Djay Pro Ipad Split Output
Make no mistake: with the right software, the iPad will eventually become a DJ’s dream — Apple’s iOS 4.2 made the multi-touch tablet even more useful as a tool for blending together multiple audio streams at once, enabling third-party applications to load and mix multiple songs from its iPod music library. Capitalizing on iOS 4.2’s improvements, German developer Algoriddim has just released Djay for iPad ($20), a new application that places you in control of two turntables, a mixing board, and recording capabilities, basic DJ tools that show how potent the iPad can be as a remixing tool in the right hands. At version 1.0, Djay winds up straddling the “novice/professional” fence in interesting ways, offering pro DJs a convenient way to experiment with and practice sets while on the road, while giving amateurs just enough power to feel inadequate for even trying to mimic famous turntablists such as Fatboy Slim, Mark Ronson, and DJ Tiesto.
Algoriddim deserves significant credit for getting the basics of its iPad user interface right straight out of the gate. The twin turntables are so obviously labeled with icons and clean text that a first-time deejay can figure out within half an hour how everything works: add a song of your choice using the “musical note +” button and a modal overlay of your iPad’s music library—including music videos—then perform live scratching, skipping, and rewinding on the track as its album artwork spins. When you’re ready for the next challenge, call up a second song on the adjacent turntable, choose how loud or soft you want it to be relative to the first track, and sync the tracks so that they sound great together. You can listen to each track and use your fingers on the turntables to sync them up, as a pro DJ would, or examine a waveform at the top of the screen as it expands and contracts in realtime to let you know where you are within a song, and what’s coming up next.
Djay makes tempo adjustment easy: a slider next to each turntable lets you manually slow down or speed up the beat, auto-analyzing each track’s beats per minute after roughly 20 seconds of playback, while a “sync” button matches the speed of the left turntable as closely as possible to the right one or vice versa. A set of + and – buttons perform temporary speed-ups and -downs until you release them, while power-off lights on the turntable let the music gradually slow down and fade out rather than abruptly stopping. Volume sliders at the top of the screen let you independently adjust the levels of the two tracks, and the mixing slider at the bottom brings more or less of each song into the combined audio stream. You can also set cue points for each song and return to them with one button press, the closest Djay currently comes to looping, and an EQ icon lets you use a three-band equalizer to bring the lows, mids, and highs up or down independently, and play with the gain to bring down or blow out each audio signal.
The app handles each of these things with hardly a pause, grabbing and starting new songs within a second or two of your tap-based selection, then playing smoothly until and unless you interrupt their flow. Except for a single crash we experienced in our first outing with the app, we found that our own skill in choosing the right songs was far more of an encumbrance to making great mixes than anything in the software. Sonically, dJay does a good job with audio output, gently transitioning between tracks with nice fades, or using more dramatic backspinning, breaking, or reversing out as you prefer. Only skipping around within a track’s waveform adds a little previewing jitter to the signal, which is avoidable if you tilt over to the other turntable or lower the volume level while you’re skipping around. We also noticed that a “low memory” warning infrequently replaced the waveform of one of our tracks, disappearing after it loaded the next track; it happened a handful of times on two iPads, but didn’t stop the flow of the music, just the visualization of the waveforms. Djay also supports multitasking, running in the background while you’re using other apps, though it effectively turns into a plain music player in the process; effect-laden transitions disappear between songs, and when on automix, the iPad’s multitasking play/pause button doesn’t work.
Dec 16, 2018 I just got the new 2018 12,9 iPad Pro with USB-C. (DJay or inetrnal drivers) in the meantime? Ok, I just tested the TRAKTOR Audio 2 MK2 with the Traktor DJ iPhone app and it's not possible to use the split output! If I try it with a split cable, it works (but mono). All you need is a stereo/mono split cable, and djay will send the master output to the left channel and the cue output to the right channel (which is always the opposite turntable to the. Dec 12, 2018 Djay for iOS is available at the App Store today and the Pro version is accessible as an in-app purchase. While this $5-per-month subscription fee may up the ante for users, you do get a lot of. Dec 18, 2012. Improved Ableton Link integration: you can now synchronize the output of djay running on your iOS device with djay Pro for Mac. Lots of fixes and improvements Version 3.3.1:. Bugfixes and improvements Thank you for using djay! If you enjoy the app please support us by rating it on the App Store. We look forward to your feedback!
Algoriddim has been sparing with little frilly touches, apart from a moving, repositionable arm on each turntable, which while not purely cosmetic is far less useful on faux albums, becoming a little more handy if you use settings menus to add a tape marker to the album. The settings also provide access to other features, such as a master volume slider for use with a slightly laggy AirPlay wireless broadcasting feature, an option for split output pre-cueing with an audio adapter accessory—mono pre-cue in one channel for headphones, mono mix in the other channel for output—and added controls over transition effects, speed, and performance of just-loaded songs. Pro DJs will appreciate these settings more than amateurs, though it goes without saying that they could be even better and more numerous. Simplicity was the name of the game in this release rather than depth: recordings can be created with a single button press, and played back with two more, but possibly due to piracy concerns, there’s no way to e-mail out a mix directly from the device. Also missing in action are the ability to queue up separate playlists for live mixing, add more dramatic filters to tracks, auto-loop all or a part of a track, or insert samples of any sort into the playback.
Despite the omissions mentioned above, Djay represents a good first stab at offering real DJ mixing software on the iPad. Novices will find the collection of tools included in version 1.0 to be overwhelming—more than enough to get started with the basics of scratching, mixing, and tempo-shifting songs. After getting past the brief initial learning curve with the interface, even the limited collection of possibilities will begin to feel overwhelming, giving the user a greater appreciation for the seamless blending and catchy transformations of songs achieved by famous spinners. Even when you’re equipped with your own library of favorites, the art of finding ways to bring out certain elements from one song to merge into another requires a considerable level of skill and appreciation for details. As it turns out, Djay’s “Automix” feature, which takes control over loading and transitioning between songs, may wind up being the most used button in the app for those who find themselves in over their heads after making the $20 purchase. It draws tracks from a single selected playlist, cueing them up in sequence or in shuffle mode, applying your preferred or randomized transition effects between songs, and even matching BPM if you so desire.
Our resident professional DJ was pleased rather than blown away by Djay, initially calling it a nice toy, but later describing it as a very convenient way to practice a set on a bus or train before coming back to “real” DJ gear at home or a club. Praising the value of the pre-cue feature and its ability to keep rather than gradually lose phase, he called the required hand positioning an initial challenge to deal with—a problem that’s at least as bad, if not worse, in dedicated digital DJ tools such as Tonium’s PaceMaker—and noted that people who really wanted to learn to scratch would want to do so on a dedicated mixer. Also called out for their absence were basic sampling, looping, and effects tools; modern DJs, he said, would want banks of loops and at least some sampling capabilities, but for an initial release, Djay is a good starter and practice tool as is. That it has the ability to grab songs from the iPod music library is a big deal in and of itself, as much of the software released in the past was limited to its own content, or side-loaded audio that’s not as convenient to sync.
Dec 03, 2010 Apple may introduce a 14.1-inch MacBook Pro with a mini-LED screen. App Review: Djay for iPad. Jacob Schulman. If you purchase a stereo / mono split cable, you can even enable Split Output. Not just another splitter cable, our DJ cable is wired to enable the Split Output function in djay, and simultaneously hear both what the PA is playing and the track you are cueing up. With Split Output mode enabled, djay sends the master output to the left channel, and the cue output to the right channel.
Overall, Djay is a good value for its $20 asking price, offering a streamlined and fun set of tools that will bring undaunted amateurs up to speed with the basics of DJing, while giving more experienced users an inexpensive way to practice and refine sets they want to perform later—quite possibly using more sophisticated tools. We would expect this application to become less memory warning prone and more feature-laden over time, and at that point, it wouldn’t be any surprise to find it playing a role in professional club performances; most of the pieces are already in place to make it happen.
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Company and Price
Company: Algoriddim
Website:www.Algoriddim.com
Title:Djay
Price: $20
Compatibility: iPad (2010)
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Our reader’s letter today is from Gerald, who writes: “I have an Ion Discover DJ controller. I like it a lot. I used the tips I found about a DJ splitter cable (stereo – going out to two mono) but I am struggling with the software. I do not understand the routing nor how to set up the supplied MixVibes Cross LE software to allow me to use my splitter cables. I have a gig coming up and am trying to get all my gear set up. Can you help?”
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Digital DJ Tips says:
For those of you just starting out with very cheap DJ gear, or an iPad, iPhone or even Android DJ program, you may be having great fun with your DJ program or basic controller, but wondering how the hell you get your headphones and your speakers plugged in and working independently. This ability to “cue” (to listen “secretly” to the other music source, the one that’s not playing) is fundamental to DJing, and cheap laptop controllers and all iOS/Android software doesn’t have it built-in.
If you’ve dug a bit deeper, you may have found out – like Gerald – that a DJ splitter cable can be your saviour. This semi-legendary “hack” works by splitting the stereo signal into two independent mono signals, one for each of your required outputs. Sure, you’re now playing in mono – as you plug your speakers into one of these outputs, and your headphones into the other – but it’s a little-known fact that most “real” club sound systems are in mono anyway, and it’s a very small price to pay to be able to DJ with the gear in front of you in exactly the same way all DJs do.
Trouble is, getting any old splitter cable and plugging it in and hooking up your speakers and headphones isn’t enough. Firstly, you need a DJ splitter cable (the one we recommend is here). This genuinely puts the left channel to one pseudo-stereo output and the right to the other. Having the kind of splitter cable sold to share a single headphones output on an iPod, for instance, won’t work because it sends the same thing down each of its outputs.
Secondly, you need to tell your software that’s what you’re doing. You have to find the audio output, audio routing or audio configuration settings and look for “mono split”, “split mono” or “DJ splitter” setting – the one that shows all audio going through the single PC/iOS headphones output and also shows both the speakers and headphones plugging into this. In your case, Gerald, MixVibes has a page here that tells you exactly how to do it.
And don’t forget, you have to plug the speakers and headphones into the correct sockets on your cable! If things aren’t behaving how you feel they should (eg the “cue” buttons are turning the main audio on or off, or the crossfader is affecting your headphones) try swapping the headphones and speakers over at the cable.
One final thing that sometimes confuses people about all of this is a question that goes something like: “But I’ve got four decks and a sampler, don’t I need five outputs, not two?” The reason the answer to this is “no” is that even if you had 99 decks (and Virtual DJ 7 can, folks!), the mixer section of your software mixes all of these inputs into just two – one for your headphones,a dn one for the speakers – so however complex your software audio is, you only ever need two outputs – and if you can’t afford, or simply don’t currently have, a pro DJ audio interface (or a controller with one built in), an audio splitter cable is a great way to get going, or a sensible backup to have too. I’ve had one kicking around in my gig bag for 10 years.
• Our recommended splitter cable is here; we also have an article and video that goes into this in a lot more detail here: All You Need To Know About DJ Splitter Cables