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Crossfading Lagging Serato

clickclickw00t 2:40 AM - 1 February, 2010
SO I saw this very interesting problem in Serato while I was working last night.

I have a wonderfully awesome and clean (dedicated) Macbook Pro for DJing. It is completely void of anything other than Serato. When I am DJing and I start cutting one channel very quickly, and I mean very very quick cutting (like a transform type cut) with the fader, the visual representation of the waveforms on Serato seem to lag, a lot.

I believe the problem lies within the "history" function of 1.9.2. If registers whether the song was played on the left or right deck, and I believe that every time I do a quick cut, Serato tries to log that as a "switch" of songs, or decks, thereby slowing down the visual waveforms.

I could be wrong, but this is what I think. It is really quite annoying that it would do that when I am just cutting with the crossfader, and not even though the record.
sweetL 10:24 AM - 1 February, 2010
does it sound ok tho?

cause if so, i have a question... why do you need to look at the waveform while cutting?
ta2423 7:53 AM - 2 February, 2010
Does the same here... If I pay attention to it.
sweetL 2:52 PM - 2 February, 2010
again.... why are you looking at the waveform whilst cutting?
ta2423 4:58 PM - 2 February, 2010
Nothing wrong with that... I look at it occasionally to see where Im at on the wave form. I have also caught the sound not coming thru correctly when the wave form is jumpy.
clickclickw00t 9:17 PM - 2 February, 2010
yep, i'm not looking at the waveform, it's just something I noticed. It sounds fine, but sometimes the sound does skip a little.

I'm just saying that the Serato Team should take a look at it, it could be something that could be causing, or cause, an overload in serato that could possibly lead to instability problems in the future.
clickclickw00t 10:03 PM - 4 February, 2010
anybody from rane have any comments?
sweetL 10:46 PM - 4 February, 2010
it would be serato, not rane... the fader is working, the software is lagging.

that said, i dont think its a problem...
AKIEM 9:44 AM - 6 February, 2010
the screen can only refresh at a certain rate - no mater what you are going to be able to cut faster then the refresh rate
nik39 2:17 AM - 12 February, 2010
Quote:
I believe the problem lies within the "history" function of 1.9.2. If registers whether the song was played on the left or right deck, and I believe that every time I do a quick cut, Serato tries to log that as a "switch" of songs, or decks, thereby slowing down the visual waveforms.

I can confirm your finding. It also took me a while to narrow this down.

This should have been fixed in 2.0, which is in Public Beta testing currently.
clickclickw00t 11:57 PM - 20 February, 2010
cool, glad someone can replicate
Idlemind1999 7:12 AM - 22 February, 2010
Ain't it the WORST feeling in the world to have a problem and no one else seems to have it?

Glad its been confirmed.