Weird s4/pro2 problem

[tekki]

Really didn't understand what was going on. We just upped it to 126 and went on from there.

[kooper1980]

and you never figured out why it happened? hmmmm the plot thickens!!

[tekki]

Nope, it's just this one occasion that I can think of when it happened.
Only thing I can think of, is the current version of TP2 I'm running, as I haven't had that happen to me with the older versions.

[kooper1980]

Weird. Happened again this morning. Had a 10 minute fiddle and within the first minute and a half it jumped from 127 to 125.13!! My OCD hates unrounded bpm's!! Def gonna give it a fresh install.

[kooper1980]

Ok so I uninstalled Traktor, downloaded the pro2 demo and activated with my product key. Less than 30 seconds into my first track and the bpm drops MASSIVELY!! 127 down to 112.

Trying to get my head around whether this is software or hardware driven. Could this potential be caused by the s4 or would you say it's a Traktor problem? Either way I've logged a ticket with NI support. It's totally knocked my confidence in my gear. I just don't trust it!!

[Topps]

I've had a similar thing happen but when I reset my traktor via the wizard setup it seemed to go back to normal

[kooper1980]

Did you completely uninstall?

[smiTTTen]

Do you have any other midi devices hooked up and are any of them set to ALL PORTS for the Out-Port? I was doing some stuff with the midifighter the other night and was noticing some very odd behavior. My MF Out-port was set to all ports. When I changed that back to MF the behavior stopped.... Other than that, has your mapping for the S4 gotten fudged up somehow? I am probably totally off the mark but it will only take a few seconds to check.

[kooper1980]

It's funny you say that cos I've recently started using my midi-fighter again. Plus even though I've gone through a fresh install I'm still using the same mapping so i'll import a fresh s4 default mapping without my midi-fighter and see how that works out. Never occurred to me that it may be a mapping issue so thanks for that.

[kooper1980]

ok i deleted all mappings and imported thee default s4 mapping. All went well for half an hour then same thing happened again. Also recalibrated the faders but no joy.

Ive realised now that it only actually happens on deck B. another thing ive noticed is that when i load Traktor with the S4 connected the tempo fader on deck B shows as being all the way to the top of the range like this:
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even though the fader on the S4 is in the centre position. However when i start Traktor without the S4 connected the fader in the software remains in the centre position.

This must mean its a hardware problem surely?!