? For instance, 2 sound cards that I've seen good reviews on are from Native Instruments, Audio 6 and Audio 8. But I don't know if all sound cards are compatible or work well with Virtual DJ. I was thinking on spending around the range of 100-220 euro. To solve this problem, I was thinking of buying an external sound card and use it instead of my Controller whenever there is a space problem at a Gig, I'll need one anyway for other reasons. ! The problem is that in some venues, there isn't enough space for a MIDI Controller, either because the DJ booths are to small or because there are many DJs playing with there own equipment and there isn't enough space. The controller has good functionality and amazing built quality. I’m thinking this may be only an Ableton problem though – I’ve started using Traktor 3 and so far I’ve had zero problems with the sound no matter what I throw at it! This makes me happy.Ever since I bought V DJ I've been using the controller Hercules RMX 2, which has great sound quality do to the sound card that it has inside (24bit/96kHz).
UPDATE: Thanks for the suggestions guys! Updating the firmware did help a bit, though I still get some problems in Ableton Live when I’m playing too many tracks at once. Is anyone else having these problems? Does anyone have fix suggestions? Its a shame such a potentially great peace of hardware is plagued with these kind of stability problems.Īnyway, thanks for your feedback, and I hope you rock the party on Saturday! I’m actually thinking about getting another dedicated audio interface and using the RMX as just a MIDI control surface since I like the layout so much.
However, these issues really detract from the value of the RMX as playing in a real club situation with these problems could be disastrous. Luckily I’m mostly just playing house parties for my friends though and they’re usually too drunk to care / notice. Turn off any unnecessary background processesĮven with these fixes though I still run into trouble sometimes.In task manager, set the priority for my music app to “real time’.Here are some things I’ve done to reduce the frequency of these dropouts – I’m not sure if its the interface’s fault or some background process I have running on XP thats making my CPU chug… either way it sucks. Sometimes the interface will work fine for an hour then start slowing down and stuttering for a while. Yeah, the skipping thing is a bitch, its actually been annoying me a lot lately. How did you get to fix yours exactly? I’m asked to play for a small group of friends this Saturday and I would hate for them to hear all the clicking when I’m playing.Īny help is appreciated! Thank you in advance, J!ĭJ Bones (haaaa! the name is funny but it stuck, I’m way skinny that’s why) Finally got it to work, with all the cables and stuff you know, but my question is, you mentioned that when you played your music, you heard clicking and skipping.
I just got this myself and figuring out how to put it all together. Nice review! Thank you, it was very in-depth and helpful. Recently one of my readers sent me a question which illustrates this – below is that email and my response.
Don’t get me wrong – I still think its a great piece of hardware – its just there have been some performance issues I haven’t been able to get rid of that have really decreased its value in my eyse. I just picked up an MPK49 so a review may be forthcoming if I ever get around to it…Īnyway, in regards to the review I may have to revise my opinion a bit after having spent quite some time with the thing. Its nice to know people are appreciating the stuff I’ve written, and it makes me want to write more now that I have some semblance of an audience. I had no idea when I wrote it that so many people would be reading it – I think that article alone has basically quadrupled my blog traffic! (not that there was very much traffic to begin with, haha). First of all, I’d like to thank all the readers and commenters for taking an interest in my Hercules RMX review.