Phase Team
Published on
March 17, 2026
Since we announced Phase Pro at NAMM 2025, the anticipation surrounding it has been incredible. That announcement was a milestone for us, and we know many of you have been eagerly waiting for the release ever since.
One year later, the product is still not out, despite our initial ambition to launch it just six months after NAMM.
During this time, we’ve remained mostly silent, staying heads-down and fully focused on building the product of our dreams.
Looking back, we realize we never truly explained what has been happening behind the scenes. So today, instead of another brief update, we wanted to take the time to share the full story of what Phase Pro really is, and why it has become the biggest challenge we’ve ever faced.
If you’re ready to dive deep into our journey, we invite you to keep reading. 😌
Back in 2021, a few years after the success of Phase Essential, we started asking ourselves:
What is the next challenge? What new value can we bring to the table?
At the time, we were regularly receiving messages from the most demanding DJs asking for new features: massive battery life, dedicated MIDI button on the Remote, bulletproof, zero-drift accuracy and so on.
As we love to do, we turned to you.
We simply asked our community to help shape the future of Phase. And the response was overwhelming.
Thousands of DJs answered the call, sharing their vision of what the ultimate Phase could be.
It warmed our hearts, but it also highlighted a major challenge: everyone had different ideas.
Some wanted cue points, others wanted a larger LED, and some just wanted to see their battery level directly on the device.
As DJs ourselves, we should have seen this coming: every DJ is unique. Whether you scratch, mix in clubs, tour the world, or passionately practice in your bedroom, your setup and workflow are entirely your own.
That diversity is the beauty of our art and culture.The realization hit us instantly. We didn't want to force a specific form factor or a rigid set of features on DJs. We wanted to give you a blank canvas. A tool that lets you create the product you dream of using.
The theoretical solution came together quickly: a customizable touchscreen managed by new software (Phase Pro Manager), allowing you to drag and drop exactly what you want onto your screen, like building blocks.
We even involved the community in smaller testing groups to make sure the interface was intuitive and genunely useful.
But that wasn't enough.
If we were building our dream product, we had to push the performance to the absolute maximum.
A larger battery, new rotation sensors, upgraded radio technology, and a custom-built operating system - Phase OS - to orchestrate it all. We pushed every single slider to the max, testing the very limits of current technology. Naturally, this level of innovation comes at a cost, but we refused to lower our ambitions.
This had to be a "Pro" version in every sense of the word.
A product with zero compromises.
As is often the case at the beginning, things went relatively smoothly.
We completely overhauled the design, making it more compact and travel-friendly. We made it tougher, adding a reinforced aluminum casing to the Remote.
Then came the physical puzzles.
How do you fit a significantly larger battery and a screen into an already very small device without making it bigger? We found a way: by shifting the spindle hole by just a few millimeters, we freed up enough space at the front.
But this meant our internal circuit board (PCB) had to be even smaller than the original, despite packing in way more technology. We accepted the challenge, optimized everything down to the micrometer, and managed to fit the new battery, the screen, and even our new magnetic sensors inside.
We assembled the first prototypes in-house at our office. The screen lit up, and it was gorgeous!
Testing began. We realized the text remained perfectly readable even while the record was spinning. We fine-tuned the typography.
We tested the buttons: Is it practical to trigger a cue point while the record is moving, or only when stopped? Can I trigger an effect with my thumb while scratching?
Because this was entirely uncharted territory, the possibilities felt infinite. We took the time to test, iterate, and adjust. The Remotes felt exactly the way we wanted them to.
The prototypes were working. It was time to show the world. 🥹
The reveal at NAMM 2025 made some serious noise. The excitement was palpable.
We listened to everyone: the impatient fans, those requesting even more features, and even the skeptics.
Hundreds of DJs tested the product at our booth, and the feedback was unanimous: even as a prototype, the potential was undeniable.
It wasn’t perfect yet (there were a few bugs, a bit of drift) but the core magic was there.
We loved watching DJs load their custom logos onto the Remotes, trigger stems in real-time, and hit effects while scratching.
We entered the final stretch, aiming for a release in June, six months later. The team was fired up.
But things didn’t go as planned...
After the euphoria of NAMM, reality hit hard.
The global macroeconomic situation degraded rapidly, and it hit us directly.
The prices for some of Phase Pro’s core components skyrocketed. The trade war between the US and China escalated, with new tariffs being announced weekly.
Under these new conditions, releasing Phase Pro as designed would have been financial suicide. We had to completely revise our plans, or the product would be dead before it even launched.
Yet, we stuck to our golden rule: zero compromises on quality.
We spent four agonizing months completely redesigning the electronic boards to accommodate new suppliers. Thanks to the support of our historical investor, MWM, we finally secured the components needed to launch production. The hardware was saved.
All that was left was the firmware, our core expertise.
To truly understand the delay behind Phase Pro, you have to understand why the original Phase is such an insanely difficult product to build.
At first glance, it seems easy to prototype. You can get a "decent" result just by putting your iPhone on a turntable and using its gyroscope. In fact, we built our very first Phase prototype in a few weeks back in 2018.
Yet, today, seven years later, there is still no comparable product on the market.
This difficulty comes down to overcoming the "impossible triangle" of engineering:
The motion sensors (IMUs) we use are originally designed for smartphones or drones. They are absolutely not meant to track the continuous, surgical rotation of a vinyl record. By nature, these sensors accumulate micro-errors over time (known as "drift”).
In DJing, a fraction of a degree of error can ruin your performance. We have to write ultra-complex "sensor fusion" algorithms to clean the raw signal and correct this drift in real-time, accurately tracking everything from the slowest pitch bend to the fastest, most aggressive scratch.
In audio, latency is public enemy number one. A DJ's brain and hands feel the slightest delay (anything over 5-10 milliseconds).
But with Phase, the data path is long: the movement of the turntable is captured by the Remote -> analyzed by the processor -> encoded -> sent wirelessly -> received by the base (the Receiver) -> decoded -> sent via USB to the computer -> and finally read by a DJ software like Serato.
Compressing massive mathematical calculations into a microscopic timeframe requires incredibly complex software and hardware optimization. Every microsecond saved takes months of R&D.
Building a wireless device that works in your living room is easy. Building one that never drops out in a crowded club or festival is a technical nightmare.
Some might say, "Wireless microphones have done this for decades, what’s the big deal?" But there is a massive difference. Professional mics use clean, dedicated frequency bands (UHF) to send one-way audio.
Phase operates globally in the 2.4 GHz band, the exact same saturated jungle used by thousands of smartphones, Wi-Fi routers, and Bluetooth devices in a club. Furthermore, we aren't just sending audio; we are transmitting bidirectional, surgical mathematical data. If a wireless mic drops a micro-packet, you barely hear it. If Phase drops a micro-packet, your track stops or skips. That is why we can't rely on standard Bluetooth or already existing tech.
We had to build a proprietary radio protocol capable of dodging interference instantly to ensure an uninterrupted signal, because even a half-second dropout during a live set is simply unacceptable.
Combine Absolute Precision + Zero Latency + Bulletproof Wireless, shrink it down to the size of a battery, and make sure it lasts all night. That is Phase.
And now, with Phase Pro, we added a massive new variable: the Remote must now constantly communicate the real-time state of the screen, dynamically adjusting to whatever layout the DJ has created, all without ever disrupting the core performance tracking.
It is an incredibly difficult challenge. But it is not impossible.
And we are almost there.
Despite all these hurdles, we haven't been standing still.
In fact, the project has made enormous progress. We have tackled the hardest physical and supply chain challenges, and here is exactly where we are today:
So, what is left? The invisible magic: the firmware.
We are currently deep into the most critical phase, relentless testing and firmware optimization to ensure that the precision, the latency, and the wireless stability hit our zero-compromise standard.
We know the wait has been long and frustrating, but we made a promise to ourselves and to you: we will not release Phase Pro until it is absolutely perfect.
Behind Phase, there are only 10 of us. We are a small, dedicated team, and we’ve poured everything into this project.
We owe it to you, the community that has supported us from day one, to not compromise now. We will not let you down, and we are absolutely not abandoning this project.
Because we are dealing with the highest level of technical optimization, we cannot give you an exact release date today.
But we want you to know this: we are working on it every single day. We won't stop until it's done right, and it is coming.
In the meantime, we want to keep the dialogue open. If you have any questions, feedback, or just want to share your thoughts, feel free to reach out to us here. Your input is what drives us forward.
Thank you for your incredible patience, your feedback, and your trust.
— The Phase Team
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