[plug] DJay 2.0's out!
Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 11:31 am
This is for all you Macbook users out there...
For the last year, I've been using a little freeware program called DJay to do most of my spinning here in the bay area. It was developed by 3 German university kids as one of their CS projects, and works remarkably well.
They designed it to function like a battle-style DJ deck (dual turntables, crossfader, independent volumes), and designed all sorts of nice little features into it like a BPM counter, multiple audio outputs (for precueing), and realtime pitch and tempo control (for slowing down those great tracks a notch for the newbies...or speeding up Wade in the Water
).
Anyway, it looks like they've commercialized it and beefed it up some more. There's always feature bloat risk, of course, but I recommend checking it out!
$50
http://www.djay-software.com/features
For the last year, I've been using a little freeware program called DJay to do most of my spinning here in the bay area. It was developed by 3 German university kids as one of their CS projects, and works remarkably well.
They designed it to function like a battle-style DJ deck (dual turntables, crossfader, independent volumes), and designed all sorts of nice little features into it like a BPM counter, multiple audio outputs (for precueing), and realtime pitch and tempo control (for slowing down those great tracks a notch for the newbies...or speeding up Wade in the Water
).Anyway, it looks like they've commercialized it and beefed it up some more. There's always feature bloat risk, of course, but I recommend checking it out!
$50
http://www.djay-software.com/features
. It's pretty stable, and integrates well with iTunes including custom playlists. I can also preview using my Turtle Beach USB card.