One Of The Best DJ Software Is Virtual DJ 2011

Skins, Effects And Plugins

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Well I can say this DJ software has improved a lot  in this new version and is one of the most popular.

It’s good for almost the whole range of  DJ styles from beginners to pro to  star DJ’s, VDJ (video), Club DJ, Mobile DJ or Scratch Turntablist can enjoy it.

Check out the bottom of this post for a cool video (first one).

Here are all the features:

• Twin independent zero-latency players with:
  • Standard controls (play, pause, stop, cue)
  • Volume control
  • Pitch control (from -34 to +34%)
  • 3 band equalizers with Kill + gain
• One-click beat matching and synchronisation (new FAME algorithm)
• BeatLock engine: your songs will always stay in time, and you can work your mixes incredibly faster than any other DJ could
• Automatic beat-matched crossfading
• On-the-fly automatic BPM calculation
• Automatic pitch matching
• Automatic level matching
• Automatic beat matching
• Dynamic beat visualizer for easy drag’n'drop beat-matching
• Real scratch simulation
• Virtual scratch: Scratch your mp3 with your bare hand
• Automatic beat-aware LOOP function
• Synchronised sampler with 12 instant slots
• Master Tempo pitch algorithm
• Automatic first beat and last beat detection
• Automatic 4/4 phase detection
• OSC network synchronisation
• Infinite number of beatlocked desks (local multi-instance or network)
• Infinite number of cue points saved per songs
• Beat aware effect plugins (included: beatgrid, flippin, vocal remover, filter, flanger, backspin, brake, etc…)
• VST effects compatibility
• Video mix with TV output (mix songs and/or video clips !)
• Full karaoke support
• Proprietary of FreeFrame video effects
• Inifite number of video effect simultaneously
• DJ-adapted video transition plugins
• Song database engine with easy-to-use search feature
• CoverFlow or text-only song browsing
• Compatible with iTunes playlists
• ID3 compatibility
• Automatic filter folders
• Automatic Hot-Swap of external harddrives
• Ready-to-burn file recording to burn your own mixed CDs
• Broadcast on the Internet
• CD to MP3 encoder
• Optional 3D sound card, 2 sound cards or Y-splitter for real-time monitoring or external mixtable use
• ASIO soundcard compatibility
• Fully customisable (skin engine and shortcut macro enngine)
• External MIDI keyboard compatibility for shortcuts
• Compatibility with most external controllers (DMC2, DAC3, iCDX, TotalControl, BCD2000, DJConsole, etc…)
• Optional automatic mixing: Virtual DJ recognizes the style of the music (techno, hip hop, lounge) and adapt its mixes in consequence

Plus on the Virtual DJ site

You can find skins, plugins, sound effects and drivers:

Here you can find some free Virtual DJ skins

And check for some free Virtual DJ effects

Free Virtual DJ Software Download Here

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A couple of videos to give you an idea on the Virtual DJ player:

DJ Larry D showing us an live example on VJ’ing with the Virtual DJ and Numark NS7

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Another video example of Virtual DJ on a laptop with Pioneer CDJ-400s.

More Info on Virtual DJ Here

For me personally I prefer Mixmeister.

Other Top Best DJ Software:

Traktor Pro
Mixmeister Fusion
Serato
Ableton

Virtual DJ Software, Skins And Effects

DJ PlayList

Aspiring DJs should build a great library of music FIRST.

YOU MUST KNOW YOUR MUSIC

• Know the BPM of your songs

Beats Per Minute. Arranging your dance music this way creates consistency in tempo and provides better continuity for people who are dancing.

• Know the harmony notes of beginning and end of songs

You can find software for that too. Here is one new software which I haven’t checked out yet but I won’t need it anyway for myself. Mixed In Key. I use Mixmeister Fusion which has all those features. It’s a great DJ software.

More about harmonic mixing

• Trim your songs

Long fade outs or talking and skits at the end can be trimmed.

A good piece of free software for trimming unwanted bits from the beginning and end of songs is   Mp3Trim or  Mp3Directcut ( is my preferred one).

If you use Wav files then try Audacity but don’t convert to another format. Always keep your original files backed up.

• Normalize your songs

Normalizing your songs will bring the volume levels in line with each other, so that the volume stays fairly consistent.
An easy way to normalize a collection of MP3s is to use a free piece of software called  Mp3Gain . For Wav files you can use Audacity.

• Select and combine

Select tracks into the same BPM harmoniously if possible. If harmony can’t be done then just beat match it and that should be OK.

Keep building the playlist.

• Building A CD Mix?

Try this!

First track should be an instrumental (no vocals) and the duration shorter than 2 minutes 30 seconds.

Second track should have vocals and should not be longer than 4 minutes.

All  the rest of the tracks should be less than 5 minutes each.

• Take in Requests?

As a commercial DJ, you are EXPECTED to know just about everything and HAVE just about everything they will ask for.

Take your DJ career serious? Then GET serious!

Peace

DJ White Hawk

Amin

One Of The Best DJ Software Is Mixmeister Fusion

Most reviews you can find online give you nothing but a brief overview of the software.They hardly tell you anything about bugs or any faults.So always try it out yourself. Like when you need a pair of headphones, you go to the store to try it out to see.

• This is a professional  DJ software so take your time to choose. You can  check the demo version to try.

• Before using it on a gig be sure that you know the software well, and not just using on the default factory set.

• It depends on your style, each professional DJ software is unique, Mixmeister Fusion is my favorite as it fits my style.

Free your imagination. MixMeister Fusion is a new advanced DJ tool to let you go beyond beat mixing and unlock your musical creativity.

Improvisation with control. MixMeister Fusion lets you manipulate tempo, volume, and EQ in real time, on-the-fly. You can also add effects and experiment with looping features.  Fusion records all your actions (not just the resulting audio), so you can go back, listen to your mix, and make precise adjustments with studio-style editing capabilities. Whether you use it for live gigs or a  mix CD production, this ability to jam, listen and refine lets you achieve true perfection.

More Info on Mixmeister Fusion Here

Other Top Best DJ Software:

TRAKTOR Pro
Virtual DJ
Serato
Ableton

You can mix up to 8 decks (tracks) simultaneously.

More Info on Mixmeister Fusion Here

Other Fusion Highlights:

* Improved Keycode system for quicker and easier harmonic mixing.
* Native Snow leopard support. [for Studio and Fusion]
* Native Mac OSX version is universal binary for PowerPC or Intel processors
* Improved time stretching accurately matches beats with fast or slow tempos
* Enhanced timeline display provides clear division of measures
* Effect automation via MIDI controllers – External hardware can now manipulate effect parameters
* Support for stored EQ settings in transition templates for advanced users
* Fade and Cue Next feature fades and pauses your mix then starts at the next track – perfect for voice over announcements
* New master volume control for preview output – headphone and main out can be controlled independently
* Play a live set while you preview any moment in your upstream mix
* Manipulate your mix in real time with a wide range of MIDI hardware controllers
* See your music take shape with an advanced timeline view
* VST audio effects (included) to process part of a track or your entire mix
* Mix up to 8 songs simultaneously with perfect sync
* Play with on–the–fly looping and remixing functions
* Change the tempo of a song without changing key
* Burn a flawless copy of your set to CD

DJ Software – Mixmeister Fusion

Make Beats With Toontrack EZdrummer

An Incredible Drum Sampler For DJ Productions And Computer Musicians.

Toontrack EZdrummer The Beat Maker

Make beats With EZdrummer, It’s A Virtual Instrument

VST ‘plugs in’ into your host application. The “default” drum beats are great, just for starters to make beats.

There is no end to what you can do with this software. And if you are tired of using drum machines that sound, well machine like, then this is it !

This is a sampler of real drummers (almost). Ezdrummer has good quality drums and very realistic sounds.  But it eats up quite a bit of memory if you use more than one track, so be prepared for lots of ram, maybe about 250 megs for a track. So make beats!

There are a lot of expansion kits for a whole lot of different styles even Jazz!

Toontrack EZdrummer Multi Layer Drum Sampler At Amazon

Official Ezdrummer here at www.toontrack.com

Check out other VST plugins

Make Beats

Laptop DJ

The key to running a successful software based DJ system as laptop DJ, is to buy a dedicated  laptop for the task, and to only run the operating system and DJ Software on there, and never allow it to run other applications or even connect to the internet.

This way the installation runs and remains clean and largely error free, will rarely have a corrupt file, and won’t get infiltrated or bogged down with several other applications.

This advice is given by DJ’s  including me who have been using DJ software and PC’s for many years, and have found this method of laptop DJ’ing to be just as reliable as conventional DJ’ing from CD’s.

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Hard Drives For Laptop DJ’s

With large laptop internal hard drives, you can store thousands of 320-bit MP3s  though a lot of DJs use  CD-quality WAV or AIFF files instead.

Video files take up much more space ,  so an external hard drive is necessary.

Sending video signals also uses more bandwidth than audio, so while a USB 2.0 drive is good for audio, FireWire 400 or FireWire 800 are better connections for video.

For video drives,  pay attention to drive speed (7200 RPM is essential) and the chip set.

The 500 GB external drives have fallen to low prices now, and terabyte drives are coming down in price.

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Italian Laptop DJ Giuseppe Ottaviani playing live with two Apple Powerbooks running Ableton Live & Traktor, two  keyboards, two different mixers and an effects machine during Crasher Hyper Royale night at Gatecrasher One, Sheffield 2007, Picture by ©BrianOMahony.net .

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Laptop DJ’ing