![]() ![]() This is very much about replicating the use of real decks, even down to on/off switches and spin up/down speed and a reverse switch too. It's not especially accurate though and is merely a rough approximation - no waveform display to show the highs and lows here. The tonearm is moveable as well needle drop style. You also get the option to have ID3 artwork on the label or the whole vinyl too (like a picture disk), as well as having the track time (clickable between elapsed and remaining), artist and track name right above the deck. It's like custom slipmats but you can actually see them. You can even add a tape marker or use your own custom vinyl image. These are actual spinning platters complete with strobe lights that respond to pitch changes too. Minor issues really, especially as BPM can be manually tapped in anyway. I did detect some slight weirdness with BPM analysis on some tracks, like some Drum and Bass being half the BPM it should be, and the library listing tracks by BPM in an odd 2-step speed order. Analysis can be done on the fly, but a better approach is to analyse playlists before use. Proper playlisting is one part, but djay also lets you analyse tracks for gain, BPM and to create beat grids for perfect loops, effects integration and and sync mixing. ![]() IDEA: How about being able to turn the columns on and off without having to go 2 menus deep? And perhaps artwork too?īut like any other DJ software, much of the successful usage is down to preparation, and djay is no exception. You can also completely hide the libraryIt's a neat touch. But I discovered that the whole window not only completely scales, but also allows you to drag the middle bar on the fly to effectively minimise the decks and give over the main part of the screen to the library. Upon opening djay, I did worry that the library was incredibly cramped and quite hard to use. So no iPods, iPhones or external devices for you in djay I'm afraid. It does also seem that you can only read from the library on your Mac rather than seeing all your devices. You get columns for artist, (track) name, BPM, album, genre, year, grouping, time, composer, comments, rating, date added and track number - and you can sort your playlist by clicking the column header as well, as well as define which of these columns you want to see on screen. Once you start looking through playlists, you get a lot more info about the songs. But there's also a few handy dropdowns do you can locate albums, artists, genres, composers across all of iTunes too. As most people probably use playlists, that is djay's first port of call, and shows all smartlists, custom playlists as well as iTunes default lists too. Being entirely Mac based, and almost all Mac users slavishly using iTunes, integration is very tight between djay and iTunes.
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