Ok, this is the second time I have had this problem, I'm not sure if its software related or what.

I recently just downloaded 1.8 Final, and shame on me, didn't test it out before going to my gig on Friday night. So I get there set up and I go to test out the right table, works fine, the left table......nothing. The song loaded, but when I played the control record nothing happened. So I figured I must have crossed the wires or something, so I shut everything down, laptop, mixer, everything and then hooked it all back up again, re-booted and still nothing. So long story short, this is the second time after installing an update, (also happened right after i installed 1.7.4), this has happened to me. I had to do the night working with one table and int mode on the other. (Thank god for that, I only brought a small case of vinyl with me, I would have never made it through the night).

Does anyone else have this happen?

That stinks. Did you try actually switching the decks inputs or the needles? When you had that prob last time was it the same left TT? Try every scenerio possible of switching between rigth and left before you rule it being a SL issue (not saying its possible), but there are a ton of other things it could be. A while back, I thougth I had a problem with one of my amps, that it was blown cuz my subs weren't working. I didn't have time to trouble shoot that night, but the next day I playeda round and it ended up being a bad wire from the crossover to the sub amp. The stupidest little thing ended up being the cause. If you have time, go back to your venue and play around and see if you can find the solution.

hmm, no issues here. I had alot od dropout issues with the beta versions of 1.8. But final has worked pretty flawless for me.

This happened to me once...I unplugged all the connection and replugged them in again. Turned out I had put the left rca cable into an analog output on one of the CDJs which was used for fader start. Once I switched it up; no problems. I was freaking out for a minute tho.

Hey CQE, yeah i did switch them around, it wasn't the table, I thought that the first time and I was pissed. I just bought these MK5G's like 6 months ago, and I thought it was the RCA's, but I switched them it wasn't. SO then I switched the needles all together, I bring my concordes and my M447-G's with me. The last time it happened, I hooked all the same shit up at home and it worked fine. Its funny, I feel like its finniky. The last time this happened i also thought the pre-amp on that channel of my TTM-56 crapped the bed, so I switched it out with my Xone2 and it still didn't work. I can't figure it out. Maybe I need a new laptop...(at least that is what I'm going to tell my family for christmas lol)

Did you try to run it in internal mode to see if that worked? If that didn't work then it would definitely be a bug with the software. Otherwise, I would check for something else.

To me, it sounds like a the control signal just wasn't getting to the software somehow.

Dusty needle or loose tone arm connection? The needle got me once, luckily it was at home.

Internal mode did work, which is why I know I hooked it up right. Every now and again I would try and it would act funny. The wave would move, a slight bit and then it would not move any more. Also, I noticed at one point, the program kind of froze and then there was a slight weird looking blue slope thing in the right hand corner of the status bar about the wave, never seen anything like that.

In any event, I am getting good and working with internal mode. Sucks that I can't scratch the way I want, but at least I can put in cue points and drop it in where i want.

I took the needles off, brushed the connectors from the head shell, and nothing. Then I switched from Shure's to concordes just to see. It wasn't the tone arm b/c when I used regular vinyl, it worked fine.

That is interesting.

Working with 1 TT isn't too bad, I do it a lot when I am just messin around at home. Use instant doubles. Its really a great feature.

i still dont completely understand instant doubles...

(Borat Voice) Whaaat???

Haha, just playin'.

You have to be relative or internal mode on at least one side and then just load the same song on the other side and it will start where the first one is playing. If both sides have the pitch set at the same speed, they will both be playing together side by side. If that makes any sense...

i feel like i tried it once and it didnt work right. i was probably in absolute mode tho... thanks yo.

Also, i think you have to have lock playing deck unchecked in setup

Last time, something like this happened to me.. I had the "needle lift"? up barely to where the needle looked like it was down on the record but it wasn't touching it, try looking at that...

ooh, good one. i could see that happening.

I checked that too, Like i said, i switched the config just to see. When I hooked the left TT up the right side of the SL1, it played the Right deck without any problems.

I PM'd josh about this so hopefully this is something they know about and can advise me on how to prevent it.

too afraid to look like a noob in the help section? haha. Try Konix also.

We have a bingo!

And this is why I keep 1.7.4 on my lappy as a backup!

Haven't screwed with 1.8 final yet, just built overviews and set cue points and loops!

I don't rebuild my overviews when I upgrade releases...do you guys think that's bad? It hasn't been a problem so far.

I dont. Only when i new feature is added... like auto gain and auto bpm.

Im still on 1.7.1. I will take the plunge into 1.8 once I see enough people say they are cool with it and don't have problems.

Dont be scurred CQE. Alot of the people in the help forums are just noobs who either:
Didnt have box plugged in during upgrade
Are running a Pentium 1 computer. lol
Are just stupid.

I havent had any problems with it. In fact, i love 1.8. Editing songs in the offline player is monnnnney. If you have a dual core computer u can take advantage of 2x the speed for building overviews.

Yea, I have a dual core macbook. So I would like that since I need to rebuild all of my overviews. Ill prob scope the help section to see what stupid questiosn are in there then download it. Now that the semester is over, I have time to troubleshoot just in case. I do want to run the two versions just in case. I havent done that yet, so I gotta read how to do that.

well 1.7.4 is proven stable, u could always upgrade to that. All the benefits of 1.8 minus offline player and midi.

If im going to upgrade i might as well just get 1.8 and get all the other benefits. I am interested in that absolute/relative mode thing. And the drop to cue points feature

Well its been figured out. Tig came to the spot last night and we both determined that its the left input of the SL-1. Its not working. I hooked the TT up regular to the mixer, it worked fine, then when I tried to hook the thru channel up on the left SL-1 channel, the signal was super weak, so if that thing has a pre-amp or something in it, its blown. Just giving ya'll a heads up.