S4/ S2 Windows users - Still have crackle and pop issues?
Hi,
I was wondering, how many of you have Traktor S4 or S2 and are still plagued with the crackle and pop issues or have you finally gotten your Windows setup crackle and pop free.
Please vote!
scamo
fresh windows install and updating to latest version of traktor helped me loads
Thanks for voting and the feedback.
There are for sure a lot more S2 and S4 users out there, arenāt there?
If so, please vote!
scamo
With my vci-100 and audio2dj it was a disaster, even with a fresh windows install and updates.
Switched to a S2 last month and did a clean windows install.
Fully updated windows and TP2.
I use a seperate partition with windows for TP2 so there is no other software installed. Dedicated and pure fresh windows.
Not much that can go wrong i guess.
Good info. Thanks.
scamo
Small intermittent problem, happening once in a while, inconsistent on an ASUS N61JV.
Symptoms:
This laptop have 2 different video chipset (Intel & Nvidia). It switch between them depending of the application need. You can easily spot which chipset is currently in use by checking the color of the LED on both end (White or blueā¦ White NVida, Blue Intel).
Resolution:
Solved.
ib4 the first āIāve got a MAC plah plah plahā
Hey, this is turning into a pretty good ātips and tricksā thread. I didnāt plan that. But, hey! Please do keep up giving up the āHow I fixed my Windows setupā stories. This is great stuff!
Here is mine:
All I had to do is turn off my WLAN and make sure the anti-virus software isnāt doing its checks. I also turned off the ACPI battery manager. Now my i3 piece of crap Lenovo runs like a charm with Traktor. Only very, very rarely do I get a quick chirp. But only very rarely. I would also get a better computer, before I should ever perform for a live audience.
scamo
as stated above i did a fresh install (on 2nd partition) of windows 7 64-bit. turned off unwanted things like aero, used high performance profile and that was it. i can happily switch between full-screen traktor and firefox and browse the net and back again with 2 tracks playing and no latency higher than 500-600 us and no audio issues.
previously had 32-bit win 7 running a vms4 which had issues with both traktor and vdj.
best info i found to help was http://www.native-instruments.com/knowledge/questions/847/Windows+7+Tuning+Tips+for+audio+processing
Saweet Iām about to get my S4 and the machine Iām going to be using it with is an N61JQ the same as yours except with an ATI 5730 instead of the GT325 and a quad core i7 instead of the i3 or i5. Itās encouraging that someone on more or less the same hardware has it working. It does make sense that the Optimus switching could cause issues with Traktor.
Any more S4 or S2 users out there?
scamo
When I first got my S2 I had absolutely horrible clipping/lag whenever Iād load a track that hadnāt been analyzed yet. Turned off ādual core processingā and havenāt had an issue since.
How do you do this?
Preferences, Audio setup
I got Dropouts if my Wifi is onā¦ when iam switching it Offā¦ just a few seconds a dropoutā¦ and after this everything is clearā¦ but if i dont use traktor and use only my S4 Soundcard and watching Youtube or listen to music on Soundcloudā¦ Pufff PƤƤmm Pimm.. very few Minutesā¦ this sucksā¦ and videos are stopping 1 sec. So i canāt make a Potcast on my Laptop with Wifiā¦ only Eathernet
Hey Mert,
Yeah, using the S4 as the regular sound card for surfing the Internet and listening to sounds from the Internet is horrible on my set-up too. So obviously, NI still has its work cut out.
Iāve found a way to reduce the problems some. It was actually an accident. I have virtual audio cable installed and I went through it just for SnGs and for some reason the pops are much less, but then the sound is delayed enough, that videos on youtube look like Chinese Kungfu movies. Heheheā¦so no real help there either.
Keep the votes coming. I have an ulterior motive with this poll (towards NI) and need all the votes I can get!
Thanks everyone!
scamo
Traktor 2 used to crackle and pop with me. I did the usual web searches and before using TP2 I do the following;
Turn off WiFi,
Turn off Battery (and remove it from my laptop!).
Run my downloaded DJTT Pro Audio Optimiser Script to prep my laptop
Iām running the latest version of TP2 with my S4, and I still get very high CPU usage every now and then! Very occasionally I will get a click or pop when I have something like two decks running, 1 or 2 effects and am using the jog wheel.
I am running it on a Windows 7 64 bit laptop with i3 processor. Not the best spec I know, but I find it disappointing that I have to do so much to my laptop to make it run!
i had a little problem with wi-fi and with hi cpuā¦but iāve fixed it 
If I have an issue I just use SHIFT+T, SHIFT+T, SHIFT+T. Works a charm.
Windows 7 on an Asus G73 (i7, nVidea 460m, 2 hard drives, 8g ram)
Had tons of issues with the software being non-responsive, it was reading the controller fine but nothing would play. When it would play I would get random freezes that would last anywhere from a second or two to me having to restart Traktor. Then it changed to irritating buzzing sounds when turning on effects or other commands.
So solve it I did the following:
After that I still had the software freeze on me twice at one house party so I went back to trouble shooting and found that my track pad drivers were causing problems.
changing to the default windows drivers for the track pad seems to have gotten rid of the last of my problems, which probably means that half the stuff I did before that was totally unnecessary but oh well.
I still get buzzes sometimes when I turn the filters for the first time after starting the software. Now when I turn on the s4 Iām in the habit of turning all the filters to both of their extremes then back to zero. I do the same with the effect dry/wet knobs, the channel faders, and sometimes the eq knobs. Iām pretty sure it just has something to do with them being calibrated when you start the software and s4.
solved major CPU/audio problems by using software from iobit
Check my post: