Using VDJ directly from an external hard-drive, I've found to be extremelly unreliable! And either skips or crashes. But use music on the internal HD an it's fine.
How do people find this with Traktor?
Using VDJ directly from an external hard-drive, I've found to be extremelly unreliable! And either skips or crashes. But use music on the internal HD an it's fine.
How do people find this with Traktor?
- 2011 13" MBP | Akai LPD8 | KRK MP5's | iPhone 4 TouchOSC Custom Map -- Traktor Duo 2 | Traktor Kontrol X1 | NI Audio 2 -
Sounds like you might have a power issue to me. I have run both vdj and traktor, and I have always mixed straight off of the external HDD. My HDD came with a USB chord that had 2 male ends, one for power, one for backup power. If I had both plugged, no issues. But if I had only 1 end plugged in, or a regular usb chord, SOMETIMES I had issues. Did your HDD have a chord like this?
No, it didn't have a separate power supply lead.
However, I was running it to a desktop :-/ so I wouldn't have thought it mattered.
- 2011 13" MBP | Akai LPD8 | KRK MP5's | iPhone 4 TouchOSC Custom Map -- Traktor Duo 2 | Traktor Kontrol X1 | NI Audio 2 -
I run to a desktop too. Maybe try a new USB chord. They can only pass so much information through them before issues start popping up. Most people don't know that, I didn't until I started working where I do. The software load department switches out USB chords every other day, because they start getting errors after the second day due to the load on the chord.
Ahhhhh, i did not have a clue about that!
I'll give that ago and see how it runs.
The main reason I need to know is that we are DJ'ing an 18th next saturday and we are going to use my MPB instead of the Desktop that has all our music on it (12,000 songs (top40, old dads dancing albums for weddings you know the score). So we need this to be reliable.
Cheers
- 2011 13" MBP | Akai LPD8 | KRK MP5's | iPhone 4 TouchOSC Custom Map -- Traktor Duo 2 | Traktor Kontrol X1 | NI Audio 2 -
I use a powered hhd and have never had issues like that. That being said, I'm much more comfortable with all the tunes I need on my laptop.
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yeh. i use a powered usb external drive as well, no issues w/ traktor.
I would never DJ off a hard drive that wasn't powered.
Sorted then.
I'll go invest in a 2Tb Western Digital powered HDD tomorrow then
Thanks for the advice
- 2011 13" MBP | Akai LPD8 | KRK MP5's | iPhone 4 TouchOSC Custom Map -- Traktor Duo 2 | Traktor Kontrol X1 | NI Audio 2 -
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