My S4 keep crackling.. what do..?
My S4 keep crackling.. what do..? Posted on: 11.08.2013 by Cortez Hertog Hello, first of all, my english won't be perfect as im italian, second, thank you for reading and trying to help. I've just bought and installed the traktor kontrol s4 and Traktor 2 and I have serious problems: I've installed and connected everything how it has to be. When I play a song using the internal s4 audio device the problems start.. instead if I run Traktor with the internal audio device of my PC there are no problem. Guess what? To dj of course you need to use the s4 audio device so.. So now im using the s4 audio device. I've connected my Yamaha hs80m that works amazing ( I've checked the yamaha and the cables that they worked and they work) into the main 1 and main 2. I play a track and here the problems begin: The audio begin to crackle. Even If i connect with only my headphones the problem is still there. Every 5-6 seconds it crackles, it jumps, you know what im saying.. And this only if im using the s4 audio device like i said. Another problem is that Traktor the software crashes very often, especially when im chaning for example someting in the preferences. Then, when it has crashed, im not able to close the program, even if I use the task manager, I must turn off the pc and not torning off simply clicking the start and turn off. I must turn it off pressing the button for 5-6 seconds. Because if I restart the system normally and the s4 is still connected with the traktor 2 .. the pc won't turn off. I bet it is not my pc actually, because before installing traktor I had just reformatted my pc. so it was clean like a baby.. My pc is: HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC Intel Core i7 , 2.30GHz 8 GB RAM Windows 7 I've seen on the web that others have this problem, a lot because of the cpu, here I can say it is not the cpu actually because it never goes on the red.. I've also tried reinstall traktor but nothing.. I've tried change latency, turning wifi off,.. but the problem is still there. | |
| Desire Piedmont 17.08.2013 |
Originally Posted by WiTHS4UC3
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| Cortez Hertog 13.08.2013 |
Originally Posted by kooper1980
So do you believe that with my consolle is everything ok and it is just a common problem of optimization this? And another thing.. but this means that everytime I must turn off the antivirus, the sound card and ect..?! |
| Cortez Hertog 12.08.2013 |
Originally Posted by atontheproton
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| Cortez Hertog 12.08.2013 |
Originally Posted by ImNotDedYet
Regarding the crash i've searched on the web but nothing found that was for me.. |
| Cortez Hertog 11.08.2013 |
Originally Posted by kooper1980
I actually didnt know there was a featuring like that.. how can I find that script ? |
| Cortez Hertog 11.08.2013 | Hello, first of all, my english won't be perfect as im italian, second, thank you for reading and trying to help. I've just bought and installed the traktor kontrol s4 and Traktor 2 and I have serious problems: I've installed and connected everything how it has to be. When I play a song using the internal s4 audio device the problems start.. instead if I run Traktor with the internal audio device of my PC there are no problem. Guess what? To dj of course you need to use the s4 audio device so.. So now im using the s4 audio device. I've connected my Yamaha hs80m that works amazing ( I've checked the yamaha and the cables that they worked and they work) into the main 1 and main 2. I play a track and here the problems begin: The audio begin to crackle. Even If i connect with only my headphones the problem is still there. Every 5-6 seconds it crackles, it jumps, you know what im saying.. And this only if im using the s4 audio device like i said. Another problem is that Traktor the software crashes very often, especially when im chaning for example someting in the preferences. Then, when it has crashed, im not able to close the program, even if I use the task manager, I must turn off the pc and not torning off simply clicking the start and turn off. I must turn it off pressing the button for 5-6 seconds. Because if I restart the system normally and the s4 is still connected with the traktor 2 .. the pc won't turn off. I bet it is not my pc actually, because before installing traktor I had just reformatted my pc. so it was clean like a baby.. My pc is: HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC Intel Core i7 , 2.30GHz 8 GB RAM Windows 7 I've seen on the web that others have this problem, a lot because of the cpu, here I can say it is not the cpu actually because it never goes on the red.. I've also tried reinstall traktor but nothing.. I've tried change latency, turning wifi off,.. but the problem is still there. |
| Narcisa Hughie 28.09.2013 | This worked an absolute treat for me Seems Windoze tries to rest cores as often as possible which is great for everyday use as it save power but utterly useless for audio work http://www.coderbag.com/Programming-...arking-Utility |
| Lakeesha Storman 27.09.2013 | I've noticed 2.6.3 keeps setting my latency buffer size to 32 and I have to up it so the CPU load isn't so high which causes pops and crackles. 2.6.2 seemed to save my setting, but 2.6.3 doesn't want to. So everytime I start up Traktor, I have to change the setting. |
| Fannie Ohayre 27.09.2013 | Follow these instructions to the letter http://www.native-instruments.com/kn...dio+Processing |
| Cortez Hertog 15.09.2013 | Hello, im back! I've changed the s4 konsolle and now I have a new one. I've installed it following the guide and the problem guess what.. is still there. I've downloaded the LatencyMon and I detected that the problem is the ACPI.sys which is doing 10.2ms in Execution. So I guess that if I fix this it should work right? How do I fix it? I've googled but found nothing. I've tried disabling into the device manager the Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery but nothing changes (maybe i've disabled the wrong one?) Please help thank you!! |
| Kristofer Krauel 19.08.2013 | You need to find which tweaks suit your system and do these every time. But honestly I had mine to 3 or 4 things that took no more than a minute to complete. First things first though. Find what makes your system run the best. Post back your progress. |
| Desire Piedmont 17.08.2013 |
Originally Posted by WiTHS4UC3
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| Cortez Hertog 13.08.2013 |
Originally Posted by kooper1980
So do you believe that with my consolle is everything ok and it is just a common problem of optimization this? And another thing.. but this means that everytime I must turn off the antivirus, the sound card and ect..?! |
| Kristofer Krauel 12.08.2013 | Ok. First search google for 'optimising windows for audio'. This has some nice tweaks for audio settings. Here you go..... http://global.focusrite.com/answerba...dows-7?id=1071 Then take a look at this....... http://www.djranking s.com/2011/08/1...-power-script/ .... and download the script. when I had an S4 I actually narrowed my tweaks down to the following: Disable wifi adapter, turn off battery management, disable firewall. Like i said its just about finding what works for you. Good luck. |
| Cortez Hertog 12.08.2013 |
Originally Posted by atontheproton
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| Cortez Hertog 12.08.2013 |
Originally Posted by ImNotDedYet
Regarding the crash i've searched on the web but nothing found that was for me.. |
| Stephenie Liloia 12.08.2013 | http://www.native-instruments.com/fo...ad.php?t=78621 |
| Stephenie Liloia 12.08.2013 | fix your latency!!!! |
| Viva Beaulier 12.08.2013 | turning off the internet connection was the trick for me on my old laptop. no internet ment no problems using traktor. |
| Lakeesha Storman 11.08.2013 | Don't just turn off your wifi, completely disable your wireless network cards. Turning off wireless did nothing for me, but disabling the actual wireless devices from Computer Management fixed the crackling. Regarding the crash, I have no idea...There are a number of posts both here and on NI's community for performance tuning on Windows PCs. I don't have the link(s) handy, but I know they're out there. |
| Cortez Hertog 11.08.2013 |
Originally Posted by kooper1980
I actually didnt know there was a featuring like that.. how can I find that script ? |
| Kristofer Krauel 11.08.2013 | Have you tried using the S4 windows script to close ALL non-essential system programs? I also used game booster when I ran an S4 with a windows machine. The S4 issues can definitely be sorted out so dont panic, but be prepared to do a bit of tweaking to find the perfect configuration for your set up. |
| Alphonso Deitchman 11.08.2013 | What are your latency settings? |
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