DJay Pro 2 - Unreliable

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I have been a heavy user of DJayPro and DJay Pro2 for over a year and I just wish it was more reliable and more stable.

I own a MacBook Pro (latest), I use USB-C to USB-B cable (no dongles), I keep my DJayPro software updated and STILL, it is not stable as Serato is.

I am very used to DJay Pro2 and I love it, but when I am in a stage with a huge crowd, I panic when I see the DJay Pro2 screen freezing or the responses are delayed (I press play and it takes 2 sec to play, I load something, it takes 10 sec to load, etc.)

I just wish I could be sure the Algoridimm will not let me down again (as It has done in the past).

If there is a guide on what to do, what hardware to use, I will definitely consider using it!

Besides the unstable, delays and freezing of the software, there are a few extras issues I can point it out:

With Pioneer CDJ 2000:
1- Semi-Frozen state: as soon as I load the track, it starts playing the track (by itself) at a very, very, very low speed, not letting me play the track, neither to load another one! It just kind of freeze the deck.
2- Switching and Flickering: each time I switch from the “Link mode” to “USB mode” on the CDJ, the music stops for a short second.

With the Pioneer DDJ-SX2 controller:
1- Limiters: The channels (pre-set by the software) are often not reaching the green light, but the main is peaking on red. That must be something with the internal calibration of the software, loading too little on the channel and overloading the main output.
2- Cue points: often the lights on the pads don’t light up.
2- Samples: never the colours on the pads reflect the selected colour for the sample
3- Samples: I have 2 sections of 8 pads on my controller (2 rows of 4 each side), but I can load only 6 samples on each by DJay Pro, so It gets unsequential and a couple of them end up blank.
(this last 2 issues combined, make hard to figure out which sample is which when you are to use them on the night)

Those are the issues I could remember now, but of Algoriddim is willing to look at them, I am willing to keep reporting them.

Please, let me know.

DJ NOVI @ NOVA DJs
marketing@novadjs.com.au

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Hi Renato,

thank you for your post.

Are you able to reproduce the issue? Can you send us an exemplary video of the issue via support@algoriddim.com?

Thank you in advance.

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One more “possible issue”… (not sure yet).
But I have the feeling (to be confirmed) sometimes, when I am playing some tracks from Spotify, even if the song is already loaded and the internet drops, the song crashes!

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One more “possible issue”… (not sure yet).
But I have the feeling (to be confirmed) sometimes, when I am playing some tracks from Spotify, even if the song is already loaded and the internet drops, the song crashes!

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Is that a real question or just a template?

More than half of the issues I reported are CONSTANT… so, all you have to do is to get a DDJ SX2 and you will see them.

The other half, the sporadic ones, of course, I cannot reproduce the problem, as they occur once on a while.

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You own a lab test, not me… How do you expect me to reproduce the issue and record it? They will occur when I am playing from time to time, but at that moment, the 1st thing I have to do it to work around the problem, and the last one would be to find a way to record the issue.

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