S4 - so many problems !
S4 - so many problems ! Posted on: 22.11.2010 by money monoma Hey : I bought the s4 . I'm very frustrated because I must to use Game Booster & ProcessHacker for use my system without issues . It's not only me , a lot of users (also Mac users ) are having problems with sound & freezing .Our systems are OK , TSP is working perfect in our machines , but this new baby is like a evening mare . Tech Support is really BAD & slow , they try to "teach" you how to disable things (also wireless ) . We will never have an official answer from NI . For shure they will fix the problem but in the meantime they are saying : your system is the problem : BULLSHITS ! I only can seat & wait till the next update ...but I can remenber problems with other hardware | |
| Nedra Fresneda 02.01.2011 |
Originally Posted by MartinK
opened the mac for some cleaning and 1 ram stick wasn't correctly plugged back in, so i was running with 1gb of ram.... opened again, reinstalled them and now running fine and dandy |
| Dewey Melchi 02.01.2011 |
Originally Posted by photojojo
Stating the obvious as far as music processing/anything with heavy use of RAM. Mac > PC |
| Hailey Westen 02.01.2011 |
Originally Posted by jfd6812
and did you have to do ANY tweeks at all to get the full performance out of the S4. also, could other MBP users say if they needed to do any tweeks with drivers/settings etc to get the most from the S4, or do MBP works right off the bat ? thanks in advance EDIT. im a windows user and tweeking windows aint a problem for me, but i dont know my way around MACs (yet) |
| Karolis Petrauskas 29.12.2010 |
Originally Posted by Erick
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| Eloy Snopkowski 27.12.2010 |
Originally Posted by AfroWhitie
my crappy windows laptop run it fine L2UseWIndows ! |
| Leeanna Ayla 26.12.2010 |
Originally Posted by AfroWhitie
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| Nedra Fresneda 02.01.2011 |
Originally Posted by MartinK
opened the mac for some cleaning and 1 ram stick wasn't correctly plugged back in, so i was running with 1gb of ram.... opened again, reinstalled them and now running fine and dandy |
| Dewey Melchi 02.01.2011 |
Originally Posted by photojojo
Stating the obvious as far as music processing/anything with heavy use of RAM. Mac > PC |
| Hailey Westen 02.01.2011 |
Originally Posted by jfd6812
and did you have to do ANY tweeks at all to get the full performance out of the S4. also, could other MBP users say if they needed to do any tweeks with drivers/settings etc to get the most from the S4, or do MBP works right off the bat ? thanks in advance EDIT. im a windows user and tweeking windows aint a problem for me, but i dont know my way around MACs (yet) |
| Onie Sarandos 29.12.2010 | For whatever its worth, it has been a different world using my S4 with my new MBP. Thank you, mbp, thank you. |
| Karolis Petrauskas 29.12.2010 |
Originally Posted by Erick
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| Merilyn Sellards 29.12.2010 | Woah, turning off the wifi helps a million, believe that was my only problem, that and having a clean computer, I had a bday bash after the club and we made like 3 2-hour sets, tore the crap out of the sample decks, and all on my PC not one glitch, cut, crash but the ones I intentionally made XD |
| Karolis Petrauskas 28.12.2010 | Dude you were so right, the S4 is awesome. I'm so hooked and am having a blast. It sure has helped this week considering most of NYC is still under 3 feet of snow. |
| Julissa Serrone 28.12.2010 | ^ dope!!!! |
| Karolis Petrauskas 28.12.2010 | I just wanted to chime in about Win 7. So far I have zero issues running Traktor S4 & Traktor Pro/Scratch Pro. My specs: Windows 7 i5 processor 2.26ghz Dell XPS 16 4 Gigs Ram 500 Gig HD NOTE: I installed a regular version of Win 7 on my machine. As with most/all commercially purchased windows machines you MUST remove all the crap the hardware manufacter sends. Clean your startup items and follow BASIC Windows tweaks. Just an FYI I love Macs also and have owned them as well as repair them on a daily basis. I just want to let people know that Mac is not the only machine that traktor will work with 100%. You can do the same with Windows and about an hour of your time. Google "WINDOWS AUDIO TWEAKS" and perform the most popular ones. Also note you can get a nice windows laptop for about 500 - 600$ USD. ENJOY. |
| Eloy Snopkowski 27.12.2010 |
Originally Posted by AfroWhitie
my crappy windows laptop run it fine L2UseWIndows ! |
| Leeanna Ayla 26.12.2010 |
Originally Posted by AfroWhitie
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| Daisy Dotseth 26.12.2010 | I'm pretty sure now that most problems people experience are due to messy machines - after finally getting my s4 i plugged it into my comparatively 'low end' dell notebook: XPpro 2ghz 2gb ram I have played on it for about 4 hours using 2 decks and samples plus effects and also left it on looping tracks between playing for about 12 hours. Not a hint of a dropout Fresh format - no bloatware - no antivirus = win for me so far p.s. wireless on the whole time and no battery management disabled |
| Merilyn Sellards 22.12.2010 | Actually I have tried it with both my macbook pro c2duo 2.4 ghz 4gb ddr3 and my asus 2.13 gh c2duo 4gb ddr2 and the mac clips/glitches and the pc doesn't but both have crashed kind of dissapointing, I do notice it has crashed while using sample decks or recorder though... |
| Peggy Gabrielson 21.12.2010 | I had a Dell which I had heaps of problems with, now using a Macbook pro with no issues. But I reckon that NI is going to release updates over the next few months that will fix a lot of the issues on PCs. Sad that such a solid product doesn't seem to have been tested enough... oh well. |
| Ginny Fergson 20.12.2010 | Cool, believe I'll persevere with the sony. |
| Shalon Jaranilla 19.12.2010 | So after two gigs with one 6 hours in a row, i seem to be glitch free. Updated drivers, pulled out the battery, tuned the power settings as well for the usb, disabled all nvida high definition audio, disabled the realtek high audio definition, disabled wifi and bluetooth, run on a clean install windows 7 ultimate edition, Killed unnecessary processes in task. manager laptop vaio intel core 2 duo 2,2 T 6600 ghz model vpccw13fx Still believe NI needs to update their drivers, but for now it's ok. Didn't test recording yet, last time before some last tweaks that gave a real mess audio wise. I still want a macbook pro, but i'm afraid to jump the boat to soon. All the models are almost a year old, and they probably gonna update their line soon. So Any changes to my s4 and my lappy, i will update. |
| Julissa Serrone 19.12.2010 | For the guys with the Autogain issues...what do you have your software volume at? Also are you using the limiter. I've played with anything from -2.5db to -8db. I believe if you adjust that first you will find the autogain works pretty good. It's not perfect though |
| Eloy Snopkowski 19.12.2010 | RUN Dpc latency checker(http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml) on your computer too see if its can handle audio procession if its stay in the green your comp is fini if its spkie then you have stuff to disable and work on. NOTHING COMPLICATED ...still having some buzz (repeat and stuck for 1sec) when switching effects but other than this i can run it fine a on crappy laptop |
| Ginny Fergson 19.12.2010 | Interesting reading; are Mac users experiecing glitches too then? Have a Mac book on order, but have an equally sexy Viaio that I'd be happy to use. |
| Omar Nila 17.12.2010 |
Originally Posted by popoff44
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| Leeanna Ayla 17.12.2010 | I have no problem with auto gain, but I've got my software main set at -8 I believe. |
| Marylyn Vine 18.12.2010 |
Originally Posted by DJMilk3y
You said you just turn all the gains down to fix this. How exactly are you doing that? Is it manual or did you manage to find a way to automate the process? On a side note, Scratch Live has an option that lets you choose a custom auto-gain level specified in dB. I wish we could have that in traktor s4 software too |
| Omar Nila 17.12.2010 | my only issue is the auto gain and clipping, but im on a macbook and just have to turn all the gains down and it fixes, guess im lucky when things are put in perspective |
| Leeanna Ayla 17.12.2010 | Check the new Windows tuning tips posted at NI http://www.native-instruments.com/fo...d.php?t=125245 |
| Shalon Jaranilla 17.12.2010 | Got my s4 now for some weeks, First it seemed alright with my vaio 2.2 ghz and ultimate 7 clean instal, but then it started the glitches and pops. So i disabled, wifi and my n vida card, further i updated all my drivers and set all the usb ports to 1oo% power'. latency at 256 samples. It's a lot better now but still once in a while a little glitch. next thing i gonna try is taking the battery out. But before the tweaking that didn't make any difference Hope NI comes with a driver update. But yeah that's now a days with buying the first batch, all the brands, now they can update after wards so we are their testers. Happened with all my midi gear |
| Ashlie Netzel 16.12.2010 | Hey all, just droppin in to say I am totally new to digital dj'ing and I got my s4 in the first shipment and I love it. I had to calibrate the jogs once and reboot once but other than that, no problems. The machine is amazing and I'm surprised to hear many complaints. Even though NI is slow as shit as far as customer service, I believe they put out a great product and I'd like to believe that the problem units are just a small percentage. Good luck with it- there are so many options with the s4 and I don't see many people second guessing it over the vci. -DJO |
| Onie Sarandos 16.12.2010 | A lot of probs w/ mine too. I hope I can get them sorted out. I'm starting to wonder if I just should have kept my vci. |
| Hailey Westen 16.12.2010 | anyone fix these spike issues ??? |
| Mac Fly 22.11.2010 | I have had some issues too. Out of all the possible ways to fix CPU spikes I found raising the buffer size helped. But this in fact did not fix all my problems. When I use browse mode I still get massive CPU spikes and audio cracks and pops. |
| Julissa Serrone 22.11.2010 | Man-Tk, Hey brother I've read some of your posts on the NI community and I know your hot and have been patient, but stick with it man. NI has invested way to much into this product to let it flop and not work on all systems. Does it work fine with gameboaster and process hacker? I know that's not the right answer, but there's some guys who can't get it to work, so that's a good thing you can play on yours. NI is not going to make a statement until they have a solution. Look at Apple and the Iphone 4. It came out had tons of issues then they had a press conference much later. I do wonder how much of this came about during beta testing and why the still released the S4 if it wasn't ready. I believe either they felt the need to meet their 1 November date, or they wanted to get a head start on Sales prior to the holidays and prior to Winter NAMM. Which means it was obviously all profit based. Hopefully they are working around the clock and fix this asap. If it's not fixed in a month or so everyone who was unsure about getting one, will just wait another month or so and see what is available after NAMM. So they need to get hot. Stay patient man. |
| 22.11.2010 | Hello man-tk... can u explain what are the issues with your S4? kinda surprised to hear all this.... got my S4 couple days ago and ive been using it without any glitches far... please tell us in detail whats your problem with the S4 hopefully can find you a solution... chubbz |
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