Sound Drops Out For A Split Second

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Sound Drops Out For A Split Second

I am running Traktor Pro on my Hewlett Packard laptop running Windows 7 x64 Professional with a Vestax VCI 100 & the Native Instruments audio 8. I am coming out of channel A on the Audio 8 and into my amp The laptop has a 3 gig processor and 4 gig of ram.

So I am practising my Techno set and recording it within Traktor and on 3 separate occasions now I have experienced the sound dying for a split second and then coming back on.

Is this a latency problem? I have the preferences set to fast cpu and it has still done it. It did it when it was set to slow also.

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What’s your latency set at?

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Latency is set to 5.5ms.

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If your not scratching 10+works fine.

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Okay thanks. Do you think 5.5 ms is too low?

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I’m not sure if that’s your issue or not, but 5.5 is pretty low. It’s an easy change to see if that might be the problem and worth a try. I run mine at 10.5 ms

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Okay I will run the set again later and let you know how it goes. Thanks for your help photojojo.

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5.5ms is the default. Check your wireless networking. Is the adaptor on? Turn it off if it is. That’s usually the main culprit of dropouts and dropouts are a freakin’ no no. Makes you look bloody stupid and the haters will say, ‘We told him not to use DVS!’. :roll_eyes:

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Mine will set itself at 30ms every time if I don’t change it. Turning off WiFi and bluetooth is a good idea.

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Ooops, forgot to mention Bluetooth because I don’t even bother installing the drivers since I’d rather plug the SD or microSD cards directly into my notebooks if I need to transfer stuff to my phones.

Wonder what affects the default settings. Geography? :smiley: I’ve installed Traktor Scratch / Scratch Pro and Pro on at least 7 to 8 systems. All defaulted to 5.5ms and we’re talking about systems with different hardware configurations.

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Yes mine defaulted to 5.5ms. It is strange because it is only happened about 4 times in the last week and prior to this it was solid. That probably will be because I used to play on my pc and with the creative soundcard built in.

Thanks for your help guys. I will keep you posted on what happens.