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Because what I remember last video of the preview of vdj mr.dont know says that is the final date wich ,already gone ,so what is going on atomix.
 
Posted Sat 13 Jul 13 @ 3:53 pm
What was said was an estimate , given the current roadmap at that time with the todo list present.
And given the current roadmap at that time, the estimate was reasonable and fair.

But as we all know, future estimates are not accurate science, and things might change. New features getting added, and roadmap change. This is not uncommon at all, rather opposite - its common, all from iPhone release to Windows release.

The only thing that might differ is that Atomix/VDJ usually don't give estimates on release date, this was a one time exception.

But we are running VirtualDJ 8 daily here at Atomix, making sure it works best possible, and tweaking and adding features that will make it our new flagship for years to come, and make it rock solid and innovative.

Now, would one want it released before its optimal and where we want it to be, or wait for a product that will rock for years. And a good reason for allowing us to continue work on a best product possible when released, is of course that VDJ 7 works great. Its not like we have to hurry out a new product to fix something thats broken. And to add on that, we have had several updates to the 7.x platform while working on v.8, adding color waveforms, brand new 32 bit sound engine, new parametric Eq, limiters, and tons more ..

The time taken to make VDJ8 best possible, rock solid, and tested thoroughly - is something that will benefit you all in the end ;)
Sometimes things just take a little longer than estimated, but patience pays off. All the extra time on development of the product, means an even better and tougher tested product when released ;) Giving you all the best possible new platform for coming years ;)
 
Thanks for that very concise info on v8 ;)
For me V7 has become problematic on both computers xp and win.8 with regular read nightly crashs, on the xp machine turning of the video display does it, sorting databases also does it, refreshing cache authorizations also.
I want V8 ASAP as I expect it to officially support windows 8 .... (now 8.1) maybe windows 9 (as Microsoft h as announced they are cranking up their development cycle) by the time VDJ8 gets released ....lol.
 
Have you asked for help with your issues? I have the same software that you do, and it works on XP, Vista and 7. There are three other DJs in my club that use the same software. One uses a Mac, the other a Mac and Mac bootcamped, and the other a PC running 7. We all do seven and eight hour shifts here, so why does it work for us and not you? As I said, we all have the same software, the only difference is our machines.
 
dj-in-norway wrote :
Now, would one want it released before its optimal and where we want it to be, or wait for a product that will rock for years. And a good reason for allowing us to continue work on a best product possible when released, is of course that VDJ 7 works great. Its not like we have to hurry out a new product to fix something thats broken. And to add on that, we have had several updates to the 7.x platform while working on v.8, adding color waveforms, brand new 32 bit sound engine, new parametric Eq, limiters, and tons more ..


I totally agree on this! I'm thankfull for the stable (never crashed) v7 updates that made my VDJ life much easier! almost my whole wishlist is complete now, so I don't bother to wait for V8.
I must say I really want to check out V8 because of the new features seen in the "teaser" videos, but it's not that I'm missing something now.

And do NOT FORGET: ProUsers can upgrade FOR FREE!! Which company does that for there users?

Yeah I'm a fan of VDJ :) not from there sales department lol

 
nitebeatdisco wrote :
For me V7 has become problematic on both computers xp and win.8 with regular read nightly crashs, on the xp machine turning of the video display does it, sorting databases also does it, refreshing cache authorizations also.


This is not normal behavior at all. Unfortunately I don't see any support tickets on the subject and none of the last couple of posts from you have been about it, so I would suggest that if you are having issues you contact support or start a thread.

nitebeatdisco wrote :
I want V8 ASAP as I expect it to officially support windows 8 .... (now 8.1)


We already 'officially' support Windows 8 on current VDJ versions.
 
nitebeatdisco wrote :
Thanks for that very concise info on v8 ;)
For me V7 has become problematic on both computers xp and win.8 with regular read nightly crashs, on the xp machine turning of the video display does it,


Yea, sorry to say, but turning off your video display should never happen. That is your machine freaking out because where it was sending video, now no longer exists.
 
I did not realise Windows 8 64bit was officially supported as there is no mention of it under the "features" tab, seems not to be a recommended OS.

Supported Operating System:
MINIMUM: Microsoft® Windows XP SP3 or newer
RECOMMENDED: Microsoft® Windows 7 Professional 32-bit
Microsoft® Windows 95, 98, ME, or older are not supported


I plug into the Venues main screen HDMI input, but on the occasion mentioned it was turned off towards end of night by bar staff, crashing
my main gig computer.

My problems began after purchasing a laptop as a backup computer and in using, syncing, each computers external usb3 1TB hard drives.
 
the purpose of 64 bit Operating systems is so you can utilize more than 3.75Gb of Ram and you can use multi-core hyper threading for multi tasking. VDJ doesn't support it so there is no difference in using 64 or 32 bit OS.
 
nitebeatdisco wrote :
I did not realise Windows 8 64bit was officially supported as there is no mention of it under the "features" tab, seems not to be a recommended OS.

Supported Operating System:
MINIMUM: Microsoft® Windows XP SP3 or newer
RECOMMENDED: Microsoft® Windows 7 Professional 32-bit
Microsoft® Windows 95, 98, ME, or older are not supported


It runs on 32 and 64bit Windows 8 and supports multi-touch. Is it 64bit? No. Is that a problem? No. It's the same with Windows 7, works fine on 64bit installs there too - just no multi-touch ;-)

nitebeatdisco wrote :
I plug into the Venues main screen HDMI input, but on the occasion mentioned it was turned off towards end of night by bar staff, crashing my main gig computer.


So the venue turns off the screen. That triggers some electrical signal down the HDMI cable and crashes your computer. But it's VDJ that's at fault. How?

nitebeatdisco wrote :
My problems began after purchasing a laptop as a backup computer and in using, syncing, each computers external usb3 1TB hard drives.


That last statement doesn't make any sense. Why would "copying/syncing files" affect your main gig machine? I think your looking for problems in all the wrong places...

Cheers,

Roy
 
GadgetMan wrote :
nitebeatdisco wrote :
I did not realise Windows 8 64bit was officially supported as there is no mention of it under the "features" tab, seems not to be a recommended OS.

Supported Operating System:
MINIMUM: Microsoft® Windows XP SP3 or newer
RECOMMENDED: Microsoft® Windows 7 Professional 32-bit
Microsoft® Windows 95, 98, ME, or older are not supported


It runs on 32 and 64bit Windows 8 and supports multi-touch. Is it 64bit? No. Is that a problem? No. It's the same with Windows 7, works fine on 64bit installs there too - just no multi-touch ;-)


Was only pointing out Windows 8 is not the "recommended" operating system, I hope that will change under VDJ8, thanks for the additional info.

GadgetMan wrote :
nitebeatdisco wrote :
I plug into the Venues main screen HDMI input, but on the occasion mentioned it was turned off towards end of night by bar staff, crashing my main gig computer.


So the venue turns off the screen. That triggers some electrical signal down the HDMI cable and crashes your computer. But it's VDJ that's at fault. How?


I've since heard it said that HDMI is often problematic due to the Feedback to the computer, earlier video connection standards being preferred?

GadgetMan wrote :
nitebeatdisco wrote :
My problems began after purchasing a laptop as a backup computer and in using, syncing, each computers external usb3 1TB hard drives.


That last statement doesn't make any sense. Why would "copying/syncing files" affect your main gig machine? I think your looking for problems in all the wrong places...


When I had one computer I had one external hard-drive (and a backup) now I use two drives with different names (letsparty1,letsparty2)
and different drive letters, any changes made to one drive I manually make to the other.
Ive noticed that 1 drive is assigned a different letter depending on the computer it is used in! very confusing.

Would it be better to have a master drive kept at home and make 2 copies 1 on each drive using the same drive letters and drive name?

It may not be totally VDJ fault regarding crashes, but I often have different search results under "browser" for different drives in different computers neither corresponding to what I know is there, in terms of music, video's, karaoke.
and when adding to search database or check clean fix under browser I get crashes and freezing.
 
If using Windows you can use the disk manager to assign the drive letters. Windows then remembers this and re-assigns each time.

The only issue is if you use the same drive letter for each - independently - but then try and use them at the same time. Windows will then re-assign the drive you plugged in second.

This will only affect your playlist/history files (possibly virtual folders) as VDJ.handle drive changes in the database on load.

Cheers,

Roy
 
nitebeatdisco wrote :


When I had one computer I had one external hard-drive (and a backup) now I use two drives with different names (letsparty1,letsparty2)
and different drive letters, any changes made to one drive I manually make to the other.
Ive noticed that 1 drive is assigned a different letter depending on the computer it is used in! very confusing.

Would it be better to have a master drive kept at home and make 2 copies 1 on each drive using the same drive letters and drive name?

It may not be totally VDJ fault regarding crashes, but I often have different search results under "browser" for different drives in different computers neither corresponding to what I know is there, in terms of music, video's, karaoke.
and when adding to search database or check clean fix under browser I get crashes and freezing.



As above.
Use disk manager to manually assign drive letters on your drives. Also prefer letters like Q,R,S,T,...,Z that usually are not taken up automatically by Windows ;)
 
Thanks for the update
 


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