Software Decks/Mixing

[Mr Moo]

Can any one recommend a cheap or free / shareware software decks?

I will need?

• 2 sound cards (need to install the other one, how can i get them to both work together? can i nominate one (better of the 2) for being the primary?
• When i'm Q'ing a song, will i need headphones? where do they plug in, which sound card i mean?
• Am i right in assuming i can use my current mp3s?

Can anyone help @ all plzzzz? 

[Blink]

I know a few people who say TractorDJ by Steinberg is good (Steinberg are a good name, they do the high-end sequencing software, Cubase).

I reckon that if you installed 2 soundcards (after checking they would work together), you would define one sound card as your "cue output", and one as your "mix output", thus you would only need to have your headphones put into one soundcard. (But that is just a guess, so I would check that first)

[Simon_C1562626685]

Traktor is a feckin awesome mixing app, but it's actually from Native INstruments not Steniberg, but an equally quality comapny. As for setting up the sound cards i'm not entirely sure as i've never had to do this myself, but i think the Traktor instruction thing may have some kind of guide as to how to do this, i'll check it out later on tho to make sure

[Mr Moo]

Any ideas where i can d/l this plz?

[Mr Moo]

 

Keep ur head up m8!

 

You've got a good attitude! Sum1 in your position could just say [censored] it.... But ur not!

[Chewi1562627764]

ive come across software in the past for mixing MP3's live, but it was shite, utter crud...completely unusable in fact! lol

 

not used traktor or whatever - but im guessing its not live, or is it?!

 

anyway - proggies that are good for making "digitally mixed" CDs, IE, click, drag "Oooooo i'm a DJ!!!" lol are MixMeister (simple to use, pretty affective automatic beatmatcher, good for beginners)

 

or Acid Pro - similar to mixmeister but u get far more control over the beatmatching when u import songs....but you will have to read the help files with that proggy! i did anyway

[Mr Moo]

Ok, ive got Traktor, wouldnt mind tryin a few others tho!

 

That auto beat matcher sounds good!

[Chewi1562627764]

dabble and test the water is my advice....you wouldnt marry the first girl u snogged now would you?

 

anyway - mixmeisters autobeatmatcher sounds good in theory, in practice its no way near accurate enough, good enuf to piss around with tho

[Mr Moo]

Chewi said:

anyway - mixmeisters autobeatmatcher sounds good in theory, in practice its no way near accurate enough, good enuf to piss around with tho

 

I know what u mean hehe!

[Simon_C1562626685]

chewi matey, with traktor u are mixing live, u have to do pitch adjustments, speeding up and slowing down a record to bring it back in time, u can even scratch with it altho it's not overly easy to do. Also as another plus point for it, if u have 2 soundcards u can hook them into your DJM 600s(or whatever mixer you happen to have) and u can do ur EQing and crossfader actions from there, so all in all it's a pretty damn good piece of software.

 

Can u tell i like it

[James]

As others have already said Traktor by Native Instruments is the dogs & simply amazing

• https://www.native-instruments.com/en/catalog/software/dj-software/
  • Multiple products ranging from Free to Pro

NI also have amazing hardware controllers, highly recommended !

• https://www.native-instruments.com/en/catalog/hardware/traktor/

Others I have used

• PCDJ Red
  • https://pcdj.com/
• BPM Studio Pro
  • https://alcatech.de/en/pages/bpm-studio

[Mr Moo]

Thanx a lot guys!

 

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