by Blackbrook on 14 Aug 2011, 21:03
Hello there,
please let me bump this thread because I have a similar issue.
I have bought a used Macbook 4,1 with an Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2,4 GHz and 4 GB RAM. The vendor installed the new Mac OS 10.7 on it which ran completely bad. So I did not wonder that Cross 1.6.0 does not work flawlessly on it. Afterwards I have installed the delivered Mac OS 10.5.2 with all updates.
Time to get Cross working - plugged in the U-Mix Control Pro and started playing in timecode mode. Woah! Drop-Outs and crackling sound everywhere! Even with latencys of 20 ms it was hard listening to it because of drop outs. So I unplugged the U-Mix Control Pro and started working with the Hercules DJ Trim 4&6. This audio interface can be used with drivers from the hercules page.
The delivered accu is broken because of its loading cycles of 475 and higher. It was in the Macbook all the time and now I have taken it out of the Macbook to see if this might help.
The macbook without the accu is running at the moment in the background with a latency of 16 ms @ 44.1 kHz, an audio cache of 0% and it is definitely not stable. After every trackchange, when I load a new track into the deck, I get drop outs. I get drop outs when I scratch like hell in the cued track too. This is a good test after every "tweak" I did.
I remember people telling me "Get a Mac and all your worries are gone" - what should I say?
Has anybody got an idea how to fix this? Are there tweaks for Macs? Would a new accu help? I am desperate and if I can not get that Macbook running flawless I will sell it again :-(
Cheers and thanks in advance!
Steve
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SteveWinner Mixvibes 10 years DJ contest 2009