I guess this is a question for the Denon Staff more than everyone else but all comments/replies welcome.
I understand the pro go is a cheap unit compared to most but can’t help thinking that the small pitch faders are made even smaller by the deadzone coming off the centre lock (not using sync btw)
There’s at least a good 5mm movement (either way) coming off lock position before the bpm changes even registers a movement which makes an already small pitch fader have an even smaller range.
I know you can increase the pitch range (8,10,12etc) but that’s not what I’m discussing here, besides the higher you go the less you can make finer adjustments.
I presume/hope this can be sorted via software instead of hardware as technically there is no mechanical platter to which needs to be sped up/slowed down so it must be a digital signal to which can be adjusted to reduce the deadzone?
I’m all ears if I’ve got the wrong end of the stick regarding this but any information is grateful.
It’s possibly just the component itself that isn’t manufactured to the same standard as higher end components. The ‘click’ in the middle is created by bearings if I recall and those have to disengage.
I played a vinyl gig last week with one mk2 and one mk3 1210, the mk2 was a nightmare around the 0 mark on the pitch fader, unfortunately I think this is just the way it is with clicky pitches.
Thought that might be the case, I remember the mk2s having a center lock & the mk3s having a button lock. good job I mix my D&B at a slightly faster rate so I stay away from the centre anyway but like I said just wondered that’s all.
I’d check my Mixtrack pro but the faders on it are quite long and only sending midi to Serato not sure it’s comparable.
With devices like the Numark I always wonder with the power of engine and the high res screen, what have they done to keep the price down to the level it is, and the components are the first port of call.
Would’ve thought a digital signal button lock would’ve been cheaper than a mechanical centre lock, although considering how small the pitch faders are I’m surprised there’s any lock at all & not just smooth all the way through the range.
Anyways it is what it is, still happy with it regardless.
Numark just had wrong decisions about pro+ hardware design, and they don’t even changed that in pro go controller.
First, the build in cheap onboard speakers should be removed and instead that they should have more space to put longer pitch faders.
Not much point making a request because it won’t get voted on because it’s not actually a big deal compared to most of the other requests but rather a tweak that would help.
Regarding the pitch faders which are & let’s be honest here absolutely crap, not in the fact they’re small but mainly because they’re not actually very accurate either.
As a test I loaded the same tune onto both decks, a fairly newish D&B track at 172bpm completely straight through the bpm analysis, increased both decks to 174bpm using the lower 4% pitch range & no matter how delicate I was moving the pitch fader I couldn’t get it to match the other deck.
Not in terms of bpm shown but looking at the % increase on the display, although they both displayed 174bpm the % increase shows (example) 1.67 for one deck & 1.69 for the other & like I said no matter how delicate I am it seems to only register a 0.04% movement increase so you can never truly match it up.
This forces you in a way to use sync, not bar or beat sync but tempo sync, now fair enough a lot of people will say just rely on your vinyl skills to make slight adjustment & I agree coming from the vinyl days but who thought that adding the option to increase pitch range to 50% & 100% on a Mixstream was a good idea when it would’ve been far more useful to actually let us go lower than the base 4% with a 2% or even a 1% option to help with the terrible sensitivity on an already small pitch fader.
InMusic/Denon/Numark whoever surly this is to do with software not mechanical so it should be possible to implement this via an update yes?
An option to decrease pitch range from the current lowest setting of 4% to 2% or even 1% for better accuracy.