I don’t think you understand marketing then. It’s completely normal to space out product releases in order to create excitement for each one. InMusic could have a Prime 4 Ultra ready to go and simply decide to wait a couple of months until the excitement for the System One has died down.
I also don’t understand the complaints about the new firmware features not being immediately available for older hardware. It makes sense that they put all their efforts in perfecting the new features for the System One, before backporting them to older devices. And why would you wait to release a new device, until all older devices have those features?
One thing that does make me a bit uncomfortable right now is that we have a fork, with different firmware paths depending on the hardware. I really hope that gets resolved soon. Especially because I’m hoping an SD card prepared for the Control One will also be usable on a Prime 4. That kind of interoperability really matters to me.
That said, I do want to add some perspective. A few years back, Roland had one of their 808 Day events where they dumped an enormous amount of new gear onto the market all at once. Every hour there was another product announcement. I believe the DJ controllers were introduced that same day as well. Does anyone actually remember the details? Probably not, because it was simply too much information at once, and right in the middle of summer too.
With that lesson in mind, it feels completely logical to me that inMusic is spreading the reveal of new hardware across multiple moments and channels. Whatever the new hardware turns out to be, it’s clear they want to give it the attention it deserves. That, honestly, makes me happy.
Honestly, it would be kind of cool if Denon just came out and said: yes, we’re working on the new firmware; yes, the Prime 4+ will get RGB waveforms etc.; no, the Prime 4 won’t anymore; we’re working hard to implement all features, but either it won’t happen due to limited hardware power, or it will happen, it just takes time.
That would be pretty cool and would stop all the speculation. Although it would probably also trigger a lot of rage. Maybe they’re also thinking: let people speculate and get heated - that’s actually very good marketing.
This is a pretty bold statement.
So… Some sort of update will come to all hardware. We just have to be patient while marketing, legal, devs and sales work out the specifics among themselves.
It’s a probability; it contains more information with a whole host of color nuances, so it generates a larger data stream for the system to process. Keep in mind that older devices also need to be able to analyze your tracks independently, for example, when using a rekordbox stick. Therefore, they also need to be able to generate these RGB waveforms.
Yeah, but your Pentium 3 700 MHz was paired with a dedicated GPU back then. Maybe Serato was already using GPUs with DirectX instructions to render waveforms, not the CPU. Who knows? You can’t compare a Pentium 3 700 MHz paired with a GPU from that era with a SoC designed for mobile devices where energy efficiency was the priority.
Both RGB and Tri-Band use 3 frequency filters. Ideally, you use the same filter config and source data for both. See Mixxx. It’s just the rendering stage that differs and does not necessarily require more resources. The GPU will take care of the color blending, an easy task.
I don’t understand why they require re-analysis. They probably copied the Serato filter config that differs from the Engine Tri-Band filter config. Now they have to store both waveform data
That’s a good point, and it’s also an additional technical constraint.
We’ll see. Personally, I prefer tri-band because I find it more readable than RGB. However, I admit I would have preferred the option to choose the colors for each band, or at least several preset color schemes other than Green/Blue/White. In this case, it’s simply a matter of changing the hexadecimal code of the color for the band of your choice, which is a simple operation.
If we have the choice between tri-band with the current colors and RGB, I’ll stick with tri-band.
Did you perhaps mean to say that in-music gave away the requests made for our Denon products to rane ? That is, to people who never asked for them! Instead of satisfying those who made the requests!
Rane was the last inMusic brand with no EngineDJ inside, I think they wanted to level up the game with Rane in order to bring a breakthrough paradigm with famous “real” DJs involved, the impact is higher than if Denon or Numark have launched first these improvements.
In Mojaxx Namm 2025 video, Jay from inMusic said inMusic has never had such amount of products in development, so for sure Denon and Numark are the next ones !
Does the track preview will work with Serato DJ and DJAY Pro ?
Will VDJ support this unit ? What about VDJ custom UI on the unit since the previous inMusic units can display almost everything that VDJ brings (video mix, more track info…etc)
Since Serato DJ and DJAY Pro are now considered arr exteranl sources, when the laptop or apple Device will be disconnected, does the track will be kept in cache like for the other media sources (this would help a LOT dj transitioning) ???
Last week it was still available. Now out of store list in Germany. Maybe things happen:face_with_peeking_eye: