Ok, I purchased the software yesterday and today I've discovered it in the most part.
I admid that Cross have very good potential, but as today it's unripe and pretty unusable for me.
Not a good way to spent my money for now so, but for tomorrow it could became a great piece of software, if:
Software improvements:
- First of all, improve stability
Macbook Pro mid 2012 4gb ram: with 4 decks playing it's all a jitter.
When I use the same setup with traktor pro 2 plus 4/5 effects always on, it works flawless. To notice I have an AIFF library
- Drag and drop a loop locator into a sample bank empty space
- Ability to link a sample bank to a track and an option to load the sample bank automatically when I load the related track
- Bank of locators: sets of 8 locators per bank with a bank selector
- The banks of locators can be chained to a playlist, so when you load a track from a determinate playlist the related bank of locators loads automatically. Bank of locators linked to a playlist have the playlist name + number of bank as name, banks related only to a track can be renamed as the user want
- Introduce fade-in/fade-out locators, with the ability to choose the destination deck of single fade-out locator, ex: fade-out locator at 04:34:7 to fade out in deck d fade in locator. Fade in/out locators doesn't control volume or stop but only start of tracks
- Effects are good but FX section it's a crap: add a 3 effect on same fx channel setup for non bidimensional configuration. And, of course, the effects should be assigned to whatever channels we want, a or b or c or d or all four channel simultaneously (or no channel)
- Insert the possibility to add tags to the songs, for example #bigdrop, #notforchildren or #truelove and to use them in search and smart playlists
- Ability to erase all locators and analysis with one button
- Insert an option to use full kill EQ and filters (primary for me)
- Insert an option to use limiters on single channels
- Insert an option to use one custom setting as the master for bpm and tone sync of all deck
- Sync bar in decks under the waveform, referred to master
- Insert an option to view the real note, ex: Emin, C
- Add the option to use decks a and b as sampler decks
- Ability to choose deck color (like cubase or pt) and the option to see that color in the column of channel in EQ section
- Add some polishing in visual effects and transitions, this is only a personal opinion but all the software seems a little too rough and “windows styled”
- Fix tag issue with AIFF files, software wont read my tags on AIFF files (that are all of my collection)
DDJ-SX mapping changes:
- Sample volume fader (center fader) to control cue mix
- FX1 and FX2 selection on beats knob (Shift + knob 1... what a good idea, sigh)
- “Panel select” button to control “collection view expanded” instead of deck layout change, I think that nobody want to change from 4 to 2 decks (and viceversa) set during performance
- Option to unchain deck a from deck c (and b from d) and insert an option to use slicer section on deck a and b to perform levare rolling and use sampler section in some other creative way, for example harmonic random slice (keeping the groove)
- I Can't delete a sample on sample deck c using shift + pad button
- When using hot slice bank on deck c 1/2X and 2X button doesn't work on deck a
- Several functions and button aren't mapped, as shift + most button, knob and faders
If you folks add all this changes I really can stop from using traktor, but if not I just wasted 80€, especially for the instability of the software.
And, of course, I really hate to waste my money.
But I'm confident, you seems to upgrade the software very often.
I hope you guys will impress me soon
), software doesn't tell me that it was assigned to another function, so I don't understand what are you saying.
