Audio Interface Question

"Then I bought a mac and it worked" Oh you mean that mac that you hadnt spent months destroying with malware, porn, and trojans and a completely borked registry? Interesting logic on why that mac was just going to work.

To the OP, you said youve tried everything.. even got a little snippy suggesting so. So we are to just take your word for it, know what yovue tried and suggest you buy a new soundcard?


Not sure why buying a mac is being suggested... a overpriced waste of money and hell see the post on the first page here.. Some dudes brand new m ac wont even recognize the x1 and audio6 he just bought.. Hows that for out of the box for you?


As Slvr said above.. you havent really said what youve tried... since "youve tried it all". What tweaks did you make? What buffer setting combinations did you use/tried etc

I have 3 friends who own an S4 with their windows machine and it works fine. With a bottom spec CPU you are going to have to run some very high latency settings

If you have tried a fresh install, and it still doesnt work with high latency settings I would suspect something is wrong with your laptop.

Does your Laptop have USB3 or USB2? If USB3 make sure you have NI's latest drivers as there have been issues with USB3. Also, I heard some people mention that some AMD processors don't play nice with NI interfaces.

Well if you wanna know what the real problem was it was the USB connection on my shitty windows laptop. The way Windows distributes power as well as crappy build quality on the physical ports ... and if you read my later post i suggested a budget way of putting together an affordable mac that will perform perfectly with Traktor and the S4 or any NI product.... Whatevers though what do i and almost all successful DJ's know i'm not here to debate do as you like.

Thanks for the info.

I believe NI needs to edit their minimum requirements page because they state that the S4 will work with an `AMD Athlon 64' (which is what I have) but clearly it gives audio problems.

I will look into buying a newer laptop soon and update this thread should it work.

I'm guessing youre still using the AMD Turion TL-66? It seems to benchmark similarly to a 1.4GHz Core 2 Duo, a 1.7Ghz Core 1 Duo, and a 1.8Ghz Celeron, all of which are below spec.

I've already spent months checking out what the issues may be and then trying to solve it - I thought I made this fact abundantly clear.

What I really would like to know if anyone else who had latency issues managed to solve this problem by getting an external sound-card/interface.

Because if that doesn't work then I'll have to buy a Mac which I don't want too, and it's expensive!

I believe it's much more likely that you're having Windows issues, and the latency you're seeing would appear regardless of which interface you use. The S4 and the interface it contains are 100% Windows compatible.