Apologies in advance for the long post. I had peculiar things happen at my last 2 gigs (literally 2 days ago and yesterday) while using dJay Pro 5 with my Reloop Mixon 8, which I need to detail in order to explain the problem.
Friday, 12/8/23
At some point during the event (after playing for about 3 hrs), I momentarily lost control of deck 2. I could not play the track, either using my Mixon or clicking the play button. This happened for several seconds, and then resolved itself. It was concerning at the time, but (thankfully) it didn’t affect my set, so I just kept going.
Saturday, 12/9/23
About 40 mins to the end of a 4-hr wedding reception, the following happened (in this order):
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Tracks would not load on deck 2. Even instant doubles didn’t work. It took a couple of tries before it worked.
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All 4 decks suddenly stopped playing. I could load tracks in, but I couldn’t play anything. I tried other USB ports on my laptop, switched out the USB cable, tried ports A & B on my controller … still nothing. Music died mid-track while the dancefloor was popping. Horrifying!
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I restarted the controller, restarted dJay, closed all other running applications, and was able to play … for about 2 mins, then it happened again - no music, no control.
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I switched to playing music on my phone via Bluetooth, I then restarted both laptop & controller, after that, everything worked perfectly till the end of the reception.
Here are a few more things to note:
- Issues happened after upgrading dJay Pro to version 5. I used dJay v4 many many times before (once with the Mixon 8, all other times with my Pioneer DDJ-1000SRT) and never had any of these issues
- I use a 2017 Macbook Pro - 16GB memory, 1TB SSD (about 195GB free)
Any tips / advice on this would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
