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DDJ-RB freezing
Hi,
Was at a gig last night and our newly bought Pioneer DDJ-RB froze about 3 or 4 times!
Both decks would stop playing and wouldn't restart for at least 5 seconds.
All the time they wouldn't play the knobs and faders were still responsive on screen.
During the test runs this hasn't happened once!
We had to change over into a back-up, cheap controller which ran all night without a hitch!
Any idea if there's an issue with the controller or a weird setting somewhere?
Running on VDJ with Windows 10. I've asked over on the VDJ forum but the response(s) are slow!
Thanks in advance.
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Hmm. That's odd!
At first I thought it was the side that was playing that just stopped (the metal top of the Pioneer seems to think you're still touching it, possibly a little moisture left on?) but for both sides to freeze and then both resume at the same time is odd, especially when one side hadn't even been touched.
Who'd thought a £80 Nurmark test run midi for home use would be better than a Pioneer costing more than twice that.
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Are there any firmware updates available for it? (Do Pioneer have those? I'm not a Pioneer user personally).
I had my Denon MC7000 go wrong before Xmas (only about it's third gig). Turns out a Mac update had some sort of clash with the internal firmware of the controller (which took Denon weeks to admit!) which caused distortion through the PA....but only after running for about 10 minutes first. It's worked perfectly in test ever since. Secretly dreading using it in the real world next week though just in case....
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Originally Posted by
Imagine
Are there any firmware updates available for it? (Do Pioneer have those? I'm not a Pioneer user personally).
I had my Denon MC7000 go wrong before Xmas (only about it's third gig). Turns out a Mac update had some sort of clash with the internal firmware of the controller (which took Denon weeks to admit!) which caused distortion through the PA....but only after running for about 10 minutes first. It's worked perfectly in test ever since. Secretly dreading using it in the real world next week though just in case....
Not that I'm aware of, the only time the laptop and controller has been online is when installing the latest versions (VDJ, Rekordbox and the DDJ-RB pack).
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If the midi side of the controller is responsive, but the sound side has stopped, it usually means the USB sound card has run out of data because the PC can't get data to it fast enough....
Sometimes caused by noise on the USB cables (e.g. smoke machine) sometimes by something else taking over the CPU (or firmware/software clashes), preventing the software from getting data out the USB port fast enough. Usually fixed by pushing up latency in config somewhere (i.e. giving the controller a larger buffer to use before it runs out) and if it's noise on the cable, by adding ferrite cores to the USB cables.
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Originally Posted by
DJ Jules
Sometimes caused by noise on the USB cables (e.g. smoke machine).
Even if it's not connected in anyway?
We did use a smoke machine at this gig.
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Try a different power extension lead. Had the same problem recently and it was the 4 way that by laptop was plugged into, I nwas getting 4 or 5 freezes a night. Experimenting, the 4 way that caused the problem was an expensive one with a powerbreaker in it. Changed it for a cheap one and no problems since.
When you test it with no problems are you using the same leads with the same things plugged in it? e.g laptop, lights, etc or just using plug socket at home?
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Originally Posted by
AndyMD
Try a different power extension lead. Had the same problem recently and it was the 4 way that by laptop was plugged into, I nwas getting 4 or 5 freezes a night. Experimenting, the 4 way that caused the problem was an expensive one with a powerbreaker in it. Changed it for a cheap one and no problems since.
When you test it with no problems are you using the same leads with the same things plugged in it? e.g laptop, lights, etc or just using plug socket at home?
Just been at home on it's own so far. Will have to try the full rig before our next gig.
The strange thing is it didn't do it on the cheap Numark controller, maybe requires less power and avoids the smoke surge?
Thinking back when we took over a Wedding last Summer for some friends we knew (The DJ was a relation so had a break to see them) when we used the smoke machine the Pioneer cut out then (all in one 4 channel controller).
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I wasn't running smoke either, which made it harder to pin down what it was. I went through usb leads, different leads for my DMX controller as that was plugged in and then it finally dawned on me it was the thing everything was plugged in to, the 4 way
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