make sure the djm is set to line on the the channel you have the k2 plugged into. If it’s set to phono you will lose about half of your gain levels.
Now now guys, there’s a difference between someone not knowing what they’re talking about and deliberately LYING. I think this is probably just a case of the former.
I know, that’s what I’ve been doing, until I started experiencing heavy glitches on it. The glitches can be solved by disconnecting the K2. Vice Versa, disconnecting the contour does not solve the volume issue on the contour, however.
If you’re getting glitchy playback it’s probably a problem with the ASIO driver of the K2; try disabling/uninstalling it in device manager and just using it as a controller 
How quiet can it possibly be? I keep my gains around the 9-10 o’clock position for high output devices (NI sound cards, CDJs) - and even lower power devices like phones don’t need to be pushed past 12 o’clock.
If you’re using the DJM900 you may as well use its built-in interface. It has the lowest latency of any interface I’ve used so far and allows you to easily record your mix, all without a single audio cable. You can also use any connected turntables or CDJs for Traktor timecode without having to reconnect a thing.
Now that sounds like a good idea! So far, I just uninstalled the ASIO driver, however, that also disabled the midi functionality of the K2. It doesn’t seem to run without the ASIO driver. I’ll look around in the device manager (hadn’t looked there yet) and I’ll report back.
Thanks!
The problem is not my home setup: The problem first occured when setting up for a gig. With 15 minutes to go before my gig starts I can’t go and set up an entirely new system setup. I figured I had one back-up audio interface in the K2. Plan C were the CDJ’s (I always bring cd’s), so I went with that.
For my digital setup I don’t want to rely on what’s in the club, I want to have a reliable setup with me. I thought I had that with the Reloop Contour and the Xone:K2, but for now I’ll have to find something else. (my temporary solution is using yet another audio interface, a Traktor Audio 2, which has been working out, but it does n’t feel comfortable leaving the issue unsolved.)
So the K2 interface works fine at home?
No, same problem, but the low volume is n’t such a problem at home. I don’t use it, tho, I use the NI audio 2. However, with this issue unresolved this doesn’t feel like a stable solution for gigs (also, adding more audio interfaces after 2 audio interfaces had a conflict doesn’t seem like a solution).
So I should not buy a K2 then?
If you have the Audio 10 you don’t need to bother with the K2 sound card.
Not if you are looking for an audio interface.
If you’re looking for a smart, versatile, compact controller, you definately should. It’s an awesome controller!
The audio interface in the K2 is fine, lots of people use it happily. Just because you have problems doesn’t mean that everyone does.
Either your have a faulty unit or something else in your setup has gone wrong, either way it’s an anomaly and not something people should be basing their buying decision upon.
Might be, but the question was whether I would recommend it, and to that my answer is clear.
By the way, I did not start this thread, there are more threads about this issue, also on the A&H forum: I am by no means the only one experiencing the volume issue.
The output volume is low, however you are the only person who has an output volume so low that it cannot be corrected by the gain knob, the same way to have to any time you use different audio sources together. Or any vinyl at all. Also, you’re the only person experiencing glitches. And according to your previous post it was somehow a lower volume than a completely silent channel…
Somehow I think the problem here is not the K2’s interface, but the user.
I’m pretty sure he’s not the only one with output volume unusably low (otherwise there would be no complaints) and he certainly cannot be the only one experiencing glitches.
I think that anyone who thinks that a low volume is a problem has never mixed with vinyl. It’s not a problem. Up until recently it was just another part of DJing that you used your head and one turn of a knob to resolve.
The hardware is perfectly capable of operating without glitching, it is almost certainly a software issue in this case.
If it’s certainly a software problem you should be able to point out exactly what’s causing it then?
Repeatedly attacking the wording of a post and saying the problem is non-existant doesn’t contribute much to the thread. If the volume was still usable he wouldn’t be here asking for help.
Well he’s already flat out lied about the situation once and he’s ignored it when I call him on it so I find it very hard to believe what he’s saying.
A low volume is not a problem. That’s what the gain knob on a mixer is for. Low volume hasn’t been a problem for decades of DJs, why is it suddenly a problem now? I worry that people don’t understand the basics of managing their levels if they can’t figure this one out.
Glitching is a problem, for sure, but there’s no reason to believe the problem is a hardware fault common to all K2s. More likely this is an unfortunate anomaly.
And no, I cannot magically point out what is wrong with a setup I don’t know anything about. In order to narrow it down we need to do some tests, remove/replace/reinstall elements of the system while seeing if the problem persists, the same way you would do when you’re trying to debug any system. Key things to try would be different laptops, different software, different drivers, different USB ports, with and without other processes running, etc.
This has certainly escalated