Hi there. I received my Jay-D and put it together and was incredibly excited to play around with it, but it doesnât appear to actually be functional from my experience. I tried emailing contact@circuitmess.com but just got a generic reply from âDoroteaâ that youâd consider the feedback for future updates.
They also said that itâs not a professional product and is intended for Educational Purposes, but I donât know how thatâs possible given the list of issues below. Please either address these properly in an email reply or feel free to address these issues here.
To change one of the 2 tracks, you need to completely stop the music while it loads the tracks stored, then load the song. I expected this to at least let you keep the other track going during this process. Is it possible to change this with software or is it a hardware limitation?
Audio can only be 64kbps AAC files. Thatâs honestly really bad for music. Is there any capability for better audio quality?
No support using the circuit blocks app yet, or any actual coding documentation/tutorials. When can we expect this? (This was the only point addressed, saying it would be out âin the upcoming few daysâ. Any specific updates on this would be great if possible)
You canât beat-match anything or âscratchâ since it only goes back and forth in 1 second steps after a brief pause in playback. Theyâre knobs, but theyâre stepped and thereâs no way to smoothly move back and forth in a track. Is this expected, and can it be fixed with software? A reply on Facebook indicated that you could scratch, so I hope this wasnât a straight-up lie.
You also canât listen to a muted track in any way to line up the beats. Is there any capability for the headphone jacket to let you listen in to a track for beat matching purposes, or is there only a single audio output across the device?
All inputs, including the sliders, are delayed noticeably. Is this a software or hardware issue?
It also keeps skipping at certain points with the preloaded songs, which really isnât good. Not sure if this is just my unit or not.
I canât imagine anyone producing anything with this device as keeps on being advertised. Can you show a video or something of someone who developed or tested this having done so? At most, thereâs a video on your YouTube channel showing someone fiddling with a few filters and crossfading once, but not actually doing anything even close to mixing music which is the primay advertised function of this product.
Again, if someone could actually address these issues, thatâd be great. Thanks.
My subscription renewed today since I forgot about it after having all these issues, and Iâd really like to cancel that if possible, especially after the unexpectedly bad functionality of the Jay-D. I also got a reply saying a refund wasnât possible due to your policies, and then asking for information on why I didnât like the âSpencerâ which is not what I ordered.
Hey of course this is not a professional mixer table, it is a âtoyâ for kids (or parents ^^) to play with electronics, solder, components, software and music in this case.
Yes it is not fully functionnal mixer (i also expected the jack output to be a secondary audio outstream) but it is educative, it aims to learn basics of electronics and software and more important than that to give TASTE to it for next generation (and ok this wonât make you the best DJ of the place)
And in my sense, and experience, it does a great great job at this !
I agree with everything the guy above said and also think heâs trippin. Both at the same time.
My explanation - while I agree this is a circuit board with some LED lights on itâŠit is NOT a mixing board , or ANYTHING THAT SHOULD HAVE THE WORD âDJâ IN FRONT OF IT. Itâs a childâs educational toy for learning about circuit boards, sadering, etc. And for that purpose, itâs great. But once you call it a pro DJ whatever ⊠real DJs will ⊠write stuff on message boards like this. Imagine making a wood carve-your-self pro golf club set and have a picture of Tiger Woods swinging a wood toothpick. So I agree with angry dude post above, itâs not DJ anything.
THAT BEING SAIDâŠ
Chill out, its a toy. If you really bought this wanting to produce and throw down some real beats and mixesâŠumâŠthereâs probably other things going on that should be addressed first.
Ok well thatâs my thoughts, hope it triggered someone to get to angrily typing!
In the meantime if youâre bored take a listen to this, which was done on a pretty somewhat professional mix board, I guessâŠ
The marketing and advertising insist that itâs something you can learn from, and use to mix music. Iâd assume itâd let you at least mix 2 tracks together in some way, but from what I can tell itâs nowhere near even close to being competently designed enough to do this.
At most, itâs a 64kbps AAC player in a box thatâs pretending to be more. Iâm all for lowfi tech (see: Pocket Operators for example, which are great fun) but this is nuts.
I kept seeing Albert (and maybe others at CM?) asking people to post videos of them mixing music with the device. I can take an easy guess as to why thereâs no such videos, not from users or from Circuitmess themselves. My bad for taking their word in good faith I guess.
I was hoping someone could at least try addressing some of the points I brought up. Replying with a blanket âWeâll take the feedback on boardâ is just weak. At this point, it tells me that itâs straight up false advertising.
Also lol at you hoping someone would get angry. Dunno why youâd want that shrug
Iâm waiting on the source code and guides to be published before taking this project further. I agree with you davecee that this device is really just for messing about with, please donât take it too seriously!
On a side note, Jay-D can handle playback of 128kbps AAC, but it does mess up the track timings. From memory, the device thinks the tracks are about 1/5 longer in time, but plays them at the correct speed (i.e. about 1/5 faster). Probably didnât explain that too well, so try it - code two identical tracks, one at 64k and one at 128k, load each on the two channels and see what happens.
@ztau, your feedback was heard and I will do my best as the CEO of CircuitMess to take it into account when publishing future software updates for the device.
Unfortunately, building and improving products takes time, and I cannot address your points immediately with a software update that is going to be published tomorrow, but we will do our best to fit it into the schedule.
We are a small but very hardworking startup, and weâre doing everything we can to deliver the best products we can.
That said, we are limited with what we can do but are working tirelessly to deliver original and unique products that will teach electronics and programming in a fun and exciting way.
Everything we deliver is unique and designed and produced from scratch by us with lots of love and passion.
This is our first music device, but weâve been getting a lot of very positive feedback, so we will keep new iterations and versions coming with all of your feedback taken into account.
I just ordered and am looking forward to mess around with it. But keeping the music going while loading another track would be very essential for having any fun playing with it I think.
