DJ WHY It's Important to Install the Driver for Your Piece of Kit

0:25 Having no driver is a little bit like having no driver, as demonstrate

Having no driver is a little bit like having no driver, as demonstrated earlier. You can be in the vehicle, the vehicle can run, there's no problem with it, it works fine, but if there's no one behind the steering wheel with the communication to the vehicle itself, then the vehicle isn't going to move or do anything at all. So there's nothing wrong with it, it'll run, but you actually need someone to even turn it on and start it. So, very important. Now, drivers as well. When you go online, there is possibly a million and one places where you can get one driver, or the one driver that you need. But, I would recommend you, first of all, go to the website, the company website, and you find the driver from there.

1:34 Third-party website, I'm not saying you

If you go to a third-party website, I'm not saying you should or shouldn't do this, this is just advice, there may be a couple of icons that say, BOLD BANG IN YOUR FACE, DOWNLOAD HERE, and you download it. And before you know, you've downloaded it. You've downloaded some strange software that you didn't want in the first place, whereas if you go to the correct site, for example, if you go to American DJ and then you go to the American DJ site and download the driver from American DJ, you're guaranteed of getting the driver for the product that you bought. Same with Pioneer and other companies. So, you can, like I said, go to other places. If you want to get a driver for the product that you bought, same with Pioneer and other companies.

Same with Pioneer and other companies. But, it's better to go to the one website. Right, let's do kind of a test. Now, I've got the Rekordbox software over there on my right, and to my left, I have the DJM-900 Nexus 2. I am now going to plug in the Nexus 2 to the laptop. So, let's see what happens. So, I'm going to plug that in there, I'm then going to plug the other part of the USB cable into the laptop. On to the Nexus and, right, I've got a flashing green icon just below where I plugged it in on the Nexus, which is telling me there's some form of communication happening. But, if we have a look on the software now, Audio Driver Install. Please note, the audio driver for the connected device is not the latest version.

3:15 Audio may not output from the connected device

Audio may not output from the connected device. Install the latest audio driver. The latest audio driver below, disconnect USB cable prior to installation. Press install to launch the installer. Right, so I now have to unplug and I now have to press install. Right, okay, yes, I want that to happen. Now, this will not happen all the time, okay? Just because you've got a new piece of kit and you plug it in does not mean to say that you're going to have a lovely little icon saying, guess what, you need to install the driver. That does not happen all the time. So I hear of many cases, including myself on the odd occasion, when I'm thinking, what's wrong? Why isn't it working? Please work! It's because there is no communication.

This is why you need a driver. It's now installed. Audio Driver Install. Please follow the instructions. After installation, you can confirm, dash, change, input, dash, output channels in preferences and then audio. So I'm going to click okay. There we go. So if your piece of kit isn't working and it's not communicating, it's the driver. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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