S4 ruined my gig last night. Help.

[SlayForMoney]

I would never consider a midi controller made out of plastic, w/o XLR outputs and standalone capability a PRO unit
...no matter what the manufacturer claims or what DJ's are paid to use it.

[dros]

If only the VCI-400 was Traktor Scratch certified, I would have no hesitation... Still got my VCI-100 as backup unit BTW...

[geminimech]

I would never consider a midi controller made out of plastic, w/o XLR outputs and standalone capability a PRO unit
...no matter what the manufacturer claims or what DJ's are paid to use it.

But ~$1800/per plastic cd players, with shoddy usb connectors are okay?

[smiTTTen]

Couple of things:

1. Did you check the windows event logs to see if anything was logged?
2, Did you change the USB setup i.e. use one hub at home, use a different hub or no hub at the gig? Did
3. Did you use the PSU in the club?
4. Any mapped network drives or other networked based connections set up on the laptop?

[Steve Zorilow]

But ~$1800/per plastic cd players, with shoddy usb connectors are okay?

[jeffolivarri]

jeffolivarri, guitar center just let you swap them out just like that?
wow they are usually pretty anal and they rush you to 'send it in for repair'
did you have a warranty plan or something set up or you have a secret handshake, just curious how were you able to pull this off?

PS. Im glad you were able to get a replacement, I am on the look out for issues as I am purchasing an S4 this week, and found it for a great deal online, but GuitarCenter also had a sale so I am debating my options

Thanks

It's GCs policy that if the return is within 30 days its no questions asked if you are swapping for the same model. I just did an exchange. I only had it a little over a week at that point.

[Stewe]

I've seen this issue before with dell laptop, behringer unit and TP1.

[mmullen68]

+1
apparently SlayforMoney (cute name ) only spins on 100% certified steal. He refuses to shoot glocks too, ewwww plastic. Jesus people just accept the fact that not everyone likes to do things your way....and sometimes that means they're gonna be better than you at something. gear doesn't matter as long as the party is slammin. Cant wait till the diamond encrusted cdj-15,000s come out tho, I should definitly get a world tour with those in my flight case.

[beaubryte]

Back to solving problems: Did you try process hacker / DPC lat, just to check out what windows is doing??
Maybe ACPI is messing things up? I dunno, just trying to help.

http://www.native-instruments.com/knowledge/questions/847/__print9

help on acpi disabling:
http://forums.presonus.com/posts/list/3535.page

[kresnik]

Just like @smitten, I assume the problem might be:

-the USB outputs of your laptop (my laptop only has one USB output which provides enough power to my Audio 6, others can't handle it),
or-
-your S4 couldn't get enough power. Try to plug the S4 into a separate power strip (or wall outlet) than the other electronics.