Traktor Pro - Midi crash during performance with M-audio UC-33e controller.

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Traktor Pro - Midi crash during performance with M-audio UC-33e controller.

Hello everyone and Merry Christmas!

I have Traktor Pro and M-audio uc-33e controller. They fit my need perfectly, but I experienced problems sometimes. My problem is always the same… during performance my Traktor loose midi signal, so I have to restart Traktor and after that everything is ok again. But today I got this problem twice for just one hour and I have a DJ performance tonight, so I’m really afraid not to have this problem during my performance this evening.

When I lost my midi signal last time, I opened Ableton Live to check if I have midi in general and I had midi in Ableton, so the problem is not in my controller but in Traktor.

What to do? Is there any way to reactivate midi without restarting Traktor?

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Have you updated traktor?

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No, never!

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I used to Dj with Traktor Pro and UC33. when I encountered this issue, I used to unplug the usb cable and re-plug, and after a few seconds, midi was back.

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Try re installing traktor… and uptading would work… every month or two my traktor goes crazy so i restart it…

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I had the exact same issue and I used to do the exact same thing. It is very annoying but it was the best I could do and only happened on a few occasions.

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This is what I would do if it happens tonight.

I’m halfway impressed that traktor doesn’t bork out when you unplug controllers…I’m pretty sure it used to at one point.

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But sometimes I had a bigger issue with the UC33: my midi mapping didn’t worked anymore, and I had to remap everything in a few minutes ‘cause I was playin’ 5 minutes after.

The CC assignation changed and I couldn’t go back to the original CC…

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I plug my’n into my audio 8 with a midi cable and I have no issues at all with my uc33e.

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I have tried this but midi never got back… So as if I predicted somehow what could happen last night… my midi friezed at least 6 times so I have to play the same song in Winamp and in the beatless parts of the song I plaied Winamp till I restart the Traktor… so my performance started becoming a nightmare till the moment when I just did throw the computer and controller away and started playing the good reliable CDJ’s.

Probably this was the last chance I gave to software DJing… I just gave up. I will use it just at home to record mixes or so.