Traktor 3LE Sound clicks and Jog wheel problem-?

Hi. I am using Traktor LE with the VCI-100. I have two problems. The most disturbing problem was that the right-hand jog wheel was not performing correctly. It would not grab the track properly and there was a lot of "slippage". At its worst, I would back track the wheel and the track would still play forward. However, when I used the jog wheel in non-vinyl mode, it was obviously reacting and tracking properly, so I figured it wasn't a hardware problem. I have since re-installed with the Traktor LE version that came on the bundled CD. That seems to have solved the jog wheel issue, although I was using an update before and everything worked fine. Are there different update versions? In the Service Center only one is visible.

My second problem is this clicking noise that appears in the playing tracks every now and then. I have an interesting sound configuration, and although it worked fine before, I have since re-formatted, and there is now this clicking noise that I can't track down. It almost sounds like a scratch on a record, showing up in a short repetitive cycle. It appears on either A or B deck. I don't think it is audio clipping as I have experimented with bringing levels down all over the place, plus it just doesn't seem to happen at the right times to be clipping.

Has anyone encountered this or does anyone have any tips?

Thanks

 

solved sound, still can't figure out VCI 100 jog wheel

I solved the sound issue by using DPC latency checker and going into device drivers and disabling things one by one. It turns out it was the cd/dvd drive. DELL laptops with the TSSTcorp DVD+-RW TS-L632D have a couple of issues, I've noticed.

The right-hand jog wheel still doesn't grab the track when I use the latest update version of T3 LE. It acts like it wants to, but it never really works. I can't figure that one out. Luckily, it works in TS Pro, which I will be using from now on.

 

Yes I am getting these sounds clicks too?

I have no idea how to check this?

What is DPC Checker?

 

DPC checker is this little program you can d/l for free and watch a real time graphic of your latency activity. When the sound clicks would occur, I could see spikes in the graph. I went to Device Manager (right click on "my computer", click "properties", click the "hardware" tab, and then the "device manager" button) and started disabling the likely candidates for problems, which, according to another thread ("crackly soundz", I believe), are ACPI battery utility, any WLAN (wireless network) utilities, and on my system, my CD-ROM drive. As I disabled these while a track was playing in Traktor, I could watch the effects on my system, and eventually had the graph on DPC staying in the green, and no crackles. Even without DPC checker, you can try disabling these types of devices first, and see one by one which affects your sound. Before you try disabling other devices, make sure you know what they are. The three I listed are OK and your comp will run ok without, but don't, you know, disable your hard disk or something...

 

Hey thank you for your help-makes sense!

I'll give that a go

Thanks

Brad
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Ok turns out that its the WiFi, soon as I turned it off-all the functions on the Omni Control have better response and NO crackling!

Happy days!

Brad