don's dashboard

The peak meters are not really of much use since they are:

- too small. Why are they mirrored? Use the full height for clarity!
- colors are too dull, it's difficult to see the zero level since they fade to yellow, orange, then red.
- too many colors, there should be only 3 colors: bright green, bright yellow (for zero) and bright red (overload)

We need the peak meters to keep the output level consistent thru out the mix. This is achived by adjusting the gain on each track until the peak centers around zero (normally on the bass drum or snare). The "close to zero" is normally indicated by bright yellow leds. If the level gets too high above zero, this is indicated by red leds. There should be plenty of headroom though. Below zero there are only green leds. This makes for easy adjusting of the gain:

Suggestion: 3 bright green leds, 1 bright yellow led (zero), 2 bright red leds. And no shades! and skip the mirroring. Make it clear and visible!

Thanks,

Don

PMD:
* The new firmware seem to only display track TITLES when sorting on CASE in the tracklist. I think they used to show the Artist+Title before. The problem is that they are still sorted on the Artist, although the Artist is not displayed, so it's simply just a big mess. Fix it!

* Pitch adjustment (P-up + touchpad) is too sensitive. Doing fine adjustment in the 0.1 % range is finically and tedious work and a mistake easily wipes out adjustment. A sensitivity setting with maybe 3 different levels would be neat. I guess something along 2% per 360 degrees (full turn on the touch dial) would be satisfactory for most DJ's (in contrast to the current 6-7% per turn).

* When accessing effects together with P-up, after releasing the touchpad while still holding P-up the PMD imediately comes back to Pitch mode. I doubt this is what most people want and allows for dramatically altering the pitch instead of tweaking the effect if not careful "while in the heat" since releasing the touchpad even for a split second puts you in Pitch mode. Oops! The PMD should stay in effect mode until the P-up is released, for stability.

* Fast forward and reverse should emulate the Pioneer CDJ 800/1000. Now it's pretty much useless, being all too slow.

* Track preview 'a la CDJ 1000 please!

* Option to chose Default file list filter in PMD.

* Option to automatically remove tracks from PMD when deleting a case

PME:

* Files dropped to a Case from Explorer are not checked for duplicates - duplicates are added silently

* Files dropped to a Case from Explorer (may) end up unsorted and this will be reflected to the PMD. Re-Sorting in PME & Syncing does not translate to the track list in PMD, they will still be unsorted.

* Ability to drop (multiple) SUBDIRECTORIES from Explorer to Case/lib

* See what Case(s) a track belongs to in the PME

* Option to Right-click on a Case in the Device/Cases list to Remove

* Option to Right-click on a Case in the Device/Cases list to Sync that Case only

* Option to automatically remove tracks from library when deleting a case

* SYNC ALL BUTTON! WTF! You removed the only thing that was right with the Editor.

* Make the UI consistant, as it's not. One-click aproach mixed with right-click menus and so on.

Regards,

Don