Cross feature suggestions - overall I couldn't be happier!
Posted: 28 Jan 2017, 14:45
So, I've been using Cross since it was a beta version a million years ago. I've grown to love it more than anything else. The so-called competition is just starting to catch up, years later.
It's gotten to a point where I'm happy telling people that it's better than anything else out there. It gets the beatgrids right 99% of the time, which is better than the competition, particularly with drum & bass or non 4/4 genres. The amount of hassles I experience these days with Cross are non-existent. I own multiple licenses, even.
So I had the ideas for some new features that might help really technical users get a bit more in-depth.
1. Rewire support - This has been mentioned in the past, but native Rewire support would allow us to route Cross into a DAW or other audio application without requiring two soundcards or a virtual ASIO driver, both of which add more latency. In my particular usage, I need to route Cross into REAPER, and I'm currently using ReaRoute, which is REAPER's virtual ASIO driver. It works, but you basically double the latency since you're using 2 ASIO drivers in series.
2. Internal mixer mode with more output options (more than dual stereo/simple stereo mode) - Some of us need to route audio to different outputs while still using Cross' internal mixer. If the internal mixer's MIDI mapped functions could still be used while in "external mixer" mode, that would be good. OR, if you could offer more output routing options to allow Output Deck 1, Deck 2, Cue, and Master, while in "internal mixer" mode, that would give a lot more flexibility.
3. More thought as to how relative-mode encoders can be adapted to effects via MIDI - basically, I have a lot of endless encoders which have toggle function (push) and relative mode (rotary). The mixer and effect functions, although they will work with a relative control, lack a good way to reset the values to 0. I was thinking that, in the instance of a filter for example, a MIDI function that will reset it to '0'. That way I could link the pushbutton function of the encoder to both on/off AND reset-to-zero, so that whenever I turn on/off the filter, it starts from the zero point.
I run into a lot of ideas like these, and I'm always happy to share them if they are of any use to the development team. If someone from the support/dev staff could let me know that they would at least consider these thoughts, it would make me feel like an important client (I do actually own 5 legitimately purchased licenses, so that would be extra nice).
It's gotten to a point where I'm happy telling people that it's better than anything else out there. It gets the beatgrids right 99% of the time, which is better than the competition, particularly with drum & bass or non 4/4 genres. The amount of hassles I experience these days with Cross are non-existent. I own multiple licenses, even.
So I had the ideas for some new features that might help really technical users get a bit more in-depth.
1. Rewire support - This has been mentioned in the past, but native Rewire support would allow us to route Cross into a DAW or other audio application without requiring two soundcards or a virtual ASIO driver, both of which add more latency. In my particular usage, I need to route Cross into REAPER, and I'm currently using ReaRoute, which is REAPER's virtual ASIO driver. It works, but you basically double the latency since you're using 2 ASIO drivers in series.
2. Internal mixer mode with more output options (more than dual stereo/simple stereo mode) - Some of us need to route audio to different outputs while still using Cross' internal mixer. If the internal mixer's MIDI mapped functions could still be used while in "external mixer" mode, that would be good. OR, if you could offer more output routing options to allow Output Deck 1, Deck 2, Cue, and Master, while in "internal mixer" mode, that would give a lot more flexibility.
3. More thought as to how relative-mode encoders can be adapted to effects via MIDI - basically, I have a lot of endless encoders which have toggle function (push) and relative mode (rotary). The mixer and effect functions, although they will work with a relative control, lack a good way to reset the values to 0. I was thinking that, in the instance of a filter for example, a MIDI function that will reset it to '0'. That way I could link the pushbutton function of the encoder to both on/off AND reset-to-zero, so that whenever I turn on/off the filter, it starts from the zero point.
I run into a lot of ideas like these, and I'm always happy to share them if they are of any use to the development team. If someone from the support/dev staff could let me know that they would at least consider these thoughts, it would make me feel like an important client (I do actually own 5 legitimately purchased licenses, so that would be extra nice).