The short version of a answer here is “everyone uses their decks differently”
The longer answer is that the more options and modes and features that a deck, or mixer, or smartphone, or microwave or (god help us) Laptop has, the number of tests needed to test EVERYTHING spirals up exponentially extremely quickly. Think of everything that a 5000 can do… now think of the 5000 being in cue/stopped/pause mode rather than playing a track, that’s instantly doubled the feature testing required.
It simply ain’t possible to test even a significant fraction of all the features, in all modes, in every preference setting, and going for the biggy here >>> in every way that every dj uses it - especially in the tiny timescales that they’re given by some, for the next and the next update.
It also doesn’t help that there are different revisions of the SC5000. My rev C sometimes crashes, which my rev D so far didn’t. But the rev D has more trouble with the SD card, where the rev C is more reliable…
I’m not completely agree with you and I’ll explain. The updates are there, because a car must progress and not retreat.
You say there are a thousand ways to use it and nobody uses it the same way … ok here I agree with you, but the functions are and must be the same for all the players of each of us.
It should not exist … and I say “should not”, that on my player the update works and on your no.
As well as the fact that if I update a function, it goes to create other problems that I did not have before.
There can not be any updates that conflict with each other … it should not happen. Also because the Denon team is not so quick to release an update to fix a problem, even more so that it takes so much time, “the problem” in the new update should not really present itself.
For example, in the last update to the Hot Cue problem, they fixed these, but somehow something was spoiled when you go to press the “censor” button. He works, but in the jog screen, we see that the indicator is blocked for a few seconds and then start again … and this should not happen.
We have recently updated our Denon DJ website and some legacy links may not be operational. Please use the below to download firmware and software updates from the new product pages:
Not to speculate wildly here, but the fact that Denon DJ seems to be majorly rehauling their main point of contact with users website is an excellent sign for those of us hoping this entire Prime ecosystem becomes something more than just ‘another DJ product’.
@Djscottyb busted (again)! In my defense I did post the above after, in a different post, implying that the screen layout for the sc5000 induced sadness. Maybe I’m just trying to be neutral…?
My system was running with 1.2.2 FW until last Saturday without big issues. But then there was an issue with starting the one player. Black Screen for several minutes. The next big issue was that the vinyl mode wasn’t working alright without touching the jogs the deck startet to stop the playback for seconds. Another point is that this FW allowed the decks to use the soundcard of the X1800 when switching the setup from Serato to USB or SD Card. There are so many bugs that I returned to 1.2 now it seems to work. I’m very unhappy with this and I regret that I haven’t gave my money to a NXS2 set.