Hello,
For background and context :
I am a long time Traktor user, on PC. For my gig, I also used my PC, but with DJayPro, and my controller, a Reloop Jockey III Remix that I mapped in DJay.
So, now my remarks :
1 - Sync function : works well, except for the first beat > unlike in Traktor, when press play in DJay, it takes the time of the first beat to align properly with the other playing deck. So it can be fairly common to be slightly offbeat during the first beat…not so great if you wanna throw your track in the mix directly at full volume. This doesn’t happen in traktor, sync is sync, from the first beat on. So this needs to be fixed in DJay.
2 - Cue function : the options I have found in DJay’s midi mapping seem to cannot reproduce properly what I would call the normal cue function like in Traktor : when press cue, just simply go back to the last cued position. As for the time being, what I have noticed is that, for example, if I am positioned on Start cue and I then press cue1, the cursor will go to cue1, and if press play it will play from cue1. but then if I press the cue button, the cursor will bring me back to Start cue. To have it go back to the cue1 position, I would need, when on cue1 mark, to press cue button to tell the program that this is the new cue position. that extra action (pressing on cue after cue1) makes no sense to me and can even mess up things, like it did with me, during a gig, when there is a certain pressure and that this unnecessary routine can be easily forgotten.
3 - track analysis odd behavior : I have noticed that many of my tracks, after analysis, are not well marked : DJay locates the first beat at half bar. if this was just for one track, I wouldn’t say, but this happened to me on many tracks during my gig (tracks that I had not analysed before because they were tracks that I knew) Traktor doesn’t do this.
4 - Also was wondering : around the end of the evening, the worse happened - PC crash. altho my pc is not the slowest - 16 GB of RAM and 4 GB Graphics and AMD Ryzen 5. The thing is, my PC really seldom crashes. There it had been running DJay for at least 5 hours and suddenly BOOM ! So I do suspect it has to do with DJay. So my question is have you had other reports of such issue and what do you recommend to do. FYI I’m running windows 10.
5 - Display : ok so I like DJay for many of its features, but as I said before I am a long time traktor user, for many reasons but I won’t get into this now. One thing tho about traktor is that it has a really neat layout. And I was wondering if the layout in DJay could try to ressemble a little bit more that of traktor. or at least a skin that could rearrange DJay to look like traktor ? Most important IMO would be the decks and mixer section. In traktor the knobs and fadders are bigger, easier for a quick grasp of the situation. and if such a skin was possible, then also include the wave displays like in traktor (because then the mixer section could become bigger).
6 - It really would be better to have master volume, booth and headphones volume on the main display instead of in the settings (why the hell anyway ?) and to be able to control these from a controller.
Thank you for reading all of this, hoping that some of my thoughts will make their way into a future version of DJay.
Regards and keep up with the great work !
