I don't really think that Cross is a down-grade of Producer...
I just only think are different, for sure Producer/dvs7 has a couple of feature in addition that will make Cross the the definitive mixing software, like vst, ora sample (subliminal message to the developer

) but I think that the force of Cross is his easyness to use it, simple and clean interface, not so many options to lost into and so on, something that I haven't found in DVS7, so I think it's a step forward than DVS/Producer. I've also compared the scratch audio quality, same PC (macbook running boot osx and win xp via bootcamp, no emulation), same audio card (maya44USB), same audio files and the vinyl responsivness, the super-slow and the super-fast movement are better in Cross....to my ear, obviously, may be it's not really, but this is what I've heard.