I would like that the SC5000 does a bar/beat countdown from the next cue/loop back to where the song is now. Makes it easy to start the new song right on time, e.g. the intro of the new song is 8 bars thus it needs to be started 8 bars before the cue on the current song as the cue is at the start of the break.
they also make reference to the Active Loop, this would also be a very welcome addition to the player.
I would request that the Recordbox -> Engine Prime conversion when you plug in a USB with only Rekorbox on it is done to Crates rather than Playlists. It can’t be any more work and just makes sense so that the sort options are available after the conversion (not available at the moment as the conversion is done to playlists).
Beat Jump buttons: Instead of having to press Shift to search back or forward I think that a ‘press and hold’ option would be much more intuitive (and standard practice on most other players).
If this were to change then then permanent printing next to the buttons would then be incorrect. The Beat jump buttons, follow the standard of their Un-shifted function is written above the buttons, whilst their shifted function is written inversed (black letters in a white box) underneath the buttons.
The close proximity of the Shift buttons to the Beat Jump/Search buttons makes the Search function ergonomically sound also.
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Noooooooo dont change what we’ve all got used to using since the players came out.
If you just aim at “lets copy that”, “Lets copy them” all you’re doing is copying the lowest common denominator.
The worst ethic that any DJ, euqipment maker, or anyone for that matter can live by is “We’ll do it this way - why? because we’ve ALWAYS done it that way”
Changing it so that a DJ walking up to the players cant trust the labels that are hardware printed on, or beside the buttons, just because the previous DJ changed some setting or option is just gonna make that next DJ think “these are complicated, I dont understand”
I NEVER said to change it. I’m asking for an ADDITIONAL way to access the feature. One that is already established so that anyone coming from any other player would get it instantly.
Sorry, I should have said that as an ‘added’ option for search. I asked three different DJs if they could search through a track and they all intuitively long pressed the beat jump button. I really don’t see haw adding an alternative option that is ‘intuitive’ and not how Denon decide we DJs should use their stuff.
My opinion: beat jump is not search, so long press should be beat jumping but multiple times after another.
Now I’ve had some time to play with the SC5000 and Engine Prime, here are my “nice-to-haves”.
This is based on using only 1 deck - still awaiting my 2nd being fixed/replaced (nudge, nudge) 
My opinion would be! Add color waveforms on the players like the CDJ 2000 Nexus 2 !!! Thanks Denon
My opinion would be! Add color waveforms on the media players like the CDJ 2000 Nexus 2 !!! Your software already have color waveforms so why not and also serato Thanks DenonDJ
I really hope not. I really prefer the 3 colors on the Primes.
I dont think that the game is to make a copy of some other brands 5 year old player.
Prime has already gone beyond other players on the market. All the extra colors dont really give any useful info imo just a waste. threes fine, bass middle treble.
They never had that until the nexus 2 there a big difference from the nexus and nexus 2. I think it would look cool to have the color waveforms Denon engine prime have colors waveforms serato Dj have color waveforms!!!
Read the rest of the comments. I really don’t want the Pioneer or Traktor waveforms.
But it could be a setting of choice.
Unlike “Which way to display harmonic key”, or “Display remaining time or elapsed time”, the waveform cannot be a setting/option on the player.
The colours are calculated at the time of analysis, usually off-stage, by Engine Prime. If there was a setting on the player to show 16/32/64 colour variations instead, the player would have to re-calculate the waveform from scratch for each track, at the time of load, for each track analysed in a different number of colours.
I agree at least give us the option for it. Denon have it on the controller, what about serato color waveforms? Why can’t have that ?
Just curious: what’s wrong with it now? What do you miss?
If the bult in functional and three color waveforms are not appealing enough why not just get some pretty christmas tree light, some ribbons and bows and place those on the corners of the display.
Anything more than 3 colors is just cosmetic - no ones going to be able to get any significant visual information from 253 extra colors .
Because one doesn’t agree with a request or see no use for it does not mean one should knock it.
The Serato forums is littered with people going back and forth on why feature should be or shouldnt be added e.g seamless automix.
If you don’t need a feature …don’t use it.
I will like better beat gridding. The current method is very poor as I have no efficient way to correct a wrongly detected BPM on the Engine Prime software.
I did do some poking about online and the only workaround is to use Traktor + Mixed In Key to write my BPM to the Comments tag before analysing tracks in Engine Prime.
One other thing I’d like to see added:
Save the prepare list to a crate on the player. Since a track disappears from the prepared list when it’s played, it would be useful to save that list in a crate for future recall. I do this all the time in Serato.
Yeah that logic works ok for some features, something as important as the waveform shouldnt be mucked up and turned into a technicolor scrolling pool of 64 colour vomit for users who prefer the three colour version which matches the Engine Prime displays and is perfectly adequate.
If there were options for single colour, tri-colour, 8 colour, 16 colour, 32 colour, 64 colour, 256 colour etc then users could just “Dont use it” for the 6 of those options that they dont want and just use the one that is to their liking. but not is re-sampling/re-colouring delays are going to be added to each track load.
