Hello, Vestax community! I would be greateful to someone who can help me. I have the following problem. I have Macbook 404, 4 Gb memory, new hard drive with installed “tiger”, licensed “Traktor Pro 1.2”, Vestax tr1 controller and an audio card “Audio 2” (I used to have “Audio 4”, but I still had this problem). “Traktor” is being very strange last days. Sometimes it can freeze for some seconds. Sometimes it happens dusring playback, which is unexaptable! What do you think the problem could be? Thanks in advance for your replies. Hi from Russia!
Yes Traktor Pro runs on Tiger at the moment but Tiger is now considered a Legacy OS so any further Traktor update may not work on Tiger.
This has been made clear on the NI website regarding TSP. All users should update to Leopard.
The problem with freezing could just be a latency problem. Try raising latency and lowering the Sample Rate.
You dont have the soundcard on a USB Hub do you? That should not be done and it will cause all manner of issues.
Not officially but there is a Fix Patch available the cures all “known” issues with Snow Leopard. Time will tell but the people i speak to on the forum that i know for a fact have well managed systems are having zero issues with Snow.
I am ready to upgrade to Snow Leopard today and I’ve done my Time Machine back up just in case the sky falls but I was wondering about the Audio 8 issue. I’ve been reading in some posts that it’s not 64 bit compatible so some Snow Leopard users are having issues with it such as not loading at all or cutting off after playing for an hour or so. Can anyone confirm this? Snow Leopard can load a 32 bit driver right? Why would it try to load it in 64 bit?
I guess I should have done a little more digging before asking this question. This what I found on the NI support site:
"All installations of Mac OS X 10.6 on Apple consumer models start in 32bit kernel mode by default. This kernel mode allows the operation of both 32bit and 64bit Mac OS X applications.
Users can activate an optional 64bit kernel mode through a special key combination during the boot process. However, drivers for NI audio interfaces and controllers are currently not compatible with 64bit kernel mode. "
In other words leave the start up as the default and don’t use the 64 bit kernel mode on NI audio apps for now.
Yeah, more and more apps will support the 64bit kernel, but for the time being you cannot rely on everything working in 64bit mode. The importantly, for now there isnt much of any benefit in running in 64bit kernel mode .. so its not like you are loosing much. So do not worry about this .. its all good. I will upgrade as soon as 10.6.2 is out, which is currently in development. Not because there is a particular issue I am waiting to see fixed there (though it does fix that nasty delete your home folder when letting someone use guest mode bug), but I just figure that its just around the corner, so I might as well wait until then.