Hello, the behaviour of platters when searching through a track (eg holding “shift” on controller, then using a platter to scrub forward or back through the track) doesn’t work very well for me coming from Serato.
In Serato, as long as my hand is on the platter, Serato will keep playing the track as it would have before scrubbing. When I finally see the place in the track that I’d like to skip to, I take my hand off the platter and Serato instantly goes to this spot.
In djay, the playback position changes almost instantly as I start searching by holding shift and using platters to scrub. The behaviour is almost the same, but I am unable to precisely decide when to skip ahead because djay doesn’t wait for me to remove my hand from the platters.
This way of seeking through tracks in Serato is very valuable to me because I don’t want my audience to hear me skipping ahead until I’m ready to skip to that location. Is there some way to replicate Serato’s platter search behaviour in djay?
Is this common to all controllers? I know mine isn’t designed to work specifically for djay, but the mapping that’s provided is pretty darn good. Do the dedicated/integrated hardware controllers like the Mixon 8 behave differently?
Thank you.
djay 5.2.6
macOS 15.1
controller: Pioneer DDJ-SR2
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I don’t know where I hallucinated this behaviour from, but I sure do feel silly, and the topic name isn’t accurate. Sorry for creating any extra work for your team with my confusion. That said… this is still a feature I’d love to have.
