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lol, had to log in again just to read your reply! safari on a mac, maybe the server is racist?

hey guys, i'm still getting logged out occasionally, it's pretty random too... sometimes I can be following a link from email and it asks me to log in, sometimes I am writing a reply to a post, press submit, and it asks me to long in again. sometimes it even logs in and forgets what I was going to post. Not a biggy but pretty frustrated. did all the things mitch recommended above. how often should I do those coz it hasnt been long?

^ fark, i remember that thread now. top idea jaz, make it work pls

^ thats a teaching aid i use nearly everyday to get kids to understand beats and bars. who needs 5 anyway lol

lol... just got me thinking: the djs alphabet only has 3 letters and we can only count up to 4. brothers in derp

try switching the "mic in" to a "line in" if you can, they have different amounts of gain applied to them.

yer man what source said. I never put anyone down if i can help it. I still keep things as straight forward as i can but am a bit messed in the head so sometimes things dont come out quite right djm 3000 is a classic mixer, bit dated function-wise but has good sound quality and is built like a brick shithouse. Was often found in clubs as an installation mixer before everyone started wanting djm 600s.

JAZ SUBY BIG UP

wow, i never would have expected that. It's amazing what little differences exist between platforms, and you'll never know about them until you try them...

great response guys, and i dont feel too dumb for asking now I do want to avoid the laptop. If i were to take that I would take my NS6. Thing is I really really enjoyed the cdj platters again, and there are a pair of them there, seems a waste not to use them.... Which leads me on to the next dumb q: I guess the midi support on the CDJ900 relies on a laptop too then? I'm wondering if there is anyway you can plug a controller (i.e. novation dicer/traktor x1) str8 into the cdj900 (without laptop at all) and get it to work? And yes I expect a whole heap of replies saying "no jim, not without the software" but it's worth asking...

^nice post Jaz. I prefer to use hotcues as a kind of sampler though. i.e. I set 3 before I've even begun playing a track and juggle with them, use them like drum machine pads, or use them jump to entirely dif tracks on the cd. I dont think your semi-hot-cues would be able to cope with that. but worthy for what you are doing with them

Had my first go on cdj 900s this weekend. used USB sticks. I could only find auto loops though... does this unit have hot cue capability? was I being really dumb? (had been drinking) and yes I searched the forum for key words "CDJ900" and "hot cues" but no clear answer came up I could see so sorry if this is a dumb q.

Wow what made you move to UK instead of Singapore? lol, my dad was working in construction, we left when I was 6 months old so I didnt really have much choice... British passport = british citizen, if I'd have had the singapore passport I'd have had to do national service and my parents were hippies so the decision was a no brainer for them... I have my own family now and am trying to get back down to the tropics again mad bz this week tho mate, will try have a listen to ya mix but no promises.

no cluckin furries boss. Had a dope weekend at proper opening of new venue... will post pics when they get sorted... also discovered something called facebook a little

^ cheers guys, no time to devote to my backup rig this week but will follow these steps when can. propz.

great work Mitch, who needs stereo anyway

better late than never... ez

ez. i was born in singapore and went back for my 21st birthday... but that was 16 years ago. I bet it's even more expensive now! am in uk now so cant help you find gigs in perth, can wish you good luck tho bro big up.

ez

voted had to enter personal details ... it'd be funny if they tried the mobile number I posted... cost them a penny too ey? big up swiss

interesting... It did all used to work nice and yes I am always plugging NI8 usb into sameport. but I have trusted updates without checking forums... I never had any issues with traktro scratch Pro in 5 years so was trusting them... can you let me know which driver version you have for your NI8 and what version traktor you use please eggs? I may try a rollback.

I now have a mac and NS6 for mobile gigs and all is well. I still have a dell inspiron running traktor via an NI8 for teaching lessons and backup etc.. I did have the dell running tickety boo following some great tune up advice from wazza: viewtopic.php?f=48&t=5026 ...unfortunately I find that I need to run the tune up again after each windows update or traktor update or NI8 driver update. and for a while now everytime I plug in my NI8 it is recognised as new hardware, I have to let windows wizard run each time and yet I still get major dropouts... Then I discovered (by chance) that once I have let windows hardware wizard run and once the NI8 is recognised... if I then disable and then re-enable the internal soundcard in the device manager - it sorts the latency out... WTF? I still get a latency peak according to the dsp latency checker of about 5613nanoseconds at a frequency of about one per hour.... so it's not perfect anwyay... but I feel there is something wrong ey? Why would it need to recognise the NI8 everytime? why would I need to mess with the internal soundcard in the device manager each time? I would understand if i had to disable the internal soundcard but this doesnt help. The only thing that gets it to work is to switch the internal soundcard on and off again once everything else is up and running.... Must be some conflict there surely? Anyone know of anything else I can do or do i have to go through all these steps just to boot up from now on?

dope mix street, lovin the use of vox samples to change it up. and the old skool style of just braking a tune and dropping the next one occasionally instead of doing all convoluted beat-mixes... great feel over the course of the 25 min, great musical variation and good originality throughout mate. propz.

When I'm playing live I always follow a simple rule: If i'm not sure it's going to work I wait. Better to just start/stop tracks at the end than do a dodgy mix. Of course I aint saying you should do that now as you are looking for feedback on ideas and experiments... just backing up your realisation that waiting is always an option too.

yer mattus, like slippy i thought you had the sync button on until I heard a few slips later on. I also agree a little thought and practise at when to start one song in relation to the one that is already playing would be good. I recommend listening to your own mix above and really thinking: "what if i had started that one 2 or 4 bars later or earlier... where would the break and drop have fallen in relation to each other," eg the mix at about 10.30... the tune you are turning down was just about to kick off but you mixed it across to the build up of the next tune... Had you lined up the phrases you may have found you could fade out the first track just as the second song was about to break to vox which may have maintained the energy across the transition? I dont know if this would work in this case, it's a theory to consider. also at about 15.30 the tune coming in is faded up over the other tune. The break falls nice but during the fade up you have two arpeggios playing which are not sounding great together... why not try just dropping str8 t the break in the same place but without the fade up 1st? again it's only theory, may sound rubbish when you try it, may drop like a bomb! Overall though you got it going on, just listen to your own mix and be critical and reflective, then redo it and see if the changes made it better or worse.. you got the matching down (mostly), it's trial and error time to see how they fit together best