Faster display of BPM when starting timecode cd
Posted: 13 Jul 2011, 05:20
I'm using CDJ 800s with the start delay set at minimum. (so when I hit play there is no ramp up to speed of the playing track). In Cross however, the BPM (and the waveform display) seems to ramp up to speed. (takes a second or two maybe) Now the track itself doesn't ramp up to speed, just the bpm display and waveform display.
This tells me two things:
1) that Cross knows almost instantaneously the speed that the timecode cd is running. (as the track playback doesn't ramp up like a turntable would)
2) that the display of BPM and waveform is based on some sliding window count of timecodes (number of timecodes over some predetermined window, then applied against the BPM of the actual track)
Apart from the ramp up of the number (and associated zoom in of the wave form), this means that minor adjustments of the cdj pitch fader take a little while to be reflected on the BPM display. This is quite annoying when trying sync the track speeds manually.
I don't really see why Cross needs to have the arbitrary ramp up of BPM / zoom in of the waveform. Would it be possible for these displays to be as instantaneous as the actual BPM that the track is playing at?
This tells me two things:
1) that Cross knows almost instantaneously the speed that the timecode cd is running. (as the track playback doesn't ramp up like a turntable would)
2) that the display of BPM and waveform is based on some sliding window count of timecodes (number of timecodes over some predetermined window, then applied against the BPM of the actual track)
Apart from the ramp up of the number (and associated zoom in of the wave form), this means that minor adjustments of the cdj pitch fader take a little while to be reflected on the BPM display. This is quite annoying when trying sync the track speeds manually.
I don't really see why Cross needs to have the arbitrary ramp up of BPM / zoom in of the waveform. Would it be possible for these displays to be as instantaneous as the actual BPM that the track is playing at?