and that is good news for Prime 4 users.
When we reviewed the Prime 4, we loved it.
It's a milestone DJ controller.
Or more to the point a milestone DJ system
because you don't need a laptop,
and it really feels like
using a really sophisticated controller.
It's an awesome device.
But, but, but...
Vertical waveforms do not
cut it for a lot of DJs
who use the big screen
wide horizontal waveforms,
and the Denon DJ Prime
4's got a nice screen,
so they've gone and added them,
and now you can get them for your Prime 4.
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Right, let's dive in.
So horizontal waveforms
are where you have the
two waveforms this way
scrolling together as opposed
to the kind of Serato DVS view
from Serato Scratch Live,
which a lot of DJs still like.
But most DJ software gives you an option.
Probably all DJ software
gives you an option.
Not so on the Prime 4 until today,
because in the new firmware
upgrade that's what you get.
You get a really simple option
where you can go into the preferences
and you can select horizontal waveforms.
Now you've got that.
Now there's only room for
two waveforms on the screen,
so the active deck on each side
is the one that you
see down at the bottom.
So they've both got a
layer, decks of a layer.
So you say deck one, or deck
three, deck two, or deck four,
and then that is the deck
that you get the waveform for,
and the other one is greyed out,
which means you always know
which one you're looking at.
It's an awesome, awesome upgrade.
We think people are going to love that.
But they've added a few
more things as well,
so let's talk through those.
So very quickly they've added
BPM detection improvements.
So if you've got BPM
already in your music files,
it's been analysed somewhere else,
and you're bringing them into
the Engine Prime software
to get them ready for the Prime 4,
it will analyse them for you
by just starting off with that value.
So in other words it doesn't
have to do all the work again.
We haven't tested it,
it's a small improvement,
but it's a good one.
They've added a utility menu.
Now I really like this.
You can now swipe down from the top
and as you can see, you can
get to a few little things
that are important day to day.
So it's a bit like a
quick menu on a camera
or something like that.
It's just an easy way to get to stuff
without diving into the full menu.
I really like that as well.
And finally, they've added a
new nudge sensitivity setting.
So for DJs who found the nudge
to be a little bit too sensitive,
there's a way of making
that less sensitive now.
Or maybe you want to go the other way.
Maybe you just feel it
doesn't react quickly enough,
or well enough to your touch.
Well now you can have a choice
of four settings in there.
These are good improvements,
especially those horizontal waveforms.
But the key thing here,
and the thing you need
to take away here is,
when you buy the Prime 4
or controllers like this
which have got a computer built into them,
what you're actually getting
is something that can be
upgraded again and again
by the manufacturer.
So expect lots and lots
of firmware upgrades
for this device
and for other devices there's no doubt
are going to arrive in the same family.
It's an awesome development
when you have DJ gear
which is based around
a computer inside it
rather than just, you know,
something that can't be
upgraded, and can't be changed,
and can't be improved overtime.
We love it, but what do you think?
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