I have been having some random USB dropouts or something while playing with my DDJ-S1. My gigs are usually 4.5 hours long and during that time I typically get 0-5 dropouts that last for less than a second. I have learned to live with this, though it still is very disappointing and ridiculous to see stuff like this happen with brand new hardware and software. I never got a single dropout when I used SL-3 weekly for a couple of years.
However, a much bigger problem has surfaced. It has happened thrice now. Last time was a couple of months ago and now it has happened twice in a week. The output sound becomes highly distorted, all the low frequencies are gone. Its a bit hard to describe, but it sounds a bit like the song was played from a speaker of a cellphone from the nineties. Very lo-fi and very distorted. The only way I have been able to resolve this issue is to quickly turn off the power on the controller and then turn it back on. This takes some seconds, and let me tell you those seconds feel long in a club full of people watching me as I want to hide under the table.
I have no idea what could cause this, and it has happened so few times I cannot find a way to make it happen again so that I could sample the sound or try different solutions when at home and not on a gig. The only thing I am quite certain of is, that every time it happened both decks were playing and one of the lines was open while the other one closed. I haven't been able to gather any more information because when this happens my highest priority is to get the sound output fixed, not to document the event that should not happen in the first place.
I have to say that before these issues are resolved I am currently very disappointed in my decision to buy this controller and start using it on gigs instead of SL-3.
Some additional info:
My computer is late 2007 MBP model
Mac OS X version 10.6.8
2.4GHz Core 2 Duo
4GB of DDR2 at 667MHz
I don't run any other software while performing. Airport is usually off. I cannot say if it has been off every time this has happened, but I know I haven't been connected to any wireless networks.
The only other thing I use simultaneously with ITCH is the Mac OS X stickies widget that I use to write down song requests.
Itch version 2.2.0
Controller firmware seems to be up to date
Buffer size 256
Hifi resampler on
Auto gain on
Screen update at 60fps
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All things being equal (I had the same problem with my Denon SC2900s and Mixvibes a while ago), the only thing that really could cause distortion like that, without a hardware cause, is latency really. My Denons would play nicely for 5 minutes or half an hour and then one or both would start distorting like crazy (awful sound). I ended up setting a higher latency factor and the problem was solved. So it pays to experiment with that.
Question: did the tracks sound distorted in your headphones in cue mode? If that is the case, you can discount anything happening post-fader (like the PA).
Something else to test, when you experience distortion, hook up your iPhone or iPod or any other mp3 player to the aux/line input of the controller and run some music through the standalone side of things. This too will help pinpoint the source of the distortion. If it’s the PA it will sound distorted too, if it’s the controller (hardware) it wil sound distorted too (you can try it on one of the channels that you use for the Serato decks normally too, just to exclude them), if it’s the PC/Serato, it will sound fine.
2 things you should check:
IS the master in the software set to high?
Is the software gain set too high? (check the software VU meter at the top of the Serato window)
Also there is a red dot beside the software VU meter, if this is in the red then your software gain is too high.Additionally what could be the problem is the input of the house mixer or pre-amp of the PA system. Those usually have a switch from Line to phono (record decks) and are mostly on phono (record decks) as most CDJs also can output at phono level.
Also some PA systems cannot handle to high of an input so you might have to throttle down the master out of your SX and compensate on the PA.My guess would be more in the line of: He did something to the mix when he brought in the Mics for the speeches and never reverted the settings that influenced your settings. PA and mixing PA sounds together is a delicate thing and different channel settings can do stuff. For example he could have cranked the master in some way and re-did some gain settings that overcompressed your channels -> distortion.
So my guess after telling me this is that your signal path was fine.
The SX getting hot is VERY unlikely unless it is a faulty unit and that should actually sound distorted all the time.
I played for 2 hours with an SX with a 2000W stage light aimed at the SX and it did fine for 2 hours straight (I had to get my laptop out of range though hehe).- Posts
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