Traktor - What the actual hell?

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Traktor - What the actual hell?

I’m looking around about this on the forum, and one guy has said he managed to fix it by disabling something in his control panel but unfortunatley didn’t say what,

So.. I open up traktor, load a song on to deck one, press play and the song is slightly sped up, and there is a crackling noise like a real mashed up vynl playing throughout,

Music playing through speakers and headphones duel 0 and 1

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If anybody could help, id much appreciate it,

Hi btw, i’m jack, new to DJ’ing, but unsure yet wether to go with traktor, or another prog :wink: Cheers lads, and ladies!

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What OS are you using? What sound card? Try rebooting your computer

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Windows 7

And my soundcard - ATI High Defenition Audio (Standard as beans)
Processor: AMD Turion II Dual-Core Mobile M520 2.30 GHZ
Ram: 4 GB
OS: 64 bit

Tryed rebooting and reinstalling, and messing with settings,

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What’s your latency set at in the preference pane? Around 10ms is usually pretty good, the higher it goes the less of a chance for sound problems. I don’t use Windows, but I see lots of people prefer Asio4All over OE sound drivers.

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“plays faster” sounds like different sample rates in Traktor and in the audio control panel (=> start/run/mmsys.cpl) For instance my laptop’s built-in audio was set at 48khz by default but traktor was at 44.1khz.
Setting that right will get rid of the pitch/speed issue.
Setting up asio4all on top of that will take care of the crackles.

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If you are using an internal sound card you are very likely going to run into huge sound issues with any DJ software after a small amount of time. Look into getting an interface and I wouldn’t be surprised if all of these problems go away.

Or try out ASIO4All instead of the standard sound drives for now.

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Elo all, thanks very much for the fast replys, i have changed the sample rate in audio settings and now the crackling and sped up music has gone so all is fine,

will look in to getting an interface :slight_smile: am going to get all the hardware i want gradually as i decide traktor is for me :slight_smile: atm just thinking about getting the kontrol and an interface i guess?

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The new Kontrol S4?

It has built in Audio Device…

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Oh lol, there you go then, yeh that one.. :wink: As you can see, Traktor is VERY new to me :stuck_out_tongue:

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We were all there once mate!!

:slight_smile:

HEHEHE…I should actually lookup my first few posts…to see what a noob I was and the questions i asked.

:slight_smile:

Do yourself a favour and check out the DJTechtools channel on Youtube. Watch all the vids and check it out on Traktor for yourself.

It will makes BIG sense…:slight_smile:

Then…check out the FAQ, there are some REAL interesting stuff in there that will help you on your way.

It made my transition to digital … a breeze!!!

:slight_smile:

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Mate your a legend, funny thing is, i’ve got no transition, i have been djing on virtual dj for a few weeks, but i wanna go futher, cant pay out my ass for vynl and i love the thought of having a setup with my laptop etc, so im thinking of just going virtual rather than cd decks or vynl,

will check out all of that stuff, if you think starting virtual is a bad idea please let me know :slight_smile:

bed time now, but i shall pm you when ive checked it all out, ty very much mate x

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There are a good few Virtual DJ users on this forum, sure you will get the help and support you need.

I am biased as I use and like Traktor…so i would say go for that.

The thing that helped me decide on the setup I have is the support on it …here!

There is no other VCI support like there is here.
There is no other Traktor Support like there is here.

No other place will give you mappings and overlays like this place.

You have found the HOLY GRAIL!

:slight_smile:

So I know that I will get ALL the help I need…right here.

Is HOME!

:slight_smile:

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Can I get an amen!!

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Traktor is more advanced and the s4 just looks amazing, plus it means i can buy everything in one nice payment, so im going with that :stuck_out_tongue:

Just gotta save up, should have it by december :slight_smile: it’s good to be here, i’m home too :wink:

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Which should be just about perfect timing I think.

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Yeah…I really wanted 4 decks…and that’s kinda how i ended up with my rig.
Hybrid.

But…if that was now…i would DEF get the S4…most fucking DEF!

But…I have the VCI-100 and TSP with my decks…as well as an APC40.

Got the VCI and Timecode is sorted and just getting into the APC…so I don’t want nor need to get rid of it for the S4.

It would be cool…but I don’t believe in getting the newest shiniest device as they come out everytime.

If i did that…i would never master any of them and get to a point where i can really work it like an instrument.

I have what I need…that’s the ONLY reason I am not getting the S4.

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Highly recommend this book for starters.

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