I am currently redoing all my mappings and settings to have a fresh start with Traktor Pro 2, and am re-experiencing some weird issues concerning audio crackles.
When I twist just 1 knob of my Akai LPD8, it makes the audio crackle - or when twisted too rapidly even hang completely for a second or so, even when this knob is unmapped. It also happens when twisting multiple knobs (4 actually, more a proof of concept than an actual problem) on my Reloop Digital Jockey, 1 knob isn’t enough here.
The only way to fix this is by setting my latency at minimum 20ms, which I find unacceptably high.
I’m not sure how this is possible. I set 4 decks playing with all effects enabled (including beatmasher) and applied, this all plays without problems at 6.5ms (still rather high, but good enough for me), yet some un-mapped MIDI needs more resources?
It happened with TP on this laptop too, yes, although I believe the minimum latency to make it work was less than now - it wouldn’t really have been workable otherwise..
I don’t really think it happened on my previous laptop too (this one’s just a couple of months old), but I can’t bee 100% sure on that.
I’m not sure what you mean with optimizing it for audio use - I suppose you mean not having installed all kinds of crap software and drivers? At this point, it’s not exactly what you’d call optimized, but the issue also occured right after a clean Win7 install with basically nothing but Traktor installed. I also monitored the CPU load while twisting the knobs, and it basically never peaked above 10%..
I have been considering a dualboot for some time now, maybe this would be a good time to go for it, although I’m still not sure that’s gonna fix it.
For example, try every USB port, different USB cables, see if it happens with no software open, or on different computers? It very well could just be the controller.
My laptop has 2 USB3 ports and 1 USB2 port, apparently only the USB2 port works without any issues. Now that I come to think of it, I recall having read somewhere that Intel is doing a shit job on USB3 drivers, looks like my Quest for The Holy Driver has just begun. Damnit.
Thanks for the help everyone, I’ll post back with information for co-USB3-owners!
Not sure if the facepalm is directed towards me or Intel, but USB3 is (well, should be) backwards compatible with USB2, so I wasn’t being a tard plugging them in
