Right now in djay, once Sync is on, the deck stays hard-locked to the beatgrid. The problem: sometimes I intentionally pull a track slightly out a little nudge, riding the platter for a manual blend or a subtle push-pull effect. In djay, Sync fights me and snaps it right back into phase, which kills the move.
What I’d love is the way Serato handles it: if you deliberately nudge a synced deck out, it doesn’t force the beats back together. It intelligently drops from full beat sync down to just tempo/BPM sync — so the two tracks stay tempo-matched, but my manual phase offset is preserved until I decide to re-align. Best of both worlds: the safety of tempo lock, without losing manual control over phrasing.
