Hardware improvements that I recommend to a possible Prime GO mk2

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I write this post, just in case that some DenonDJ staff reads it and maybe can suggest this to a product designer or whoever that take the decisions on how future products will be (yes I might be a foolish dreamer).

Here is a list of hardware features or improvements that I would implement (ordered by importance according to my preferences) to an hypothetical new mk2 version of the Prime GO:

  1. Ability to prelisten (cue) the aux and mic inputs.
  2. Try to reduce the size and weight as much as possible (keeping a playable system).
  3. Possiblity to send a midi clock signal via Ethernet and USB ports.
  4. Eight pads instead of 4.
  5. Control the volume of the aux input with a knob located in the main panel (not in the front panel as the cue volume / cue split knobs).
  6. Two bank of effects (as in Prime4) with the option to chain them.
  7. VU-meters (with more led-indicators) for individual channels.

A part form this hardware improvements, of course there are many things I would like to improve from a software perspective:

  1. Ability to delete songs from the collection directly from the PrimeGO.
  2. Adjust beatgrid directly from the PrimeGO.
  3. Improved effects (and much longer echo tail for any beat setting!), selectable from a user-customized list. Also, add the Pitch echo effect as in the Pioneer EFX 1000 (best effect ever!).
  4. Change key using knobs (adding a new “pitch” effect, for example).
  5. Move loops by 1 beat, without chaning the loop size.

Feel free to post your recommended improvements/features/changes/wishes if you want, so we can “dream” about the dj system of our desires…

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On the hardware.

Why not just get a prime 2?

You want more pads and fx banks yet you want the unit to be lighter. Tough ask.

Denon have released go, p2 and p4. Each one with its own target market, from what you’re saying I think you got the wrong unit, should have gone prime 2.

If you start adding in all the things you’ve mentioned then the unit would be bigger and the price point higher which in theory is the prime 2.

Not looking undermine your post as from a software perspective there’s always room to add more.

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You are right in the sense that most of the features that I am asking for are in the Prime2.

However, the prime2 is not so portable (larger, double weight) and most important: not battery-powered. If you open a PrimeGO you will find that there is plenty of empty space, so the unit could be reduced in size a lot. Also, the main panel could be also reduced a little bit, currently the knob density is quite low…

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Wouldn’t that make the interface more cluttered though?

I get what you’re saying but looking at my GO there’s hardly any space left for extra pads etc ——- unless you get rid of the jog wheels which might be good for a mk2.

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