I spent ages in the shop, they must have wanted to murder me. I b2b’d the S4, the T1 and the 4TRAK, and for me, the S4 was just perfect. Everything is spaced right, the buttons are actually delightful, at first they repulsed me. the 4TRAK was really nice, felt great, and admittedly the metal chassis did come across more suitable for road use than the S4… But it’s absolutely massive. I just couldn’t see myself rocking up the club with a coffin, and then whipping out that monster. I don’t think any DJ booth I’ve ever worked in could fit that thing!
I guess now I have to make one of the pointless sigs that lists my gear?
EDIT: Also forgot, only had it home for an hour-ish, first thing I did was map flux mode. So easy to map this thing, everything is labelled exact! I’m just sat here drooling on it now.
To be honest I think anything over £150 is a plunge with the current economy. I was looking at those originally, really wanted to try one, I used a friends 300 and the jog wheels where sublime. I’m a try before I buy kind of guy though so. Woo for plunges!
Be sure to check all those buttons work nicely (now, and every month until your warranty is out). Especially the small round ones.
I had 3 faulty buttons on my last S4, all on separate sections of the controller.
It’s fairly obvious the ring around the button is to prevent accidental presses, but the design itself is cheap and the button does not fill the gap properly.
That exact button on my last S4 only worked if you pressed it diagonally; pressing straight down had no effect.
Well I’ve been smashing it for a good few hours now and I’ve actually just broke something.
Just kidding, it’s fine! What a beautiful piece of equipment. I’m blown away by the jogs. I honestly didn’t think I’d care for jog wheels as much as I do right now. Just unreal how good they feel. If they had a tension adjustment, they would probably the greatest thing since the internet was invented. For me, anyways.
right about that bro. I wish it could have been bigger though. But hopping from the biggie jogwheeled Mixtrack to the S4, it’s an entirely different world!
After a good amount of time smashing it last night, I started experiencing audio spikes where it lagged for 5/6 seconds at most, every 30-60 minutes, randomly, so currently running LatencyMon trying to figure out what it is. Think I’ve narrowed it down to Intel Rapid Store. I had two remix decks running full and two track decks running with 4 delays on each deck earlier , really trying to push it to the max, and the load meter barely even sneezed, and the latency is.. Well nothing I don’t think. I plugged it in and straight out the box it seemed instantaneous. Just a pity with Windows systems other manufacturers start putting their own weird programs on that mess with your system.
How recent was that? I can’t remember willingly updating it, but Windows 8 seems to update itself all the time. My chipset and BIOS are all up to date. Just ran LanteyMon fine for a good 40 minutes before it spiked again, must have been everything at once, disabled ACPI, TCP/IP and uninstalled Intel device manager and now the bar is barely budging at all.
Does it consume more and more memory as in, it just keeps eating and growing? Because this was literally just an occasional spike, but it made two other drivers take up massive chunks as well. In fact, the TCP/IP has really taken a huge chunk out of the latency.
HOLY, Something just spiked it up to 996 uS… but the drivers, only two of them are 0.1.. In fact it could run every value on there all at once and it wouldn’t come anywhere close to 0.996… What on earth could that be?
How recent was that? I can’t remember willingly updating it, but Windows 8 seems to update itself all the time. My chipset and BIOS are all up to date. Just ran LanteyMon fine for a good 40 minutes before it spiked again, must have been everything at once, disabled ACPI, TCP/IP and uninstalled Intel device manager and now the bar is barely budging at all.
Does it consume more and more memory as in, it just keeps eating and growing? Because this was literally just an occasional spike, but it made two other drivers take up massive chunks as well. In fact, the TCP/IP has really taken a huge chunk out of the latency.
HOLY, Something just spiked it up to 996 uS… but the drivers, only two of them are 0.1.. In fact it could run every value on there all at once and it wouldn’t come anywhere close to 0.996… What on earth could that be?
It’ll just keep taking more and more of your resources the longer your computer is on.
You’ll see it in your task manager. If it’s nto one of the top memory hoggers then you probably have it updated. It won’t get updated with Windows updates though.
Well it’s gone now so, never mind. And my computer seems to be running faster. I think I may have found a likely culprit though, I think my HDD might have been falling asleep. We’ll see how it goes!
