DJCU2, a major update to the much-loved Mac-only DJ library conversion utility DJCU, is now in public beta. One big new trick is that it can carry Algoriddim Djay Pro’s fluid beatgrids into other DJ apps as part of converting your library across.
DJCU and now DJCU2 are designed to move an entire library from one DJ app to another, including your cues, loops, playlists and beatgrids, so you don’t rebuild it by hand. It works with Rekordbox, Traktor, VirtualDJ, Serato and Engine DJ.
Djay Pro is the only app with fluid beatgrids, and they’re the best around. Basically, it can get the beatgrids right on pretty much all music, first time. But until now there was no easy way to use them anywhere else. With DJCU2, though, you could analyse your library in djay Pro, run the conversion, and the variable tempo changes would come across intact instead of being flattened to a single fixed BPM.
The results are as accurate as each app allows. The conversion DJCU works with is a close approximation rather than an exact copy, and Serato is the most limited result, since it can only change tempo on the first beat of a bar and so can’t follow a track as smoothly as the others. Even so, it looks like this will be a big improvement on what was possible before.
DJCU2 also rolls DJCU, the Denon Conversion Utility (DeCU) and several of developer Mixmaster G’s other tools into a single app.
Pricing and availability
The beta is open to anyone with a DJCU or DeCU licence. To join, send Mixmaster G the PayPal address you bought with. Pricing isn’t final, but he’s aiming for around €44.50 as a one-time purchase, with a roughly €20 upgrade for existing owners and a further discount for anyone who bought DJCU on or after 1 January 2025. The full release is due around mid-September 2027, with updates posted here.
I’m flagging the beta this early because a lot of DJs rate Mixmaster G and his tools, and I’m one of them. He’s worth supporting.
