REALLY annoying glitch in Traktor. Fixable?
When mixing 2 tunes and spinning back one record quickly just before dropping into another tune, the sound of the track I am spinning back drops out, therefore making the mix sound shit. It happens more often than not.
Anyone get this? Anyway to sort this out? It really is a big pain in the ass!
Traktor Pro, Audio 8, Time code vinyl.
Thanks
specs on the laptop you’re using?
Are you using iTunes aac files ?
Macbook 2.4 4gig ram OSX snow. Definitely not using AAC files, only MP3 & AIFFs.
could you just be spinning the timecode back too fast and the needle is struggling to track, so no signal being sent
Nope, spinning it back as I would regular vinyl. Sound literally cuts out at the fastest point the vinyl is spinning at then comes back in as it slows again. Using M447’s, they hardly ever jump or have problems tracking.
maybe the speed is just scrambling the signal then, so nothing to guide traktor and it kills the audio as it thinks the deck has stopped?
just throwing ideas out there
This is pretty much what I was thinking, that basically Traktor can’t handle it every time. Rather fucking annoying! Is anyone using timecode getting the same problem? Or has anyone got timecode where they can try it out for me to see if they are getting the same results?
Cheers
question is, do you need to spin back that hard/fast?
I cant reproduce this with exactly the same setup (Qbert Carts).
Whats your Latency and Sample Rate settings?
Whats your Keylock Settings for Quality and Mode?
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Latency is on 4.0. High quality and normal mode. Should this make a difference tho if key lock is off?
I’m not spinning it excessively hard. You know when you hear any old DJ do it, that’s how hard I’m doing it. It’s a pretty standard thing to do. It doesnt do it every time, but it does it too frequently for my liking. Wouldnt be able to confidently do it to a crowd, and that kinda shit goes down well well you’re cutting it up
Odd. Is it that frequent that you could catch it on video ?
Are you sure that the needle isnt lifting a tad.
Traktors tracking is absolutely the best of any DVS by far. Its one of the most highly regarded aspects by the users.
I suppose really heavy back spinning could be problematic for tracking but like i say i havent noticed it although i dont back spin much.
Ill give it a go when im home.
i’d ask native instruments directly if no one can help 
Erm, I’ll see what I can do about the vid. Only got a mobile phone cam so I’ll see if I can get something together. I know the needles arent lifting, even if they were jumping up that wouldnt matter, that shit happens with vinyl if done too hard and you can still get the desired effect. This is lasting literally like the length of the spin back. It’s too long without any sound for the needle to be off the record. It’s impossible for the needles to be floating off the record for that long. Like I said before, I am using M447’s which stick like glue and are probably the heaviest carts out there.
I find it happens when I do a spin back just out of the blue, then it wont do it again if I keep doing spin backs to test if its still doing it, its like traktor has realised what I am doing, then if I dont do it for a while it will do it again. But I dont do it THAT often, so when I do do it the problem occurs as its as if Traktor has fallen asleep on that front.. if you get what I am saying
Yeah those guys are the best.
@dodge , it could be a cache thing. Maybe Traktor just isnt catching up quick enough. The new cache system doesnt allow user control like it used to.
To be honest im just guessing really.
Ill ask someone who will know more about the nuts and bolts of whats involved with the software when you do a spinback suddenly (all spinbacks are sudden though doh)…
Nice one. Appreciated
yeah it really sounds like a cache issue.
cacheissue
cashew
in the future if you have this problem, please just give us the signal:
dont push down on the platter?