Xone: K2 Thread

[fullenglishpint]

Who here has used a K2 with a DB4? What are your thoughts?

[andrejgoshev]

No while i pre-cue one track, but when i cue track to the monitor master it is

[V-Hoff]

is everyone happy with the volume output on the K2?

I've had it since june, didn't pay too much attention while playing out with it but at this point I think I just don't believe the output is sufficient at all, it's caused too many issues, especially when not having access to a master mixer and not doing soundcheck because of showing up at the club mid-event.

Having the gains on maximum on the mixer, and increasing the master output usually almost does the trick but not always... the channel levels are still half of vinyl and cdjs volumes

I use both outputs (Rca and front jack )and do external mixing, playing mostly house and techno.

I'm now considering getting another soundcard (like an NI Audio card for dvs) which really defeats the purpose of having bought this controller.

Any opinions/recommendations?

ps: this post sounds like a rant and perhaps it is, let me make it clear I find the levels usable but not "good enough".

Any news on this issue?
I really suffering from low volume, sometimes when the channel that the CDJ were playing has the gain over 50% I cant get not even close to the CDJ volume by turning my channel gain at the mixer to the max...
It's really a pain... who else has the same problem?

Also the topic at A&H forum is dead...
How can i get any help about this issue?
http://xoneforum.allen-heath.com/for...b-voulme-issue

[SJJVEN]

I hooked up my iphone 5 and my macbook pro straight to my mixer on 2 diff channels, and they were both louder then my k2!
I honestly think thats ridiculous... My macbook reads +3 on the xone92 while the k2 reads -10

[V-Hoff]

Yeah i feel you mate... what can we do about that?
I didn't try to contact A&H yet, should we do that?

[johndavid]

Yeah i feel you mate... what can we do about that?
I didn't try to contact A&H yet, should we do that?

honestly, I've just started pushing the gain in Traktor.
Here's how I proceed:
Deactivate the auto gain option,
Push the gain on the different channels (+5db, or till it's good enough, and the signal doesn't saturate), this changes over the course of the night and the overall level of the tracks but I will seldom touch the gains.
The "real" gain control is done through the external mixer (I mix externally 90% of the time).

All in all I have found the solution good enough, if used within reason, don't go pushing the gain all the way or you will be sorry

[V-Hoff]

But this is not a solution, its a workaround

We've payed, we should get a proper solution from A&H

[SJJVEN]

I'm going to email them this weekend regarding this issue. The main reason I bought the K2 was because of the built in sound card. I thought aggregating them would be awesome, other then the fact that they're so quiet...

I really don't feel like buying an audio 8/10 just because that would be another $300-500 ontop of my setup!

[V-Hoff]

Please update this topic when you do or when they answer...
Tell that there are other people that are facing the same issue

[NoizeuNit]

Hey guys, just got one of these bad boys after a long while of wanting to pick one up to see if i wanted to make the switch from my Kontrol X1, first impression i really like it, got a couple mappings that work for what i want it to do loaded them up and mixed for 30 min still liking it, but when i got around to trying to update the firmware to 2.0 (i believe its on 1.0 atm) it wont update, even tried doing the stairstep update 1.03 still nothing, i know its not rly needed as i dont have two or have a db4 ... yet, but i just want to get it up to date. anyone else have problems with this? i've search long and far on xoneblog, here and djf but nothing seems to be poppin' up with solutions i can try. i am on Mac, any help would be great


tl;dr - xone k2 wont update firmware on Mac, any solution?