Which DJ-Software can you recommend?

Discussion in 'DJ' started by cheeseman909, Aug 8, 2018.

  1. Roboto

    Roboto Producer

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    Rekordbox DJ if you're planning to use CDJ at some point (your library will be ready to export).
    Traktor if not.
     
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  3. Burninstar

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    I have been a pro DJ for 20 years using Virtual DJ. Easy to use and very Powerful.
     
  4. dwilliams

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    This can be quite difficult to answer as there are many apps to choose from. You can check http://clubdjpro.com/ to find out the best DJ mixing software at the moment. Have a nice day!
     
  5. The Revenant

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    If you want to be proud of your mixing job - for your own satisfaction or to impress the entire world -, do it in the "old-school" way: use two CDs or vinyl turntables, a mixer, a simple software recorder, and limit yourself to basic Cut & Paste editing, as we've all done in those reels and scissors' good old days...

    Now, if you plan to achieve the "ultimate" mixtape, then forget all the DJing software (even Traktor), and go straight for a DAW or a multitrack editor instead. Because as soon as you will correct your most obvious error, you will be tempted to correct and polish everything else... until perfection. So why bother to mix manually, if it's to do a deep editing afterwards?

    True.

    One of the most important (and very rare) skill for a DJ is to be able, with the sole help of his ears, to feel which songs will match with this particular one. As a general rule, when a song requires extreme settings, the best way to be sure to preserve its sound quality is... to reorder your playlist, or even discard the song if it doesn't fit anywhere else.

    Another way to proceed is to timestretch your tracks with iZotope RX (super easy and fast), which by the way contains one of the very best algorithm (Radius), and manually correct small tempo variations in your DAW during the mixing task.

    If you're in a rush (or really lazy), there is a third option: Acid Pro. This old grandpa is super intuitive and its sound quality will not disappoint the average audience.

    Good luck.
     
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  6. deejay_willy

    deejay_willy Newbie

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    saltwater is a million percent right in this point
    how powerful you are in mixing a cdj will never ever be easier or faster than a software
     
  7. Illadelph

    Illadelph Producer

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    Christ, so i could become a valuable asset in the DJ community and even the world, if i can play a nice little song, over another song?

    But if you mean to physically feel everything with my ears,, nope, i aint doing it. i keep my ears very clean & safe brother
     
  8. curtified

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    I've been using Serato for over a decade. The new versions are so good! They have sync and key lock. It's stripped-down and easy. You do need hardware with it but I highly recommend it!

    To what everyone is saying about being a good dj those skills will come. Just like if u were to pick up a guitar and learn it. You might sound like Jimmy Hendrix or Kurt Cobain over time. Who knows?
     
  9. itisntreal

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    for live alcatech's bpm studio will do the trick old but gold
    for pre recorded mixes you can use ableton or mixmeister the only downsite is you can hear the track is resampled with bigger tempo changes
    with mixmeister you can also use vst's just create a vst folder in the mixmeister folder and install only 32bit vst's beware mixmeister wil not accept all plugins izotope ozone works
     
  10. babubhaiya382

    babubhaiya382 Newbie

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    I have seen DJs using Live, Traktor and Serato, and from what I remember, for the more extreme settings, Serato was the only one delivering acceptable time stretching results. 9apps cartoon hd
     
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  11. Anubhav Ukil

    Anubhav Ukil Producer

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    I think Rekordbox is cool.
    It is by pioneer and by far, matches perfectly with Pioneer's CDJ, that is the industry standard (I know, monopoly), no matter, how bad the company's product advancements have become.

    Rekordbox doesn't have the side by side view (the view we get with CDJs where two waveforms horizontal and side by side and not on top of each other) and I guess that is Rekordbox's only drawback.
    Otherwise, Rekordbox gives you 8 Hot cues as well as 10 memory cues. You can save loop or non loop to both hot cue and memory cue.
    Sync and keylock are there on Rekordbox as well.
    I love intelligent playlist feature of Rekordbox. The analysis is good and with fast CPUs it becomes really a fast phenomenon.
    Rekordbox is really good if you happen to have one of Pioneer's controllers.
    Otherwise, yeah, VirtualDJ is good.
     
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