trustable brand that DJ’s will follow to assure themselves on reliability, but since the laptop will only be doing only two tasks;
DJ’in using traktor
VJ’in on VDJ for disco’s (very rare occasion)
I would imagine that a Sony Viao would be a better option, as I’d have to spend over a grand to get a good enough Mac. I’ll be paying for assurance of quality on a Mac when viao is probably just as reliable, although viao just hasn’t gained the reputation Mac currently has. I know the operating system is the main reason for this, but I hear that windows 7 is reliable in this context but would just like some more assurance before I go out and spend.

A new laptop is kind of like choosing a wife, u gotta find the right one before you commit!(My god that sounds cheesy as owt! I probably should have erased that bit, ah sack it!)

So yeah, I’m back between the Mac and the Viao after hearing good things about them, any comments/advice is more than welcome 🙂