djsonance
Hey yall.. I know I'm not a pro edition user yet (I will be pretty soon), but anyway heres my two cents worth on what VDJ is lacking.
1. Battery Level Display
I think that future releases should have a battery display. Heres why. I recently was doing an event, a corporate dinner and dance, and the emcee was playing some games, which required specific tracks to be played. There were all on my laptop, and I was running VDJ. Half-way into the game, my laptop shut off. Needless to say, the game had to be stopped, which was a real party pooper! What happened was, about an hour back, someone disconnected the power supply of a particular wall socket. My charger was plugged into an extension cable which was plugged into that wall socket. When VDJ was running in full screen mode, The "Low battery" pop-up notice did not show, hence I had no idea my battery was about to run out. Had there been a battery level indicator in VDJ, I probably would have noticed it decreasing and would have been able to avoid such a scenario.
2. Talk Over Button
Right now, in order to turn on and off the microphone via VDJ, I would have to go to the effects tab, select microphone control and then turn on talk over, before I'm able to actually talk over. Heres the problem with this. I have to move my mouse all over and click three or four times, before being able to say anything over the microphone. By the time I do that, the moment is gone. Talking over is something spontaneous. I wanna be able to press one button and be able to yell out to the crowd. I dont wanna go clicking all over. It kills it.
I actually do have other suggestions but I cant remember them right now. Feel free to add on your suggestions to this thread. I think VDJ is an amazing product with a lot more potential.
1. Battery Level Display
I think that future releases should have a battery display. Heres why. I recently was doing an event, a corporate dinner and dance, and the emcee was playing some games, which required specific tracks to be played. There were all on my laptop, and I was running VDJ. Half-way into the game, my laptop shut off. Needless to say, the game had to be stopped, which was a real party pooper! What happened was, about an hour back, someone disconnected the power supply of a particular wall socket. My charger was plugged into an extension cable which was plugged into that wall socket. When VDJ was running in full screen mode, The "Low battery" pop-up notice did not show, hence I had no idea my battery was about to run out. Had there been a battery level indicator in VDJ, I probably would have noticed it decreasing and would have been able to avoid such a scenario.
2. Talk Over Button
Right now, in order to turn on and off the microphone via VDJ, I would have to go to the effects tab, select microphone control and then turn on talk over, before I'm able to actually talk over. Heres the problem with this. I have to move my mouse all over and click three or four times, before being able to say anything over the microphone. By the time I do that, the moment is gone. Talking over is something spontaneous. I wanna be able to press one button and be able to yell out to the crowd. I dont wanna go clicking all over. It kills it.
I actually do have other suggestions but I cant remember them right now. Feel free to add on your suggestions to this thread. I think VDJ is an amazing product with a lot more potential.
Posté Wed 08 Oct 08 @ 2:22 pm
Rune (DJ-In-Norway)
Good ideas;)
Maybe you can post it here too:
https://virtualdj.com/forums/18/Wishes_and_new_features.html
Usually where Dev Team looks ;)
Some controllers have talk-over buttons btw, such as Hercules MK2 ...
you can also map mic_level to keyboard, or midi.. if you have such.
Posté Wed 08 Oct 08 @ 4:06 pm
DJ Andrey Seagull
I would like MASTER VST PLUG-IN. It would be nice for broadcasters.
We already have one per channel vst plug-in support. Why not make it on master out?
We already have one per channel vst plug-in support. Why not make it on master out?
Posté Thu 09 Oct 08 @ 12:40 am
SBDJ
As dj-in-norway said, you're best of posting these things in the Wishes & New Features forum, since thats what it's for - it's likely to get lost in this part of the board quite easily ;)
Posté Thu 09 Oct 08 @ 6:27 am
listen2
I was just curious about the low battery notification.
Why would you run the lappy on battery? Unless you really had no choice ( i have had to before) but it does not seem like a wise option. Also this is the reason i like to have my taskbar still visible so i can still get pop ballons if for some reason they come up. Most laptops do not run at full performance when on battery.
Why would you run the lappy on battery? Unless you really had no choice ( i have had to before) but it does not seem like a wise option. Also this is the reason i like to have my taskbar still visible so i can still get pop ballons if for some reason they come up. Most laptops do not run at full performance when on battery.
Posté Thu 09 Oct 08 @ 9:26 am
SBDJ
I also run my skin with the taskbar visible, so that I can see any issues that might be occuring - such as battery issues, as well as being able to access things like bluetooth easily :)
Posté Thu 09 Oct 08 @ 11:18 am