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A professional sound card such as the Electrix Ebox 44, or the Forusrite Scarlett 2i4 provide 2 stereo outputs, with RCA connections, offer easy two-channel output connection to external DJ mixer and very low latency output.

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This means you have no way to cue in your headphones (pre-fade listening) and in the case of Windows machines, you’re software latency will be much higher due to having to use the native windows Direct Sound (or WDM/WASAPI) driver. Furthermore, they only have one stereo output in almost all cases. Computers come with ‘decent’ built-in sound cards, but they weren’t intended for live use and plugging into amplified systems. Use either a professional grade DJ-ready sound card, or DJ controller with one built in.USB 3.0 is ‘better’ but I still suggest the alternatives as Windows can and will often change your HD drive letters, breaking your shortcuts to your files, when using USB. Try to use firewire / thunderbolt or ESATA. Preferably (if you have the option) external HD’s should NOT be USB due to buss throttling when using USB DJ controllers and/or USB sound cards. Most DJ’s take out a second computer/laptop for backup to all gigs, and with an external HD it’s easy to plug-in and play with the backup machine. This ensures you’ll always have plenty of “breathing room” on your local boot drive, but it also means in case of catastrophic machine failure, you’ve got your files ready to go. Use an external HD for your media files.

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We suggest at least 4GB of RAM on both Windows 7 and Windows 8.

The more RAM the merrier. Your OS needs around 1GB of RAM for normal operations, and in the case of Windows 7 or Windows 8, you need a minimum of 2GB for the OS itself.

Under 20% of drive space you will notice system slow-down. Try to spare at least 20% of drive space to ensure “breathing room” for the OS.

Never let your boot drive (C drive/Internal drive) get too full.

Ideally however, you should not have ANY antivirus software on your machine, since some (including the popular Norton) will still run even when you disable them (so they are never completely disabled) Virus Software, especialy overly intrusive products such as Norton will do random background scans that can eat into valueable resources. If you must surf the web with the computer, and therefore use Antivirus software, make sure you disable it completely while you gig.

Remove any un-necessary applications, even antivirus software.

This holds true for your DJ machine, especially considering most laptops come with various adware and pre-loaded extra’s you simply won’t need.Īudio mixing, and even more so video mixing, with robust and feature intense DJ software really tax your machines resources – so you really want to squeeze as much dedicated power from the machine as possible. The suspension, gearing, and timing all need to be tweaked before a car is ready to be pushed to their limits.” Even high-performance sports cars come tuned for the road, not the racetrack. “You can’t walk into a car dealership and buy a car that’s ready to enter a race. Numark used an analogy on their website that I feel sums this up well: While it’s true you want to dedicate the machine you’re going to use to DJ with as much as possible to DJ software such as PCDJ, rarely are computers truly ‘ gig-ready‘. Many assume that an off-the-shelf machine is ready to fly, since they haven’t installed any other software etc.

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One question that’s asked often, and no surprise here, is how to ensure their MAC or Windows based computer is optimized for DJ software use. When I’m not busy socializing with our PCDJ community via our forums, social sites and blog posts I like to take a few minutes each week to answer our sales and customer service lines, mainly to gauge our audience on what their frequently asked questions are regarding PCDJ and DJing with a computer in general.