Lots has been said about the (absence of) next major Cross upgrade. And - just to be sure - rightfully so.
I was answering some posts on another DJ forum today though and suddenly realized something.
When I moved to Cross because my (then) controller wasn't supported by Serato and I wanted to leave Traktor, Traktor had been on version 2 since I got my controller a year and a half before. I then moved to Cross which went from 2.4 or so to 3.11 in the following period.
But Traktor is still on the version 2, with the only significant upgrade the addition of STEMS, which imho is interesting to a part of the community but certainly not to all DJs.
Meanwhile Mixvibes has produced several other pieces of DJ software, like the first serious Android, a quick experiment with a Linux version and of course things like the (apparently) popular Remix Live. Definitely more new things to come out of Mixvibes than out of the Traktor kitchen imho.
So, while - like many of you - I am anxiously awaiting a new Cross version, which will solve a few longstanding user feature requests and hopefully add some brilliant new stuff as well (full integration of Remix Live?), I felt I had to say something in defense of the development team at Mixvibes who have not been sitting on the couch picking their noses. Even if the choices they made aren't the ones I would have like to see.
Hopefully with all these new products now launched we can get back to Cross 4 development