rhopkins wrote:...I wondered how far it progressed?
[*]Anyone know if it is M1 compatible including with hardware?
[*]I could be wrong, but I thought initially there was something wrong with how effects were applied?
If I recall right this has been fixed. Now all 3 per deck are applied.
[*]Is there full compatibility with the U-Mix Control Pro 2?
This is technically not really possible. Cross 'talks' to the driver if present in the OS. As the manufacturer of the the U-Mix Control Pro isn't MW it will only work till the OS change driver standards.
[*]I see semi-regularly that requests for Cross 4 manual are met with a negative reply - is there REALLY no manual for it?
no. Last manual is v2.6 with additions in Youtube for later versions. (I must ad mit as owner of some software titels I also stopped this as it's extremely costly and holds back devellopment)
[*]Is Cross 4 dead, as in there aren't going to be further updates to it?
[*]Finally - and this is the big one - for those that stayed loyal to 3.4.3, is 4 now better or best to stay with what I have?
FWIW I'd upgrade to Cross DJ 4 because its unlikely I'm going to be using timecode vinyl again anytime soon.
For me v4 just doesn't do it. For starters I find the grid hard to read and further to me the buttons and features more or less are randomized/hard to find. Also some (for me) relevant buttons don't exist no more but fortunately still accessible by MIDI/Keyboard. I merely use v4 for answering question in the forum.
I suppose one of the worst issues is that they had to use a new grid development tool that doesn't have the capability to support the 'layers' per row the old version had so unnecessary rows had to be added to get the buttons (most) available at all.
I did some testing of modifying the grid to get it better as initially the product was supposed to have this as a feature. I did get it some better for me (I e.g. changed fonts/sizes/back&foregrounds) with the objective to get it towards my favorite design (the v1.7 version
). However as I didn't know if there was a way to compare this for upgrades I just quit this and went back to 3.4.3.