Hello, first of all, my english won’t be perfect as im italian, second, thank you for reading and trying to help.
I’ve just bought and installed the traktor kontrol s4 and Traktor 2 and I have serious problems:
I’ve installed and connected everything how it has to be. When I play a song using the internal s4 audio device the problems start.. instead if I run Traktor with the internal audio device of my PC there are no problem. Guess what? To dj of course you need to use the s4 audio device so..
So now im using the s4 audio device.
I’ve connected my Yamaha hs80m that works amazing ( I’ve checked the yamaha and the cables that they worked and they work) into the main 1 and main 2. I play a track and here the problems begin: The audio begin to crackle. Even If i connect with only my headphones the problem is still there. Every 5-6 seconds it crackles, it jumps, you know what im saying.. And this only if im using the s4 audio device like i said.
Another problem is that Traktor the software crashes very often, especially when im chaning for example someting in the preferences. Then, when it has crashed, im not able to close the program, even if I use the task manager, I must turn off the pc and not torning off simply clicking the start and turn off. I must turn it off pressing the button for 5-6 seconds. Because if I restart the system normally and the s4 is still connected with the traktor 2 .. the pc won’t turn off.
I bet it is not my pc actually, because before installing traktor I had just reformatted my pc. so it was clean like a baby.. My pc is:
HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC
Intel Core i7 , 2.30GHz
8 GB RAM
Windows 7
I’ve seen on the web that others have this problem, a lot because of the cpu, here I can say it is not the cpu actually because it never goes on the red..
I’ve also tried reinstall traktor but nothing.. I’ve tried change latency, turning wifi off,.. but the problem is still there.
Have you tried using the S4 windows script to close ALL non-essential system programs? I also used game booster when I ran an S4 with a windows machine.
The S4 issues can definitely be sorted out so dont panic, but be prepared to do a bit of tweaking to find the perfect configuration for your set up.
Don’t just turn off your wifi, completely disable your wireless network cards. Turning off wireless did nothing for me, but disabling the actual wireless devices from Computer Management fixed the crackling.
Regarding the crash, I have no idea…There are a number of posts both here and on NI’s forum for performance tuning on Windows PCs. I don’t have the link(s) handy, but I know they’re out there.
I’m going to follow your instructions mate! Thank you
So do you think that with my consolle is everything ok and it is just a common problem of optimization this?
And another thing.. but this means that everytime I must turn off the antivirus, the sound card and ect..?!
You need to find which tweaks suit your system and do these every time. But honestly I had mine to 3 or 4 things that took no more than a minute to complete.
First things first though. Find what makes your system run the best.
I’ve changed the s4 konsolle and now I have a new one.
I’ve installed it following the guide and the problem guess what.. is still there.
I’ve downloaded the LatencyMon and I detected that the problem is the ACPI.sys which is doing 10.2ms in Execution.
So I guess that if I fix this it should work right? How do I fix it? I’ve googled but found nothing.
I’ve tried disabling into the device manager the Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery but nothing changes (maybe i’ve disabled the wrong one?)
I’ve noticed 2.6.3 keeps setting my latency buffer size to 32 and I have to up it so the CPU load isn’t so high which causes pops and crackles. 2.6.2 seemed to save my setting, but 2.6.3 doesn’t want to. So everytime I start up Traktor, I have to change the setting.
