Hey guys,
Thank you for your responses. Normally, I would agree with y’all on each of your points, but I have recently tried numerous solutions. So to answer each of your questions……
1. Temperature: I shouldn’t be having temperature issues with a 6 month old laptop. Nevertheless, I have tried blowing out the dust, as well as using my old laptop. The reason I threw down more money for a new laptop in the first place was because I felt it was a processing power and hard drive issue. Obviously, I know now that is not the case, as it happened with the old and new laptop.
2. Set-up: I have exported my settings after both tweaking the volume and setting up a Tekken F1 Mapping (which thinking about it may be the reason it is becoming glitchy) as well as the 4 – Trak. I have the same procedure of setting up my laptop every time,but I can recheck these settings and get back to you on that.
Also, I have heard in the past that a external hard drive might take stress off the internal drive and decrease the CPU load. I have done it before and that has worked fine. I might need to start redoing that, but I felt with a brand new laptop a 5600 rpm should be able to easily handle the equipment and the load. Maybe I need to bring the settings down to a slow CPU settings, even though the new processor is in the top 10 laptop processors.
Marco: definitely know its not me. I have been using Traktor for 4 years. Normally, without doing anything too crazy (just fading from one song to another), Traktor doesn’t break. But when you are scratching, need high latency, are using the cpu to process sound, trying to scratch, and all the while doing that activating effects on your F1 controller with a custom mapping, stress on the system is rather high. Scratching causes high stress on a CPU, as well as effects. Also, long sets heat up the laptop, which that is understandable.
But lets assume my set-up is correct, that I need to recheck and experiment with. What are the best ways for keeping your laptop and system cool during a set? Especially when you are in a hot and sweaty club. Thank you for the responses, I have really appreciated it! Let me know if anyone else comes up with ideas!
Cody Chesneau
DJ Echobreaker
