atomix | Digital DJ Tips

October 3rd, 2012 News & Opinion

Virtual DJ 7.1 Released

by Phil Morse

Virtual DJ 7.1: Just one new feature and a few bugfixes, as we wait for Virtual DJ 8 to hit primetime.

With Virtual DJ users still patiently awaiting Virtual DJ 8, today Atomix released Virtual DJ 7.1. It’s a more incremental upgrade, that contains only one headline new feature.

It is now possible to have “cloud playlists” with a new function called CloudList (which only work with the online NetSearch feature). So you could, for instance, log on to your friend’s Virtual DJ at his house and access all your personal playlists, or create and share playlists with other DJs online.

9 Comments »

March 22nd, 2012 News & Opinion

World Exclusive: Virtual DJ 8 Revealed

by Phil Morse

Virtual DJ 8's new timeline feature is the biggest of a whole host of new additions in this rewritten version of the program.

Digital DJ Tips has seen a sneak preview of Virtual DJ 8, which we can confirm has had an extensive rewrite and comes with a massive list of new features including audio/video timeline DJing, vastly improved sample decks, far easier mapping, auto audio configuration, and completely new effects.

As well as the headline features in the alpha version we saw, there are improvements to windows and window resizing including for video, editable EQ bands, multi-field search, and a host of advanced configuration options that were previously only available by editing your registry – and it’s only “60% finished” with many more features yet to make it into the software.

70 Comments »

November 4th, 2011 News & Opinion

Virtual DJ 8 Coming: Extra Help Drafted In

by Phil Morse

Virtual DJ Pro 7 with 4 decks running concurrently. The software was a big success for its makers, Atomix.

Virtual DJ 8 is just around the corner, and promises to be the biggest leap forward for the popular DJ software platform so far, according to its makers Atomix.

Atomix has just announced that it has bought another DJ software company, Adionsoft – providers of DJ software distributed under the brands DJDecks, PCDJ Dex, and PCDJ Red Mobile – and now has both sets of engineers working on “rebuilding Virtual DJ from the ground up.”

81 Comments »

August 8th, 2010 DJ Culture

Free Digital DJ Magazine “Pitched” from Virtual DJ

by Phil Morse

The cover of the latest edition of Virtual DJ's Pitched magazine for digital DJs.

I just stumbled across the latest edition of an online mag called Pitched, which is a free download from the Virtual DJ folks. It’s been out for a while but it’s still a good little read if you haven’t seen it yet.

The Virtual DJ/Atomix team speak to Denon about their DJ hardware, offer a tutorial on basic beatmixing, and give advice on how to choose a pair of DJ headphones (they must have been reading DDJT…). The magazine also features news, a competition and interviews with model-turned-DJ KayJay (no, I’ve not heard of her either), and Coldcut’s DJ/VJ Raj Pannu.

No Comments »