Audio 4 DJ drivers are rubbish

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Audio 4 DJ drivers are rubbish

Everybody I need your help!

I just bought a NI Audio 4 DJ soundcard. I used to use a Maya 44 USB soundcard, and it was great until I started playing in bigger clubs. I needed an upgrade, and I love NI.

But when I hooked it up and set up the 2.0.13 drivers for Windows, I got crackles all the time when using Traktor Pro. I used to get 5.5ms latency with no problems with my Maya, but even at 50ms I was getting bad sound with the Audio 4 DJ! After freaking out about how to order better cables to South Korea in time for next Saturday, I tried the ASIO4ALL drivers, and they work perfectly. Problem solved.

I would prefer to use NI drivers though. Does anybody know what the problem could be? I’ve tried replacement cables (not great, but with ferrite attachments). Any help is really appreciated. Thanks!

Migs.

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Myn does it on the windows drivers but it’s perfect on my gfs mac with the newest mac driver :s

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Yeah a lot of people have said that on the forum. Strange that it makes such a difference, and that is so different between the two drivers too! Do you play out with it on Windows? Are the ASIO4ALL drivers to be trusted?

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Can you confirm it works perfect all the time? OSX 10.6.6 or 10.6.7?

Also what latency do you get?

Thanks :slight_smile:

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New beta drivers for the A4 available from the Updates page at NI support site might help.

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I would avoid beta drivers for doing gigs, maybe for test purposes..

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Why on earth are you using 2.0.13 drivers???

2.9.4 drivers are the latest “release” drivers.

This driver has known issues.

2.9.8 drivers are the latest “beta release” drivers.

There is not much known about these drivers as they were just released.

2.0.15 are the BEST known drivers for Windows.

If you are running windows, and experiencing ANY type of audio issues, get yourself the “2.0.15” drivers for windows, and use those.

Please post back with an update after testing the 2.0.15 driver.

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I agree. Its easy to roll drivers back though.

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Really? I’ve never had any issues with mine on any of the drivers.

Only issue I do have with the audio 4 is that I have absolutely no idea how to turn off the phono pre-amps when using it in linux.

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+1 on the 2.0.15 windows drivers guys. Went back to this version myself as had nothing but trouble with the 2.9.4 versions.

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Yeah, I like the idea, embedded error checking, built in DPC monitor…

…But 2.0.15 is more stable, and lets me run LED feedback at lower latency.

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Had audio problem with the 2.9.4 due to slow computer I thought…
Changed back to 2.0.15 yesterday, thanks to this thread, and the audio works again!

So big +1 to 2.0.15

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sweet :slight_smile:

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Still using 2.0.15 as of TSP2…

And now ALL LED based distortion issues have been resolved.

I can now run my Audio 2, and Audio 8, with two decks of internal or external playback, at 1ms USB/ 2ms Audio latency as per the ASIO driver, calculated to 6.5ms total overall latency by TSP2, with NO distortion, with key-lock, 3 separate controllers covered in LED’s, and massive effect/LED feedback spamming.

I call that 10 out of 10.

New software, more features, runs more efficiently as well.

Winning.

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Need help please!

Hi everyone i am trying to run maya44 soundcard with cdj-200s and a djm 400 mixer and using traktor pro. I am new to this so im not sure what im doing wrong.
i have the cdjs hooked up to the line in on the maya44. and the outputs are connected to my mixer. i have the audio4 driver as well that i dloaded from the site as well as asio4all driver
whenever i push cue or play on the cdjs all that happens is a loud beep coming through the speakers and nothing happens in traktor.
if someone could help me out with this i would really appreciate it :slight_smile:
thanks

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Traktor scratch won’t work with the maya44, you need an official NI sound card for it to work.