Comments on: Handle a Crash the Sullenberger Way

By: WEBDEEJAY » Blog Archive » Tutorial: Prevenire e Gestire i Crash nel Digital DJing

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:10:47 +0000

[...] WebDeejay è lieta di annunciarvi che da oggi è ufficialmente in collaborazione con Dj TechTools, famosissimo sito e blog Americano riguardante il mondo del Dj ed in particolare il mondo del digital Djing. Grazie infatti al mio personale impegno ed alla mia amicizia e stima reciproca che ho nel tempo instaurato con Ean Golden, WebDeejay avrà l’onore di tradurre-in esclusiva- tutti i loro più importanti ed interessanti articoli. Oggi,cominciamo questa serie, con uno dei più interessanti….ovvero….come prevenire e gestire un crash “digitale” sul palco? Vi ricordiamo che il seguente articolo è anche disponibile in lingua Inglese sul sito originale di Djtechtools al seguente link: http://www.djtechtools.com/2009/04/19/handle-a-laptop-crash-the-sullenberger-way/ [...]

By: DJJ

DJJ — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:01:57 +0000

Guys!

What about the fans? If you have dead air for half a minute, they’re gonna get antsy.

At a big festival, I saw my friend and someone else tag teaming on the stage with ableton live; the other guy’s laptop got mistakenly unplugged by a stage tech, so his computer was out of service for close to ten minutes. My friend grabbed the mic and started talking to the crowd, asking them how they’re doing, if they’re having fun, make some noise. He also gave shoutouts to the organizers, and also asked the crowd where they were from. If everyone’s dancing for a few hours, it’s okay to take a break. Just keep entertaining some other way. Beatbox! Bust out a catchy rhyme.

By: nudearchitect

nudearchitect — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:16:51 +0000

Phenomenal article. Very well synthesized and thought out. A DJ techtools must read.

By: Hans

Hans — Thu, 07 May 2009 08:26:38 +0000

Really nice article, good point about having the ipod up and running already ;-) But:[quote comment=""]When the amount of memory the programs need exceeds (or come close to) the total amount of RAM, you get freezes and crashes.[/quote]

When your computer runs out of memory, it does not crash or freeze directly, it starts swapping to the harddrive. The swapfile on the harddrive (or virtual memory) is used whenever programs need RAM but there is none left. This sounds flawless, but it ain`t: often, when an audio application has to swap, it produces glitches or stutter, because using the harddrive as virtual RAM is sloooooooooow :-( Live e.g. might have problems with buffering clips.

Another general point in Laptop usage for audio purposes would be: use your device exclusively for your gig purposes – do not install other programs or use it for any other . Of course you can ensure that there is no other software running in the background while you perform, but: the more software you have on your system, the more filesystem mess-up happens – a messed up fs on your harddrive can really ruin your day as well!

By: ToS

ToS — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:21:18 +0000

I wish I could reply that nicely.

Agreed.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:00:41 +0000

[quote comment=""]I have used windows for about 8 years and spend a lot researching and testing and finally got a stable system, but I don`t recommend it for reliability (on stage) because I think for the average user its too much knowledge she/he needs to gather to have his system running for a long time. (Routines, Installation, Driver cleaning,…)

so far is my opinion.

My mac had a very bad crash right after one month when i bought it – so I do know that there is no perfect maschine :)and I do love south park…

But mac does give you more time in performing and beeing a musican or artist because you don`t need to care about so much things like you do in windows. Backup and "rewinding" with time maschine is great so you do not need external programs like windows need because apples system utilities are fine from the beginning.

Another reason for me was vista (because xp runs out after a couple of years) – I didn`t like it from the first day, XP is still the best of the windows OS family.

So its personal preference – like the WAV/MP3 discussion of beatport.

You need to decide which way you work.[/quote]

By: Arno

Arno — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:49:08 +0000

I have used windows for about 8 years and spend a lot researching and testing and finally got a stable system, but I don`t recommend it for reliability (on stage) because I think for the average user its too much knowledge she/he needs to gather to have his system running for a long time. (Routines, Installation, Driver cleaning,…)

so far is my opinion.

My mac had a very bad crash right after one month when i bought it – so I do know that there is no perfect maschine :)and I do love south park…

Another reason for me was vista (because xp runs out after a couple of years) – I didn`t like it from the first day, XP is still the best of the windows OS family.

So its personal preference – like the WAV/MP3 discussion of beatport.

You need to decide which way you work.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 02:46:54 +0000

Not a big windoz fan here but for both OS X and XP Vista whatever you do need a separate partition for music from the OS. Period Running OS, and apps use the hard drive for local storage, temp files and the like. This causes fragmentation and leaves bits of data that cause more fragmentation. OS X does a little better job of defragging on the fly but both should be maintained and optimized. If the OS is not using the same drive or partition as the music the less problems you will have with the directory structure (missing files) or non continous mp3s (pops and dropouts) during playback.

If your running a clean dedicated system your less likely to notice this but it doesn't mean it is any less true