djsherz
Ok, a couple of ideas, one of which I know has been mentioned before, but here goes anyway.... :-)
1) For a proper sample manager built into VDJ. I currently use the sample manager plugin, which does the job, but is far from ideal. Firstly, you can't name the stored banks, they are just listed in numerical order. Secondly, the manager's editing features are somewhat limited - once you've stored it, you're stuck with it. How about building an improved version of the sample manager into VDJ? It needn't take up much room on the skin - just a couple of pushbuttons for "save bank as..." and "delete", plus a drop-down menu with a list of sample groups (which would be names rather than numbers, you could store groups and name them as "intro jingles", "acapellas 1", "house loops" etc)... Rather like the effects menu - maybe even include keyboard shortcuts into the programming to allow quick access to selecting a page of samples.
2) Stuttering of beatmatched samples. You can play a sample temporarily by holding down shift while hitting the sample pad, to do the "stutter" effect if you so wish. This works fine with free-running (ie not beat-sync) samples, but if it's synced to the track that's playing, the beat sync won't allow you to stutter a sample properly - it will jump around and sound messy as it tries to stay in sync. It would be useful if the sync feature was disengaged while the shift key was pressed. It should still be bpm-matched to the playing track, but not locked to it, if you see what I'm getting at. Once the shift key is released, the sync lock could then re-engage, and the sample would play as normal.
Just a couple of ideas anyway....
Oh, and while I'm at it, another old chestnut for ya... please please please (grovel, scrape etc) could you add a "recordcase location" option to the config, allowing us to choose where to store the database files? That would make things sooo much easier for those of use who use two gig machines, with the same removable music drive... It was a VERY useful feature of PCDJ Red, and I'm sue it wouldn't be that difficult to do...
1) For a proper sample manager built into VDJ. I currently use the sample manager plugin, which does the job, but is far from ideal. Firstly, you can't name the stored banks, they are just listed in numerical order. Secondly, the manager's editing features are somewhat limited - once you've stored it, you're stuck with it. How about building an improved version of the sample manager into VDJ? It needn't take up much room on the skin - just a couple of pushbuttons for "save bank as..." and "delete", plus a drop-down menu with a list of sample groups (which would be names rather than numbers, you could store groups and name them as "intro jingles", "acapellas 1", "house loops" etc)... Rather like the effects menu - maybe even include keyboard shortcuts into the programming to allow quick access to selecting a page of samples.
2) Stuttering of beatmatched samples. You can play a sample temporarily by holding down shift while hitting the sample pad, to do the "stutter" effect if you so wish. This works fine with free-running (ie not beat-sync) samples, but if it's synced to the track that's playing, the beat sync won't allow you to stutter a sample properly - it will jump around and sound messy as it tries to stay in sync. It would be useful if the sync feature was disengaged while the shift key was pressed. It should still be bpm-matched to the playing track, but not locked to it, if you see what I'm getting at. Once the shift key is released, the sync lock could then re-engage, and the sample would play as normal.
Just a couple of ideas anyway....
Oh, and while I'm at it, another old chestnut for ya... please please please (grovel, scrape etc) could you add a "recordcase location" option to the config, allowing us to choose where to store the database files? That would make things sooo much easier for those of use who use two gig machines, with the same removable music drive... It was a VERY useful feature of PCDJ Red, and I'm sue it wouldn't be that difficult to do...
geposted Mon 02 Apr 07 @ 4:45 am
djsherz
A quick visual idea of what I have in mind... excuse the poor photoshop skills!
geposted Tue 03 Apr 07 @ 1:04 am