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October 6th, 2012 News & Opinion

BPM 2012: Virtual DJ 8 Will Be Multi-Platform & Multi-Touch

by Phil Morse

Virtual DJ 8 has a cleaner, fresher look, but the bigger news is that it’s going to work on any platform your hardware is compatible with, including both Windows 8 and iOS touchscreen. (Click to enlarge.)

Maybe it’s because we’ve covered it all already, but whatever the reason, there’s scant little to report on the hardware side from the BPM Show this year. (Just look at our News & Opinion stream for the past few weeks; everything new we’ve covered is here at BPM.)

That’s not to say there’s nothing interesting going on – far from it. Just that we’re looking for trends, not big surprise announcements. One of those trends is a move away from the laptop, and is perfectly illustrated by the news that Virtual DJ 8 will be the first multi-platform, multi-touch DJ app. That means that from the off, it will run on Windows, Mac and iOS (Android is out in the cold when it comes to DJing, for many reasons).

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August 4th, 2012 Training

Controller Clinic #14: Improving The Effects On Virtual DJ LE & Mixtrack

by Phil Morse

The effects controls on the Mixtrack Pro: What you actually get depends on the software you use it with, and with Virtual DJ LE, your options are quite limited.

Following our recent tutorial video on when to use DJ effects, Digital DJ Tips reader John Spiegel writes: “I use a Numark Mixtrack with Virtual DJ LE. In the effects section there is no filter, either hi or low pass. I was wondering if there’s a way to either get around that or fix that.

“Also, on the echo section, I can’t quite figure out how to control the timing of the echo. When I turn it on it just goes crazy. I realize this is sort of vague, but any chance you could help me out?”

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April 5th, 2012 News & Opinion

Video: Virtual DJ 8 Alpha Talkthrough

by Phil Morse

Coloured waveforms are an obvious development, but under the skin there are many much more profound changes to the software.

We’ve already looked at the new features of Virtual DJ 8, but we managed to grab Heiko from Virtual DJ at Musikmesse 2012 (early one morning before it was too noisy) to give us a really in-depth video talkthrough.

Virtual DJ certainly does things differently; whereas other companies might keep things out of the public eye until they’re totally ready, Virtual DJ’s team is happy to share its thinking and thought processes with us. As such this video is not for the casual viewer; it goes into a lot of detail at nearly half an hour long.

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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.

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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.”

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