Mixvibes Cross and CrossDJ 2.5 update and video plugin 1.1.2

Dj Emazing, post: 42696, member: 9575 wrote: I just fell in love with your setup…

It’s a mix of my old and my backup gear :-).

I have a Denon X1600 (midi) mixer and two SC2900 media-players, but the coffin isn’t quite ready yet. That is why I brought my “old” MC6000 and my “very old!” CD-players. For smaller parties and backup I’ll be bringing my iDJ Pro in the car. Especially now DJ Player has a mapping for it. Perhaps we’ll even see a Cross for iPad mapping for it too somewhere in the future :-).

Greetinx,
C.

That is quite a wide spread. Gemini is essentially very good at producing decent quality Pioneer lookalikes (shoot me if I am over generalising guys!). Pioneer is, well, Pioneer. For me Denon is the ultimate “other” supplier. Prices are VERY decent, the quality is rock solid both electronically and physically.

Wish you the best in your choices.

Greetinx,
C.

Hey, we both know they are not all that marketing-driven (my only gripe with them, not strong marketing, not strong brand-building, not aggressive “let us in the booth”-attitude, techie-style webite, etx.). If it works and works well, we don’t need a new one that looks better/different/more up-to-date but doesn’t offer enough new functionality after only 2-3 years in the market. Which is good in a sense that if you choose Denon you don’t have to worry about your nice, shiney, new controller being outdated by MkII only 6 months later and bad because things tend to become a bit dated at times. There is a MkII 6000 out I think (they changed some of the switches on the back that I know of) but very hush hush. Didn’t know til I was looking for a picture of the connections on it online and saw they differed from my 6000.

As far as the jog quality goes, what I understood (but I think they read this forum, so I am sure someone will correct me if necessary) the basic premise of Denon jogs on both the MC-series and the SC-2900 is to have direct platter/axis connectivity. I.e. no extra levers, cogs and other stuff between your fingers on the jog and the electronics that send the impulses. No extra wear/tear/defect points and nothing to create a less tight feeling. I find the MC6000 jogs pretty good, albeit a tad smallish. Especially on an already crowded controller. Quality-wise I don’t have too much gripe. Actually I think that underneath that big ole SC-2900 platter is the same technology as in the 6000. And the 2900 platter is tight enough for me :).

Serato-support was important to me at one point because of a possible switch to something with better beat-gridding than Traktor (for my kind of music). Obviously my focus is now on finalising on Cross for that. I can see how it would help Denon to be more attractive though. Why not be the first one to offer out of the box full native HID factory support for Traktor, Serato, VDJ and Cross AND DVS support for all of them … wouldn’t that make for a neat platform?

Greetinx,
C.

Robert Quick, post: 43346, member: 2807 wrote: So I finally got around to installing the free version of cross. From what I’ve seen so far I like it!! I downloaded the remote app for my iPad as well which looks to be great as well!!

Yep 🙂

Just a couple of questions: Have you used the automix much?? How well does it work?? Better than Traktor’s cruise mode?? The only gripe I have with Traktors cruise mode is that the volume levels when it switches songs are waaaay too loud (Brins track 2 all the way up to full volume, and then starts decreasing track 1’s volume).

Put it on once when going to the toilet. The problem with that is that I was paying attention to peeing, not to how well the automix was doing :). You could try setting the crossfader to constant volume before hitting autoplay.

Is there an option to autoload the next song into a deck like there is in Traktor?? This isn’t a dealbreaker, but it’s a very nice feature to have.

It’s one of the things I didn’t use in Traktor. My favorite setting (not seen anywhere though) would be for the deck to be cleared after a track finishes 🙂 (would even enjoy an eject button). I looked at the settings and there is not auto-load setting per se.

How well does it integrate with the MC6000/SC2900’s?? Have you used both at the same time??

I am way behind the try out curve atm (big 8 day course in July, holiday week and new project 3 days a week). So I can only tell you I tried the MC6000 mapping that comes with MixVibes and it worked flawlessly. I remember a few things be different from the Traktor/VDJ mapping, but nothing serious. The only thing worth considering is switching the play/sync button mappings if you plan on using the sync function in MixVibes more than regular play.

Overall it seem’s a lot quicker and more stable than Traktor, and I am really tempted to drop the £70 odd on it this weekend and play around with it.

Yep, as far as I DID have time to mess with it, I like it a bit more every time and discover new things too. Not sure where the 70 pounds come from. The DJ version (no DVS) is 49USD and the full version with DVS is 79 USD, still way less than 70 quid right.

Greetinx,
C.

I stand corrected. Price for Cross I quoted (and which I paid) was 79 euro. Should still be less than that in pounds I think.

According to exchange calculator: 67,37 pound. So your 70 was about right :-).

Hope I was more helpful with the rest of my reply 😀

Greetinx,
C.

Sod it, just ordered it. Will report back after I’ve got it all up and running!!!

Here’s the link to the SC2900/SC3900 Hybrid mode manual:

http://usa.d-mpro.com/DocumentMaster/US/DNSC3900_DNSC2900_ENGLISH_1.pdf

That way you don’t need timecode CD’s.

Native support for MixVibes according to this manual:

5. To select other DVS DJ application control
signals, continue to turn the Parameters knob to
select, 2.0kHz, 2.5kHz, 1.2kHz, 3.0kHz
o Select 2.5kHz for – Traktor Scratch v2.5
or higher
o Select 3.0kHz for – MixVibes Cross