Split-ear cueing on the headphone on the VSM4 ?

Well.. since no one replied.. I opened up my VSM4 and found out the split cueing does NOT work. The two sources are still being mashed together in stereo.

This is the single MOST important reason I bought this unit in the first place. I guess it's going to be returned tomorrow.

Jason: How would you want the split cueing to work? Left for Cue, right for master?

It doesn't really matter which source goes to which ear, it's matter of personal preference... as long as the two sources are SEPARATE on two different ears, not on top of each other.

On the old mixer I have, two sources are separate during cueing. As you push up the volume on the new track, the sounds are merged together on the headphone, just like the master.

On all the controllers I've played with, the two sources are ALWAYS mashed together during and after the cueing.

Now if I have Virtual DJ send its 'headphone outputs' to my computer speaker, then it's perfect!

I *could* plug my headphone into the computer speaker's headphone out but that would kill the sound from the speaker and therefore requires that I plug my headphone in and out for EACH song. That would be crazy!

OK I'll talk with the ADJ people see about doing an update for this.

Elliot

I had a conversation with "Tom" at ADJ. He knows exactly what I'm talking about. He admitted that the split cue feature written on its website was probably a mistake. He said he will email the techs overseas to find out if this is something that can be updated.

It's too mad. VSM4 looks like a great mixer and the split cueing is THE ONLY reason I spent $500 on it.

I am the tech who Tom emailed to see if we can do an update for this and I responded yes I can do this.

Elliot

Wow... small world!

On the older mixers, this feature basically splits the two sources into separate ears.

When you slowly fade in the leveler of the new song, the songs do get merged together in the headphone so you can sense the volume levels of both sources without taking off your headphone to hear the monitor or master speakers.

A lot of people I've spoken to insisted that this issue is a matter of Virtual DJ's software mapping and nothing to do with hardware itself.

Are you saying that this is actually a hardware issue, not firmware/mapping related?

The headphone cueing on the VMS4 is internal and has nothing to do with software mapping.

So when can we expect this feature implemented on VMS4?

If this does get implemented, please make it optional. I'm quite happy not to have split cueing.

Roy

I'll talk with the ADJ guys about how to implement this. We're getting various request for option settings, this being one of them.

Hopefully it gets implemented before the Denon DN-MC6000 Mixer comes out.

Whichever has the feature first will get my $$.

Between now and then, I'm stuck with the low-end Hercules MK2, which seems to be the only unit in the market that has the split-ear cue feature.

I just finished a 6 hours video mixing session with the VDJPro 7.0.2 and i have to say that the controller works great... but need some higher volume output on the master and headphones more db you know ?... and the split cue function would be great, because the disco im working now has a really bad acoustics, and the split cue monitoring is necesary... i would like to see this improvement on the nex firmware update if it is possible.

Thanx American Audio guys , youre doing just fine... but a few implementations would be great and well received !

P.D.

Sorry for my english but is my 3rd language so... sometimes im confused with some words !

thx for your posting! i dont know if split-cueing will be optional in the future, but i will forward your request.

Any update... ?

no additional info here.

Making it optional at boot up, like the POST EQ setting, would be great.