Thinking about buying a Kontrol 1

I have 24 hours to make my mind up about buying one of these units but so far all the negative feedbacks is not giving me much confidence, I see that there is a lot of incompatible issues with pcs/laptops, crackling/buzzing sounds coming from this unit. I'm planning to be using this on a Dell 820, have most of the bugs been ironed out?

 

Welcome =)

You have to remember that the people who aren't having issues won't be posting in the forum.

ew

 

The most problems with AK1 concerns Mac laptops - and it's not NI's fault, but result of the very poor power managment in Macbooks (usb ports shares energy with built-in camera, bluetooth module and wifi module).
Pay attention to fact that this whole AK1 forum is one page only with relatively small amount of posts - if AK1 is so problematic,it will be plenty of heart-breaking posts etc.

By the way, I'll be happy if anybody answers my questions in neighbouring topic

 

Ah- the AK 1 forum's actually 19 pages, with another 4 pages under technical issues.

I'd guess you have last 30 days for your choice of posts...

ew

 

Holy s..t! sorry for misinformation. I see only 20 of 20 threads

 

Well that was weird, the forum wouldn't accept my password. Anyway thanks for the welcome ew

You know I was thinking the same thing about ppl not writing in WHEN it works, but seeing all the negativity is disconcerting .

I also wanted to ask is the the suitability, I initially wanted to have just a simple 2 x stereo master/monitor output from my laptop, so I looked at the Novation Nio, then I did some more digging and realised you can be more hands on with Traktor 3 but using Kontrol 1, for me this is a bonus, but I'll only be using it to dj from a laptop, do you think this would be suitable for me and not overkill or should I just got for a Audio4 DJ?

 

My AK1 has never died on me. It's a tank. Big knob (that I don't use at all) stays safe too.

 

Me too I'm musing on AK1 but 1/ I run Vista HP64bit and 2/ There's a voucher letting the buyer choose a synth, but I bought the Komplete Synth Bundle and I already have all four.

I wound need a confirmation that AK1 works under Vista HP 64 bit on a Q9450 machine with 4GB Ram with lots of space on a single sata drive.
Then I could contact NI and ask for some other voucher...

 

Using AK1

Hi,

Im also thinking of getting said interface. I use only software instruments, but I am wondering if it would improve playback sound quality, general audio processing, under Mac OS X leopard. I have the most recent iMac 2.8 Ghz Intel Duo. I would only use interface to sample small bits of audio for my drum sampler.

 

GO FOR IT!
I think for the money it is really the best sounding card, MIDI in/out, midi assign, 4 outs, very flexible and compact, built like a tank and the best feature is it sounds GREAT.
what more can i say?

 

I went with the AK1 because I can see myself needing to hook up a mic now and then. The other plus was the large software bundle.

The 4DJ seems to have a nicer LED setup and a slightly lower price.

I am not sure about the internals. 4DJ definitely inherits a lot of tech form the 8DJ .. not sure about the AK1

 

Both the 8DJ and 4DJ are spinoffs of the AK 1. As far as I know, besides the different in/out configs, they're exactly the same hardware wise.

ew

 

So both the Audio 4 and AK1 are virtually the same with the 4 having an extra two inputs? I just bought the AK1 (its above average excellent for production) though its not able to have four decks running on an external mixer due to the limited I/O? is this correct. And wont the same apply with the Audio 4? In other words to have four decks with each deck assigned to a channel on a 4 channel mixer i need the Audio 8.

Any help would be excellent, as i have just bought it, and i may still be able to exchange for either an Audio 4 or pay extra and get the Audio8.

Thanks in advance!

 

The AK 1 uses 1/4" jacks, has a built in XLR input and can go up to 192k/24 bit for a sampling rate.

The Audio4 just has RCA ins and outs (4 of each) and can go up to a 96k/24 bit sampling rate.

The Audio8 has RCA ins and outs (8 of each) plus an XLR mic input,. Once again, it's 96k/24 bit.

ew

 

Aha, thanks ew, that’s exactly what I wanted to know man. So it seems the Audio 1 is still the MVP sound card for quality and midi inputs, hmm it would be sweet to have and Audio Kontrol 4 or 8! Thanks again man!

 

Go for it. Ive gone through a number of different soundcards and this is by far the best. It sounds absolutely great and I can switch between my laptop and main PC seemlessly.
I had some issues setting up, but now its set up it works very reliably.

The only downside I can see is that you have to switch your speakers off every time the PC boots up and down. I wish the AK1 had some protection cirtcuity as other cards have. But that said, you get used to the rigour. As a small niggle its well worth it.