ITCH Release Notes

Features:

• SP-6 Sample Player
• Brand Spanking New Look and Feel
• Performance Modes (Library View, Vertical Waveforms and Stack Mode)
• Day & Night Mode
• Album Art Views
• Smart Crates
• File Migration
• Serato Playlists
• New & Improved Serato Smart Sync

Other Changes / Smaller Features:

• Beatgrid Lock
• View buttons for (Xone:DX, NS6 and Twitch) now cycle through the performance modes.
• 4-deck Instant Doubles.
• Hot Cue Fader Start (When fader start is enabled and a cue point is set or triggered, the temp cue is set to that cue point's position).
• Slider added for font size.
• Shared Preferences.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed Vestax VCI-300 MK1 firmware corruption issue
• Fixed Crossfader Reverse Keyboard shortcut (ctrl-shift-r).
• Changes made to minimize distortion in recordings when playing at loud levels.
• Corrected Continuous Mode behavior so that when you move past the beginning of a song while in this mode, the previous song doesn’t load.
• Fixed Play button to flash at half the speed of the Cue button for all controllers supported with 1.7.
• You can no longer drag a deck onto itself to reload or instant double the song.
• Fixed miscellaneous crashes experienced by some users including when: relocating lost files, loading songs and exiting ITCH.
• Fixed bug where the scroll bar arrows would be slow to react when ITCH is reading large libraries.
• Fixed "[" and "'" keys for looping.
• Fixed Windows crashes on start up when a database/crate contained a file with a file path greater than 259 characters.
• Fix for sleeping, disconnecting controller and then waking up Macbook incorrectly whilst staying in connected mode.

Numark Controller Specific:

• Decreased probability of spontaneous firmware updates with the NS7/V7.
• Fixed shift shortcuts to jump to a specific loop slot.
• Fixed Loop Select shift function to reloop as it did in ITCH version 1.5 and to turn off the shift/delete button.
• Stopped selected track from being added to the Prepare crate when hot-plugging or starting up with the controller connected.

NS6 Specific:

• Fixed bug where switching between Platter modes (Scratch and Jog) while using Skip could give unexpected results.
• New NS6 Firmware Version 1.18 with improved performance

V7 Specific:

• Fixed limiter triggering on the V7 when playing full scale tracks with 0db headroom

Xone:DX Specific:

• Fixed issue where Shift button goes into the wrong state if holding it down while switching layer.
• Beat Grid Enable option is able to be enabled/disabled instead of always being on.

DDJ-S1 Specific:

• Fixed bug where the Vinyl Speed Adjust knob would instantly be applied to braking, but not acceleration.
• Fixed bug where Slip mode would not deactivate when moving to hardware disconnected mode.
• Fixed problem with Slip mode where ghost playhead could sometimes be using the wrong velocity while scratching.

FX Specific:

• Reduced pops created when switching effects and turning them on and off.

Known Issues:

• A crash may occur when hotplugging between ITCH Controllers.