What's Your Traktor Pro Preferences Load Time?

yeah that would be pretty significant news if NI thought you should only have one controller connected. It's true that multiple tsis slow things down, but they still work well together if properly configured. I try to delete tsis I'm not using at any given time - it's a pain but it saves time loading preferences.

 

I'm fairly new to Traktor but yet to see any noticeable delay with the preferences window.

I'm trying to keep up with these threads as to hopefully stay ahead of the game, so to speak...

 

Mine has always been pretty snappy, almost instant, I have a shitton of midi commands as well.

 

Jea same here, experimenting a lot with with different controller setups and I narrowed it down to the amount of controller/midi setups.

Opening the prefs is such a CPU hog too. Don't dare to open the prefs live... Just don't

Hehe, dejavu. Tracked that down too last week. Try to export your complete config, run the wizard, cancel. Flushes the conf. Now import without controllers, wohoo snappy as hell.

I could speed it up a little bit by exporting the controller settings for each and every one, and importing a previously restored config that I restored without the controller settings. And then import each controller again using the controller dialog.

 

I've definitely been having this problem for a while. I have a lot of devices separated out into different MIDI mappings, that's what seems to cause it. Basically I wanted to separate out the different aspects of my APC mapping (effects, output, etc) just to keep things clear in my head. Unfortunately this had the side effect of drastically slowing the time it took to open the preferences dialogue, which is super annoying.

Can you explain this a little bit, it's a tad unclear. Are you saying you found a workaround for this issue?

 

I hope the mapping page gets a lot of attention for the next update. Ive had a lot of trouble with it mis saving maps, they work fine when first imported, restart tractor and a ton of settings have changed. The menu for mapping is horrible. I hope it gets a good fix

 

I was gutted when I read that. Massive mistake

 

Hi,

can do, and no workaround, just a slight improvement:

I meant that I narrowed it down to the specific setting (Devices count). Exporting all settings and let the devices out, preferences opened in a blink of an eye. And second I found out that if you re-import the settings one-by-one again it's a bit snappier, but just a bit.

So what I did (I do have 9 device settings, some productive, some for debugging purposes) is:

1. Export complete settings (backup)
2. Export complete settings, but uncheck device settings (Keyboard + Controller Mappings)
3. Export each and every controller setting separately
4. Clear settings -> either delete Traktor Settings.tsi or rename (then you save step 1) or enter the setup wizard and 'pretend' to setup a new Traktor profile
5. Import backed up setting w/o the device settings
6. (check how fast it opens now, you won't believe your eyes )
7. Import each controller setting again, and watch it slow down...
8. But overall it should be a wee bit faster than before, but still cpu hogging thug

I dont' know if their base64 decoding implementation is really that slow

Another observation is that if you change the device in the devices dialog 'tab' then you have the same waiting period. Don't know if its the UI component which is stalling or before. Please guys, attach your profilers...

Hint for the devs: One quick and dirty workaround would be to interpret/read the device configs only if you change to the tab or are going to export of course, and otherwise do not load it in the meanwhile if you are just changing other settings.

And yes its a PITA...

 

Late to the party but thanks to the commenters for helping me find the cause of this weird and very annoying problem.

It's 2014 and TP 2.6 now and still the same issue! After i had just upgraded to a new mbp with fast cpu and 8gb ram if couldn't believe opening preferences still took so long. But yeah - the amount of mappings is definitely the problem. I've trimmed it down to 4 or 5 now and it opens almost in a snap, way faster than before.

NI - dropping the ball here. This is either a bug that should be fixed or coding that needs to be greatly improved.

jay

 

No f*cking way, shouldn't really be their business what you do with your controllers 0o

However, need to dig this out again, any updates for you? For me it's still as slow as it was on the first day. I somehow got used to hit but recently I described this behavior in another post and I was curious if people still experience the lags here.

'13 mba, 4 controllers but it starts getting slow even with 2 mappings already

 

Ditto. Never had that issue with ANY version. Using 2.10 now and dont have that problem at all.

 

I just had to play a gig with a Pioneer DDJ-SX2, and the official Traktor Mapping comes split into 14 separate mappings. I noticed before slowdown when opening Preferences, but this made Traktor unusable for about a minute each time I opened or closed the preferences window, or switched the Controller Manager to show a different mapping.

 

Oh yes, that was one of the controllers I also tried. They should've gone with a client application that processes all the data

 

This issue still happens, and it is definitely because of the device mappings. Remove some if you have too much and the lag is way smaller, however NI should still fix this.

 

My preferences is the same - I use a DDJ-SZ and the mapping is huge. Takes yonks to open

Mike