Reply to 9 hour S4 set - almost no problems.

Once a year I play a set on the beach here in Barcelona. I normally use vinyl but as you can imagine thats a lot of crates to take (as well as the kit to play them).

I recently bought an S4 from DJTT and I put it through its paces on Saturday.

Setting up was a breeze, I have a well rehersed routing to get the kit assembled and powered up in less than 15 mins, the S4 and the computer reduces this time to around 1 min !

The weather was HOT! but the S4 and the XPS17 had absolutley no problems, it was on the beach and the sand was blowing around - S4/XPS again no problems.

The XPS has a small problem with the reflections in the bright sunlight, but a pair of polorising sunglasses fixed that.

The Spec.

XPS17 L701x - 16GB DDR3, 2x500XT momentus hybrid HDD., i7 740Q, windows 7x64 (29 process installaion). USB3.

S4 / TSP 2.0.3 ...... 48Khz / 64 samples

2 x 1210 MK5 - TSP TCV (red - makes no difference except they look nice)


I have a lot of RAM, so 4 Gb was dedicated to TEMP/reports ... setup as if it was an SSD system. Also the music files were stored on 1 Tb USB WD passport as WAV or MP3-320, although a few times i did pick out a few older MP3's as requests and no-one even noticed that a 128bit MP3 was playing ..


In the 9 hours continuous spot (long tracks for toilet breaks) there were only two problems and it was exactly the same problem.

Unfortunetly i can't remember the exact button sequence, but whilst in browse mode and loading the next track in deck B, i managed to kill the sound completely and stop track A playing. No it's not being loaded into the wrong deck ... further investigation will be required and i believes it's a workflow thing rather than a fault.

Due to my knowing the event organisers very well, i managed to blame the PA and the heat for the outage .... but i'll need to remember to avoid the same sequence again. It's something i noticed a few weeks back in the club, but fortunately the loop recorder and microphone were active at the time, so no deal breaker ...

If anyone else recognises the error/fault/bug described let me know, thanks.


So well done NI and DJTT ... the S4 outlived last years DJM800 in the sunshine and sands of Barcelona