That all-in-one unit and the new 900, 600, and 500 seem to be getting ahead of themselves.
Considering I bought three of them, I hope Gemini is not abandoning the MDJ-1000 as hopeless and moving to better hardware on these newer units.
I'm still waiting for the MDJ-1000 to get a passive mode (no analysis, no moving waveform, no writing to the flash drive) so at least I can use them out in spite of whatever bugs are still present or sluggishness they have with the fancy features turned on. I think that should be step one.
Step two, in my opinion, is either getting rid of or providing the option of removing the browser split screen and album art, which currently sometimes disappears when you're on the folder at the top of a contents list. I think that will be big. They hang up a lot in the browser and the split screen obscures filenames.
After you have the option of Passive Mode and the browser can simply scroll through tracks reliably and quickly and select what you actually attempt to select, then the Link and flash drive reading issues would be on the radar. That's three. Users would at least have the most basic DJ media/CD player in one. In two, we get reliable, quick track selection and browsing... pretty important. And in three, the ability to actually use the Link feature and read all the flash drives they should be reading without resetting/rebooting or whatever they seem to be doing now.
Four could then be various misc and often inter-related (I suspect) bug fixes and tweaks. I'll group these all together.
*Add filename to the cycle of ID3 tags at the top when a track is playing.
*The glitchy, laggy, broken-sounding hot cue triggers, and various cue bugs that still manage to annoy and interrupt work flow pre-transition even if you're not trying to do anything too fancy.
*Browser track number not corresponding to the track number you select. I think this is related to the right side split screen contents often being wrong.
*I think when you exit the browser, the current browser location should default back to the spot where the playing track is located.
*I do not like the time out feature that automatically exits the browser, which is all the more aggravating with the browser hang ups and sluggishness.
After that, five, I would strongly recommend they get that pitch resolution up if possible and add back higher pitch ranges when Link is active. I'm not sure how much higher the pitch resolution can get. They don't seem like 10 bit faders even in HID, let alone 14 bit. If pitch res can't be further improved due to the hardware on the MDJ-1000, I hope the higher pitch ranges can be added back over Link. I'm not sure how much I'd use higher ranges with such low pitch resolution at those high ranges, but it seems embarrassing if I do an open deck night with these and a feature turns off when Link is used.
Long term, I would think additional refinement of the firmware could possibly improve overall responsiveness, fit & finish.
I am continuing to cross my fingers that such a prioritizing takes place and these are not abandoned.
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