Numark DJ IO

I've got a DJ gig in a few days (Traktor) and my monster 8 input interface is being flaky. I need something simpler and more trustworthy.

The Numark DJ IO has exacly what I want

• Bus powered USB 2
  
• 2 sets of audio outs so you can monitor
  
• Mic in so you dont have to lug a separate mixer
  
• Headphone out
  

Before I rush off and get one, are there similar units I should consider?

Also, how does the Numark go on Win7 64?

Ta

i was thinking of buying this as well, did you get it in the end? is it any good?

I don't have any experience with the new one, but a friend bought the DJ IO a few years ago and had nothing but problems with it. He had to send it back to Numark 3 times before he got one that worked right. Once he had one that worked well, Virtual DJ and the unit were not reliable. The controller had a lot of problems with stuck parameters and sliders not functioning at all, and the DJ IO would get noisy as hell. I know the new one has the DJ IO built into the controller, so hopefully all the bugs were fixed along with it, but I would suggest going a different route if possible.

Well I did the gig with my new Traktor Audio 2, gig went sweet.

Days leading up to gig - not so sweet...

Windows 7 has some retarded bug with USB audio where CPU#0 spikes to 100% every 15 seconds aka dropout city. I downloaded the hotfix and it said "this update does not apply to your computer" even though it was for the EXACT issue I had.

Good thing my compy was already set up to dual boot to XP - oddly enough due to flaky audio hardware...

  On 8/8/2011 at 12:07 AM, analogue wings said:

Well I did the gig with my new Traktor Audio 2, gig went sweet.

 

Days leading up to gig - not so sweet...

 

Windows 7 has some retarded bug with USB audio where CPU#0 spikes to 100% every 15 seconds aka dropout city. I downloaded the hotfix and it said "this update does not apply to your computer" even though it was for the EXACT issue I had.

 

Good thing my compy was already set up to dual boot to XP - oddly enough due to flaky audio hardware...

Weird. Yeah I've got Windows 7 on another laptop and my Focusrite Saffire 6 refuses to work on it. I'm getting a cheap Behringer usb card so it'll be interesting to see if that works.