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#5 I'd like to suggest an entirely different GUI layout than what has previously been offered to us by Serato. Have any of your people taken a good look at Torq II? They have two, or four vertical virtual decks, representing your corresponding controller decks in the same positions and order, with the live vertical waveforms in the center..
Correction; the live waveforms are not vertical in Torq. However, if I could design it my way, they would be.
Maybe no one else has this problem, but for me, it's hard to correlate left to upper - down to lower, etc... Put everything in the right position and order, and there'll be no more need for different deck colors, etc...
#8 Something else I'd like to see changed/improved, is the cue-point indicators in Serato software. Maybe if you only have three or four cue-point settings available, colors would be an adequate indication of which one is which in relation to the cue buttons themselves. However, when you have as many as eight now to keep up with, it is no longer a viable option. Please consider numbered flags, as in Traktor. That is a much better system.
#9 I understand that the spinning hand on the numberless clock-face in Serato represents the speed and position of the (virtual) revolving record. However, the speed and position of the record itself means very little to me. I can already see my records turning.
It would be much more relevant, if it represented a new musical bar, everytime it passed the twelve o'clock position. You already have it resetting to that point when it passes a new cue-point, so it shouldn't be that difficult to program in the option of depicting a 'one sweep for every 4 beats' scenario. I.E. twelve o'clock on every new downbeat. It already approaches this exact alignment at around 130 BPM. On tracks without a beatgrid, it could just default back to depicting RPM, as it already does currently.
I realize some people would undoubtedly prefer it the old way, and that you already have the little 1-2-3-4 successional blinking blue blocks, but this is a much simpler more elegant solution, and personally, I would be able to much better utilize the second option. So, if if you could make it just that; "optional", I would consider that a welcome improvement.
#10 While I am on this subject; the feature of the sweep hand changing colors to indicate the approach and passing of cue-points, is novel, but completely unusable for me... Please consider an option similar to what Pioneer has provided in the deck windows on their new SZ controller. This is a much better and more usable indicator.
