#DJAY PRO 2 MAC REVIEW FOR MAC#
#DJAY PRO 2 MAC REVIEW SOFTWARE#

With all of that said, djay is a powerful Harmonic Mixing program, and will help you find tracks that sound amazing together very quickly. In fact, about 95% of my entire music collection is in minor keys. This is something I feel can be improved for future versions, since club music is often composed in minor keys. One recommendation for using the harmonic mixing feature in djay, is that when you first start using the program, you need to turn on the option for “Distinguish Major / Minor keys” to see the track’s minor keys. One thing I noticed when I started using the program was that all of my tracks were showing up as major keys (A minor was showing up as C Major). User Tip: Turn on Distinguish Major / Minor keys in djay's Preferences On the tracks that were missed, djay usually guessed to be the relative major or minor key, not too shabby for version 1.0. djay’s key detection results and found that out of 50 of my primarily deep house and tech house tracks, djay got 36 correct, or 72% accuracy. I compared my key results which were manually keyed on the piano vs. Once you load a song onto a deck, djay analyzes the key of the track you loaded and stores the musical key into the browsers “key field.” As someone who’s a big proponent of Harmonic Mixing, even before the advent of applications like Mixed In Key, having manually keyed all of my records on the piano, I was instantly skeptical about how accurate the key detection would be in djay. Not only was the key displayed in the decks header, but you could also click on a drop down menu to shift the pitch up or down (by half steps) or even click the “match” button to match the key of one deck to the other. As someone who has worked with Yakov Vorobyev on the development of Mixed In Key, I was keen to see how Algoriddim would handle this crucial feature. The next thing that caught my attention was the Harmonic Mixing feature built into the program. » Native plug & play support and MIDI Learn » Supports external audio interfaces, headphones, and headsets for pre-cueing (USB or FireWire plug and play, custom channel assignment) » Automatic Transitions: Fade, Backspin, Brake, Reverse, Random

» Drag and Drop support for files stored on external hard drives or memory sticks » Supports songs purchased from the iTunes Store (also supports DRM protected songs, however, no recording or Audio Unit plug-ins supported with DRM) » Supports all major audio formats: MP3, AAC, AIFF, WAV, MOV, Audio-CD, and others » Browse library by: playlist, artist, album, genre, key » Multi-lingual: English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese » Multi-Touch Trackpad Support: scratch, crossfade, move slider, scrub, nudge, pitch-bend, 2D FX Pad » Online radio broadcasting using Nicecast to Live365, Shoutcast, and Icecast » Instant FX: Absorb, Drift, Sway, Crush, Punch, Twist » Audio FX: Gate, Flanger, Phaser, Reverb, Echo, Filter (Low Pass + High Pass)

» Harmonic Match: Automatic Key Detection, Key Matching and Transposing Watching the album artwork spin on the virtual “turntable” takes me back to my “picture disc” vinyl days, and gives you a visual connection to the music. You know what they say about first impressions, right? When I witnessed how they utilized album artwork on the turntable platter, the design work, and Graphical User Interface, it was love at first sight.

Algoriddim also sells a keyboard cover that has all of the programs keyboard commands, hotkeys, shortcuts and more.ĭjay's 'Picture Disc' feature puts the album artwork on the deck - Harmonic Mixing is a tremendous feature for a $20 product

#DJAY PRO 2 MAC REVIEW SOFTWARE#

While the software was probably made for internal DJ Mixing in mind, you can also use external MIDI controllers and soundcards with the program for even more control and mixing power. Recently Algoriddim just came out with a version of djay for the Mac platform, which is very affordable and I believe is great for both beginner and advanced DJs alike.

#DJAY PRO 2 MAC REVIEW FOR MAC#

The interface of Algoriddim's djay for Mac on a MacBook Pro I’ve been using the iPad application for over a year now on the Subway, Airplanes and on Road Trips in the car and its great for testing out mixes and playing DJ sets on the go. Algoriddim’s djay is a Virtual Turntable / Software DJ Application that originally debuted for the iPad and iPhone, making it possible to DJ anywhere.

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