![]() One thing I didn't find in the very rich app was pitch bending it seems you can do this with external controllers, but not in the software. It's not something that all DJ software can do, and in my testing, I didn't hear any sound degradation, though lowering or raising the key of a vocal track too much can make the singer sound unnatural. One of the best things about djay Pro is how easy it makes matching key and tempo between tracks. The song-count link offers to analyze your music, but the mixing and effects work whether you go through this ahead of time or in real time. Competitor edjing 5 (Opens in a new window) takes an approach that requires fewer taps: Just tap on the deck now playing button, and your song list drops down from which a single tap gets it onto the deck. You can also simply drag the track to the deck's song thumbnail. That's actually four taps, which is a lot in the heat of spinning for a party or club. ![]() Sending a song to one of the decks is a simple matter of right-clicking and choosing which deck to send it to, tapping the song entry and then choosing to send it to the deck from the overflow menu. And to hook up your Spotify tunage, you need a Premium account. To get your iTunes Library to show up in djay Pro, you open iTunes' applications setting and enable XML sharing. It doesn't let you add your Groove or SoundCloud libraries, though competitor edjing 5 does the latter seamlessly. ![]() But who uses local music files anymore? Luckily, buttons let you switch the song list to your Spotify or iTunes libraries. You can access Windows Media Player playlists, find any music files in on-disk folders, and even search for songs. As soon as you open the app, you'll see music listed as potential scratch fodder along the bottom of the window. For example, red represents bass notes, and blue is for high pitches.Īlong the bottom of the screen are your song sources. And the colors are more than just pretty: Different colors represent different musical events. The waveforms are very colorful, and help you determine loud points in a song as well as see where the beats are. The waveforms can display either horizontally across the app window or vertically scrolling up. There are two disc views, one that resembles a realistic Technics turntable, and one a simple geometric disk. You can view them in either waveform or disc modes. You get two or four decks, and two video decks. Music-Making InterfaceĪt the top of the program window are the two virtual turntables. You can set Exclusive mode for this, meaning other sound sources won't be able to interrupt, and you can choose External mixer mode split output. Setting up an external audio device such as a MIDI controller or speaker takes a couple more steps, but is still pretty simple. Of course, the Asus all-in-one didn't support on-screen use of the Surface Dial. I tested the app on a Surface Studio ($99.99 at Amazon UK) (Opens in a new window), as well as on an Asus Zen AiO Pro Z240IC, and a Surface Book running Windows 10 Creators Update. (Opens in a new window) Read Our Microsoft Groove Music Review Djay, too, can cost more than the initial price, as it offers in-app filter effect purchases. It's suitable for professional DJs, and is priced more along the lines of Serato (Opens in a new window), a popular competitor, which starts at $50 and goes up to $300 for its entire squadron of effects and tools. But djay Pro is on a far different plane, as its name suggest. You can get plenty of other DJ apps there, and most are $4.99 or less. The only way to get the Dial-compatible app is as a $49.99 Windows Store purchase. The app has been available for iOS and macOS for several years, but the Surface Studio is uniquely suited to djay Pro, providing both the visual and tactile interfaces that bring this very cool software's capabilities to the fore. The new Algoriddim djay Pro app for Windows 10 ($99.99 at Amazon UK) (Opens in a new window), with its support for Microsoft's Surface Dial and the new Surface Studio all-in-one PC, fulfills those needs. They want to feel the scratch and turn the knobs.
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