Tapping the small button near the top of the screen slides away the (beautifully rendered) turntables and reveals colorful waveforms instead. The best new feature, for me at least, is the HD Waveforms view. New waveform view with larger EQ/FX panel See the video above for a great overview of them all or check out this one on YouTube with a voiceover description. I was fortunate to get a demo from CEO Karim Morsy, a professional DJ himself who started the company in 2006 with the goal to “create a world where every person can be an artist and bring their digital media to life.” The new version has been 2 years in the making and has many new features and improvements, partly coming from feedback from the millions of users already out there. Today, Algoriddim are launching version 2 of their Djay app, which promises to be the best of both worlds and much more besides. Earlier this year, another great DJ app appeared, called Traktor DJ from Native instruments, which eschewed the skeuomorphic approach of showing the records spinning on virtual turntables and instead visualised the music as a waveform. The software was able to take care of the bit I could never do - matching the tempos of the tunes - leaving me free to get to grips with the rest of the process and have a blast at the same time. Their first version was the first one I tried, and I loved it straight away. A virtually unlimited amount of tunes to chose from and a proper live and tactile feel to the process, using apps like Algoriddim’s Djay. Of course, with the arrival of the iPad, we can now have the best of both worlds. But they never felt “real” to me, always too mechanical. Later on, when the software caught up, I was able to do it in the computer and cheat the hell out of the process, chopping up tracks and forcing them to do what I wanted. My mates all got really good at it back in the ’90s Techno era, but the majority of my music was on CD so I could never really join in the fun properly. “Everybody wants to be a DJ…” – The Magic Number by De La SoulĪin’t that the truth? Well, it is for me anyway.
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