mr stifffy

mr stifffy, post: 5270 wrote: Antivirus takes up a lot of memory and a lot of them do stuff in the backround… It depends what you use your dj laptop for… In my case its pretty much: traktor, download music, check here, check djtt, check facebook then more traktor.

And for that I dont need antivirus.

Oo I also leave my wifi on, never really bothers me since cant get a connection in most places and has never affected my laptop.

If there is a factory overclock mode on your laptop, use it and also keep the charger plugged in if possible as some laptops speed up a bit whilst plugged in.

Kyle_G, post: 5264 wrote: I’ve actually done something very similar to this, where my friend would plug in an 1/4″ plug into his car and connect it to his Kontrol S4, you can DJ on the go!

Me and my mates used to do this quite a lot, with traktor 1 it took a lot of changing setting for audiocards (have a small usb one for travel) but now with traktor 2 out I have t1 setup specially for this with a simplified screen and keyboard mapping for full control.

Also used djay on the ipad a few times which worked nice 🙂

Id say its the latter then 🙂 lots of djs are using sd cards or usb drives and will have there collection either duplicated on these or have a cable linking the two (this works on the newish pioneer cdj2000’s), I know james zabelia is using this format and it looks like the way forward, there was an interview over on djtechtools where he was saying he fits his whole setlist for the night onto an sd card so it saves having to have cd wallets and then find the song he wants, just use the browser on the cdj.

But yes it would be a bit disapointing if they did the first suggestion of playing in order, I would only do this with not so common songs in case of a software or laptop fail, just so I can keep music playing in the backround :), either that or use djay on my ipad to mix untill im up and running 🙂

I had one for a while which I used alongside my numark omni control, it pretty much gave my control for everything the standard 2 deck controller didnt, I had it mapped for loop control, sample triggering, filters, and with a shift button fx macros that triggerd a few things at once. Only sold because I decided to use my dusty old mp3 e2 for the same purpose and needed the extra cash 🙂

Sometimes its good to not get new songs, you find stuff you wouldnt use before… Use old songs again and recycle stuff :),
Like emma said plan out what you want to say before you get internet to save time 🙂

Emma to answer your last question I am pretty sure these djs not changing cds are using premade cds created the way I do incase my lappy crashes 🙂 … Either a twin cds with all tracks or say track 1 3 5 7 9 on say cd 1 and 2 4 6 8 10 on cd 2

Or these people are using sd cards… Or even a hidden laptop 🙂

check the keylock is switched on aswell… ive heard of this being a problem for many people, and uping the buffer rate on your sound card might help aswell