Serato Scratch Live Audio Glitches
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What settings should I use for buffer size in both applications? Both Scratch Live and Ableton Live offer the ability to adjust audio latency to get trouble free audio playback. You may need to adjust one or both of these to get a good balance. Sep 15, 2016 How To Fix Glitches & Audio Dropouts in Serato. Statis spends this vlog installment attempting to fix the issues he encountered at a club the other night on his mac where the audio started. Dec 07, 2017 Serato is rock solid with a buffer size of 64 samples whereas RB, even with the standard 256 samples setting, gives me random nasty audio dropouts/glitches. Also the pads on the DDJ-SX have way more latency and are less touch sensitive when running RB. Scratch Live 2.5 comes with FREE samples from Loopmasters. Get 24 of the best Beats, Hits, Loops and Sweeps, free to you when you download the Loopmasters sample content installer. Download the sample content from within the Scratch Live 2.5 download and the samples will install straight to your Serato library as a crate. For more information on how to get the sample content have a read of this.
Mar 26, 2015 Home › Forums › DJing Software › Serato Popping and Crackaling? This topic contains 14 replies, has 6 voices, and was last updated by deathy 5 years ago. Viewing 15 posts - 1 through 15 (of 15 total) Author Posts March 24, 2015 at 6:18 pm #2162021 Dom JamesParticipant Afternoon guys, Have a bit of Continued. In Serato: Fundamentals, DJ Hapa will help you get acquainted with the Serato interface so you can navigate this powerful system. Hapa is a veteran Scratch DJ Academy instructor and in this beginner-friendly class, he’ll show you the basics of DJ’ing using the Serato interface.
Have you got anything intensive running in the background? Or anything that could be eating up your system resources?
Scratch live download pc. (Click ”Save As” if using Firefox). Follow on-screen directions for installation. Click “Run”. Click “Run” Again.
If the CPU maxes out, it could cause the sort of glitches you are talking about.
What kind of specs (and which OS) does your computer have??
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Hi Dom,
A few more thoughts:
Do you have the latest drivers installed for your controller/soundcard? Did you install the drivers with the controller/soundcard plugged in? Do you always plug in into the same USB socket?
Your specs sound fine though. And I hope that you have disabled your internet connection if you have uninstalled your antivirus. Try installing CCleaner and cleaning out the user? I run it on all the users on all my PCs at least once a month and it keeps them nice and fast.
Is it your entire PC that is feeling a bit slow or is it just that Serato is playing up? I’m not a serato expert (I don’t use it myself and never have) but is the sample rate set correctly for your sound card? It may also be worth checking that Windows is not trying to use the soundcard as it’s default audio device – this should not be the case as your soundcard/controller should use ASIO drivers work with serato properly, and windows overrides ASIO drivers if it decides that the controller should be default, as it then likes to use its own drivers for this purpose. To put it simpler, it can cause all sorts of issues if your controller is set to be the default sound output. Not least that windows can then play sounds through your speakers. Ever got an email half way through a gig? Not cool if your laptop announces thta fact to all your dancers for you, at incredible volume. 🙂
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Read the original post 🙂
He’s already done that… 😉
Are you running lots of stuff stacked (i.e. many tracks together with all the basses up) and/or many things like big bpm/key differences or FX?
I don’t understand your point about the SX2 being a stand-alone mixer so it shouldn’t happen though?
Check your output levels in the software, it might be possible to you are running too high a signal into the soundcard that is clipped already in which case it will be audible.
I had the same problem with Mixvibes Cross and my DDJ-SX. The output settings for monitor and master in the software were all set totally wrong. I noticed when trying to mix in an analogue CD with a track from Cross on two different channels. The odd thing is that I had BOTH tracks at the same gain on the controller, both firing away at 0dB average. So while it LOOKED like they should be the same loudness, they weren’t. I ended up 0dB-ing my setup with a CD playing (all the way up to and including the master output level) and then repeating the process for the Cross track, adjusting the master output setting until channel gain 0dB matched the main level 0dB. Now all is in perfect harmony and no distortion.
This sounds like its either
1) Redlining. Serato starts clipping immediately when you go to red on software. The controller (and the audio interface within) has another layer for gain controls, so while the leds on your controller might be ok, the initial signal is too high.
2) The settings on your laptop are not set correctly. Go to Control Panel -> System -> Additional settings (I’m guessing this one by translating from Finnish system). From there the Performance page and Optimize the performance to background services (audio is considered a background service).
If this isn’t a gain/volume problem then turn your WiFi/Bluetooth off, make sure you don’t have anything but your related dj equipment plugged in, make sure you don’t have any disabled drivers.
Another thing you may have a grounding problem. Something may need to be grounded or not grounded.
- This reply was modified 5 years ago by Dj Emazing. Reason: missed a word
- This reply was modified 5 years ago by Dj Emazing.
It is not clear from the OP… you say you decreased your latency, but did you try increasing it?
Deathy – he says “decreased” but also says he changed it from 5 to 20. so I took that to mean that he increased it 😉
I read it to mean he tried decreasing it by that range of value, which is why I asked my question just to clarify.
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So Serato has released Serato Scratch Live (SSL) 2.4.4, a maintenance upgrade to fix some bugs and glitches. Serato Scratch Live is for digital vinyl users of course, as opposed to Serato DJ which is for controller users, but what caught my attention is that in the publicity material, Serato is showing the software with the waveforms horizontally, not vertically.
Why is this significant? Because SSL was always by default presented with two vertical waveforms on the screen. But now, Serato is pushing the horizontal look for SSL, while at the same time Serato DJ is a big step towards the look and feel of SSL over its predecessor, Serato ITCH (like SSL, Serato DJ has counters in the “decks”, coloured cues on screen in the same place, a similar waveform view….). It all begs the question: When are the two softwares going to merge?
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I don’t think anyone’s in any doubt that they are (Serato hinted as much in the original Serato DJ press release), but it definitely looks to me like the company is smoothing the way for this to happen now. So if the software becomes one, what will that mean for hardware and the exclusivity relationship between Rane and Serato when it comes to digital vinyl?
Will we see other manufacturers allowed to offer digital vinyl control of Serato software, or licensed to build scratch-compatible audio interfaces into their gear? I have no inside info on this, and so we’ll just have to wait and see… but whenever it comes, it’s my view that such a move will only strengthen Serato’s offering in the market – something the company has to do, of course, in the face of the ever-more unified (but different) message coming from its big rival, Traktor.
Is 2013 going to be all about consolidation?
With the flood of new controllers definitely slowing down, and manufacturers looking again at their product lines seemingly with the aim of simplifying them, consolidation seems to be the name of the game in 2013 – both within and between brands.
My view is that if this makes it easier for those who buy and use the gear to choose, it can only be a good thing. Because one of the paradoxes of digital DJing is that while it has put immense power into the hands of more potential DJs than ever before, it’s harder than ever to know where to start nowadays – something that I know from our mailbox is a huge pain point for many beginners.
• Watch this space from more consolidation news from the industry as and when we get it… 🙂
Do you agree that Serato is planning on merging its two software titles into one? Have you noticed the DJ industry slowing down and rationalising behind certain products this year? What do you think the next 12 months will bring for the big digital brands? Please share your thoughts in the comments.