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it's pretty tough right now. the few little chunks we get from NI are of course gladly accepted. but Ray was right in the heart of the matter.. unfortunately. next to my Maschine and the Remix Decks -> do I really need a groove box? I don't know... we will see.

for me, it seems like Traktor constantly castrating it's self. i would just be happy if more hardware could be integrated and a few bug fixes added. all the new features that have recently been introduced are not finished in my opinion. Smart Playlists and the Browser Improvements come to my mind first. Parallel Waveforms before. for me both only half-finished things.

the new FX are probably already coming thanks to the collaboration with iZotope but hey, that's really not what i would expect. i can hardly believe that this is the result of the last Survey and if it is, NI (Traktor) would be well advised to listen to the pros again. or admit openly and honestly that the real top features cannot be realized with the old basic code, because otherwise the whole house of cards would collapse. to be honest, but a new filter doesn't interest me... wayne? just remove the F* words from Rays text and use that as a survey for the next two years. I'm pretty sure his post made it all the way to the top.

@Pedram_NI are you sure that you want to open this barrel and now start to respond to individual comments here? sure, if you're serious, that's probably still so welcome with everyone. but your previous performance in the old and new forum was very predictable so far. you already touched on such announcements and subsequent discussions twice in the Forum, but you didn't show up afterwards, let alone follow up on what you said with action. in December last year you announced the new Beta with the release of the new Community. it's been nearly to 3 months now. something like that just makes me angry and sorry, but for someone in your position it's just embarrassing. serious question an no affront: do you really have the time for something like that?

e.g. feed @Matt_NI / @Kaiwan_NI / @Karlos Santos and company with regular information and then leave the rest to this guys. it would fit better for everyone.

i still hope that the new Hardware that is announced will knock my socks off, but when I look back at the Z2 MKII beta program ("Survey" or whatever that was), i almost shed tears every time. that was before the mass layoffs at NI. the only thing that still comes from this time is the Maschine+ which then finally saw the light of day.

now i'm where i wanted to be with my text. if you really want to take a little lesson in communication then take a look at the Maschine Forum. they've been doing it better there for years. I can't say for sure if it's enough how they do it, but it's the same damn company! it really can't be that hard, can it?

finally: this is nothing personal and i don't want to attack anyone directly. but when I have to recognize the same patterns over and over again, it's just frustrating. I really believe that you are trying to listen to your users, but either your hands are tied because certain things are technically not feasible, or you are constantly missing the mark.

meanwhile, the distance to your competition in the market is huge. it just hurts when you love something like Traktor so much, but have to watch the other players all run away and we just (felt) stop here.