![]() The fact is that, no matter what interface you use, or how low you adjust the latecity. ![]() Focusing on one thing only will work flawless. making so many adjustments to make everything work is not easy. I know how much work it is for the software writters to make changes all the time to keep up with everything coming out new. Its better to use hardware & software made by the same company like vitual vinyl, serato, M audio, trakkktor etc. The good is that you can choose many options but the bad is that, you have to do many adjustements. Virtual dj is a universal program that allows you to use many interfaces etc. If you only focus on making software to perform well in its own hardware. The reason why serato is sucsessful is because, they designed something to work perfect with your exsisting equipment like your tuntables and cd players. And if *you* were Serato, would you even want to license your only competitive advantage to competitors? Thought so! Not really ideal though because you'd still need the Serato to fix VDJ and might be against eula Serato user have made upon installing. Maybe the only way to match Serato audio quality with master tempo enabled without making the price skyrocket (license) or hoping for miracles: have a plugin interface for the master tempo algorithm and then if the user has Serato installed, he can use some user made unofficial hack to wire up the Serato algo through the plugin interface. While I remember threads wishing for better sound quality in this product, very few could have pointed out that "in the future when you add master tempo the sound quality will be primarily dependant on how it's implemented" and even if you knew that what then, spend years on getting that right this late in the game when users want it now and may move to other prog if you don't give it to them? ![]() ![]() Where Serato spent all their time and effort on the basic things you expect from this type of product, Atomix had forum full of users wishing cool features before Serato had anything going. Atomix/VDJ end up increasing their price at one point and try establish a "pro" image but it's a bit late in the game. Now why Serato took over atleast in some areas from vinyls/VDJ is another thing but clearly you can see the companies have had different focus on what type of DJ they target if you look where VDJ came from. They also had market for it in studio use so all that time on research is probably paid off long ago.Ītomix had to have a go at the DJ market straight up since at the time it was definetely the best move and Serato was nowhere to be found in the DJ market. Serato focus from the beginning was the stretch algo and ten years of improving it is paying off (just in term of audio quality when master tempo is on, they've done some marketing things better as well). And then moved focus on productizing it and improving other things rather than doing more dsp stuff - the master tempo algo is not in house developed for example and many effects came from users with skill to do them. ![]() Serato had slightly different appoach than VDJ/Atomix:Ītomix was doing research until it perfected algo for finding the beat energy. If you don't use (master tempo, the internal EQ or the actions that skip data rather than bend the speed) VDJ sound is as good as rest of your audio chain is. Some rambling on this theme since I've given it a bit of thought as it comes up now and then, correct me if I'm wrong as some of it's just what I know from reading the web. Edit: I realize some may not care about this thing, there are horrible PA setups there that can mask these issues and I wouldn't care if I didn't hear it. ![]()
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