Ok guys, bare with me here... So I have owned Traktor Scratch Pro for about three years now, and it has been an overall pleasant experience. Except, however, for the past month. Recently, i was running Traktor SP2 with the Audio 10 Interface, using a vestax mixer and a kontrol x1 controller. With this setup, traktor ran flawlessly with no audio dropouts or pops, and no glitches or freezing. I plugged my audio 10 into my usb 3.0 port on my laptop (HP Envy 4 Beats Edition) and as mentioned above, had no problems. Now here is where we get into my current problem. I purchased a NI Kontrol Z2 mixer about 2 weeks ago, and ever since then I have been having nothing but problems. My load meter is constantly over half, with spikes into red. I am getting audio pops and crackles, and even complete audio drop outs (waveform goes all blurry and then traktor completly freezes). It will also randomly restart the song being played, which is obviously a huge vibe killer. I have read numerous forums, manuals, etc. trying to solve my problems but i am not getting anywheres. I have tried lowering my latency and usb buffer, shutting off wifi and bluetooth, running windows in the "Classic" theme, taking my computer out of power saving mode, installing ALL new updates for windows, traktor, and my laptop, enabling multicore processor support in Traktor, with still no difference. (I also do not have any security/anti-malware software installed on my computer). I am at a dead end. Last night at my gig, traktor froze once, restarted my song twice, and had audio pops all night. I HAVE to fix this... Does anyone have any tips or methods to solve these problems? Its getting to the point where traktor is basically unusable. Oh, and I also plug the Z2 into my USB 3.0 port... I have tried plugging it into other ports but again no difference. My Z2 is the only thing plugged into my laptop whenever i DJ. Thanks for your time guys, I Appreciate it!
-Laptop Specs:
HP Envy 4 (Beats Audio Edition)
Windows 7 Premium (x64)
Intel(R) USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller
Intel(R) USB 3.0 Root Hub
-Processor:
1.70 gigahertz Intel Core i5-3317U
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
256 kilobyte secondary memory cache
3072 kilobyte tertiary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (2 total)
Hyper-threaded (4 total)
-Drives:
499.79 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
359.29 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
-RAM:
8gb Usable Installed Memory
-Multimedia:
CyberLink WebCam Virtual Driver
IDT High Definition Audio CODEC
Intel(R) Display Audio
-Display:
Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000 [Display adapter]
....If anything else is needed, let me know!
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