the issues shouldn't be related, but something weird is going on
do these issues with sound happen outside of that program?
I did what
@StatUS said and now the sound seems to be fixed but Serato still doesn't recognize Mixtrack Pro. I mean, there's been times before when this happened but all I had to do was close down certain programs and then the software would work. Maybe its something else that's stopping Mixtrack Pro from working.
I wonder what it is. I looked around online and apparently it could be that my laptop is not powerful enough to run the program but its worked fine in the past. My laptop is pretty old though, I've had it for nearly 5 years. I'd still like to keep using this laptop for another 6 months or so though.