Audio 2 DJ "crackling noises"

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Audio 2 DJ “crackling noises”

Lately, while running my VCI-100SE on Traktor Pro, I’ve noticed its crackling quite a bit, and even when I watch youtube videos. Usually I just unplug and plug the sound card back in and its fine, but if i’m on Traktor Pro I shouldn’t really do that.

I’m using a laptop that doesn’t have a CD drive, so when I got my audio 2 dj sound card, I just plugged and played. I went to the “update drivers” and it says a newer driver hasn’t been found… is there a way to fix this?

Thanks!

*not to mention that, whenever i press the shift button and juggle 1-4 buttons, the noises happnen.

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Sounds like you need to turn the latency up a bit.

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should i do so via traktor, or in my computer’s hardware>sound panel?

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You can do it through traktor. remember the goal is to get the latency to below 10ms (considered “real time”) but just do some experiments to see what works best.

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+1. In terms of drivers, go to the Native Instruments website and make sure yours is the newest version. I had hotplugging and crackling issues with my Audio 8 but the new driver fixed it.

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Yep. I’ve not long had my audio 4 and got new drivers straight away. Runs fine at 5ms but i use 9.5 just to be on the safe side. Crackles are embarassing!

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thanks
how about this mysterious thing called ‘sample rate’

edit!!!

i just set it to 11.5 and i still get cracks when i press shift and the juggle 1-4, 5-8 buttons

here is a picture:

http://b.imagehost.org/view/0681/crack

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leave it at 44.1

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Sample rate, measured in Hz is basically the number of bits of Audio information per second, so the higher the number the better the quality in theory. However that also pushes up the latency because there’s more information to transfer so as Jester said, leave it at 44,100. A few people use 96,000 but that’s production quality and unnecessary for DJs.

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hmm that seems kind of like bitrate, are they the same?

i just included a picture in my previous post of my settings with the audio in traktor, i am still getting the cracks. : (

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11.5 is obviously too low then. start it at 20 and work backwards.

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That makes sense, but I’d be surprised if an Audio 2 can’t handle 11.5ms. Are you absolutely sure the Driver is up to date? The only time I’ve found crackling unrelated to Latency is with driver problems my friend had when using the built in drivers for a Numark Omni Control with windows, this was ficed by using ASIO drivers.

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A lots also depends on his system mate. sunmoon, just pointing out some obvious stuff here but you need to turn off some services like your wireless if you have that. all these little things add up and can cause lag with your sound. i would recommend a little free app called “gamebooster” its magic. just boot that up before you load up traktor and you are ean golden.

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def. turn off the wireless, that’s what casued some pops when i switched to a laptop from my home pc…

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wifi, bluetooth, antivirus, and anything else that might be running in the background needs to be turned off. And you can double check your driver here, http://co.native-instruments.com/index.php?id=freeupdates#Audio_2_DJ

Might not hurt to just go ahead and install it since you never did install the driver and your probably running on a generic windows driver.

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thanks for the heads up on the app…

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This could be a problem with the way window’s handles the “Send Monitor State” command.
I have been working on an app to fix this problem, and it’s in the final stages of beta.
Feel free to check it out here…

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44.1khz - definately a latency issue, go as low as you can till you can hear no cracks and then go a little higher again,

should eliminate the problem

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Hey guys i have the Same Problem. Befor i had the m Audio audiophil and there was in the control panel an independent Poti for adjusting the latency. But now i am using for a Moment the Audio 2 Dj and here you just can adjust the samplerate. Die anybody found a solution here? Wouldt be nice to hear greetings crashzkitt

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Traktor preferences > audio settings > latency.

it’s right under sample rate man.