Anyone with a 2019 intel i7 Macbook Pro having performance issues?

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Macbook Pro 2019 intel i7 16Gigs RAM
macOS 15.7.1 running djay v5.5 with Hercules T7

I use an external Samsung T7 SSD, Hercules T7 with USB chroma cables and djay works perfectly at the beginning of a set, but after about 1-2 hours of gigging, things begin to get really sluggish to the point I can hardly use cue-drumming at ease. Cues aren’t snappy. Quantize is unreliable too (especially if I am a tad-bit late on-beat, and it will wait an entire beat to kick in. Couldn’t use crossfader effects! Turning on crossfader effects actually starts to glitch the sound and the app behaves as if it wants to hang (but doesn’t). Everything lacks snappiness from then on - cueing a song doesn’t snap on time even when I am spot on.

I need someone using the same laptop to tell me it’s my specs, or that something else is amiss. @DJ_Big_Blender have you moved on from intel yet? Got any workarounds?
My laptop wasn’t thermal-throttling as it was a cool day and the laptop stand has a built-in cooling fans too. On serato I can gig for hours and this never happens on the same setup.

Please help!

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Hi @Armigo,

  1. Are you using iCloud Sync in djay? If so, can you please check the status in the djay Settings>Advanced>iCloud Syncing section?
  2. Are you using an aggregate audio device setup on your Mac (splitting the audio output between two devices)?
  3. If you disable Key Lock does it help?
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Hi @Slak_Jaw

Last all the while till the day of gig, I had always disabled icloud sync completely for djay (message on that tab setting said at the time “icloud account not set up”. After the messy gig, and following this post, a user asked me to try and turn it on and let it sync and try again. So right now I have it in “Active” state and syncs all the time I launch. I am waiting for a gig to try it in this state and report.

No aggregate audi device set up - everything goes via the hercules only

I forgot to try turning off keylock last time, but next time I have a long gig and it happens, I will…and report back

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Also be sure to check DJAY’s (and other) memory usage and activity periodically if you want to find out more.

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Thanks for the follow up @Armigo, now that iCloud is enabled again, please follow the process below to reset the iCloud state:

  1. Quit djay.
  2. Make sure you have a backup of your djay Media Library.djayMediaLibrary file on an external drive or in the cloud.
  3. If you have previously disabled iCloud for djay Pro in System settings, please make sure it is re-enabled for djay Pro. https://help.algoriddim.com/hc/en-us/articles/360014702832-How-do-I-enable-iCloud-syncing-on-iOS-and-macOS
  4. Open the app Terminal.app
  5. Run this command: defaults write com.algoriddim.djay-iphone-free CMCResetCloudKitState -bool true
  6. Launch djay

This will reset the cloudkit state and should clear up the issue. After this, it’s recommended that you leave iCloud sync for djay enabled to prevent caching of Cloudkit and the growth of the djay Media Library.

  1. Please refer to the second half of the linked FAQ for how to enable iCloud Syncing on macOS: https://help.algoriddim.com/hc/en-us/articles/360014702832-How-do-I-enable-iCloud-syncing-on-iOS-and-macOS
  2. Please note, if you decide you want to keep iCloud Sync turned Off going forward, you will need to perform the above process on a semi-regular basis as your database size grows over time. Alternatively, you can keep iCloud Sync On and the cache will be automatically cleared on its own.