Algoriddim’s djay app for iOS has long been among the most popular music mixing apps on the App Store – and has proven its merit both with impressive sales, overwhelmingly positive reviews, and even an Apple Design Award in 2011. Today, djay just got even better with the release of djay 2 – an all new version of the app with loads of new features, a great new interface, enhanced support for audio and DJ hardware, and more.
While the full list of new features is quite impressive (and a bit overwhelming), the most notable new features include real-time visual feedback based on the audio you’re working with, the ability to map and place custom loops (including loops created from a currently playing track in real time), a built-in 12-pad sampler, complete with a recorder, vastly improved syncing between multiple audio tracks, and much, much, much more.
It’s an impressive release – I was given a 30 minute demo, and was frankly stunned by the huge number of changes, new features, and improvements introduced with djay 2.0. Even better, you don’t have to know ANYTHING about DJing, working with sound bytes, or professional audio to have fun mixing your own grooves. It’s brilliantly simple, yet advanced enough to meet the needs of even the most demanding jockey.
If you loved the original djay, or even if you haven’t tried it yet, you’re going to love djay 2 even more. The app is available now at sale pricing for the launch at a cost of $0.99 for the iPhone version, and $4.99 for djay for iPad. Owners of the original djay will have to pay to upgrade to djay 2 – but considering the remarkable amount of work that went into the update, I’m inclined to think it’s well worth the money.
The app is available now for immediate download from the App Store.
- djay for iPhone ($0.99, direct link)
- djay for iPad ($4.99, direct link)
The full list of changes, from Algoriddim’s press release, can be found below:
NEW FEATURES:
All-new user interface:
- Turntable view: Hyper-realistic “two turntables and a mixer” DJ setup for intuitive mixing and scratching
- HD Waveforms view: New layer featuring scrolling parallel waveforms with advanced performance capabilities
- Single deck view in portrait orientation: Single deck view allows focus on an individual deck and provides larger controls
- Sampler view: Allows the user to add sounds to their live performance, comes with high-quality pre-bundled content
All-new music library:
- Queue: Perfect for upcoming songs and requests
- History: Offers a catalog of previously played songs with auto-saved playlists
- Light/dark mode: Adjust to a bright day-light setting or a dark-club lighting
- Expandable full-screen view: Dynamically switch from popover to full-screen view
- Advanced sorting: Easily browse music by BPM, Title, Artist, Time
- Instant preview: Quickly preview a track in the library before loading it to the deck
- Analyze library: Pre-analyze entire iTunes music library (BPM, Beat Grids, Gain, Color, etc)
Built-in Sampler:
- Pre-bundled content: Comes with built-in sample packs (Essentials, Sound FX, and Dubstep Pack)
- Color-coded drum pads: Assign a color to each pad for easy identification of samples
- Live sampling: Create custom samples recorded live from the two decks
- Custom sample banks: Reassign samples to buttons and save as custom presets
HD Waveforms:
- Parallel Scrolling Waveforms View: Touch and interact with two tracks side-by-side
- Beat Grids: Visualizes the beats and bars of a song
- Spectral Timeline: In overview mode this shows the structure of the song (e.g. verse, chorus). In detail mode it allows the user to distinguish bass drums, snare drums, hi-hats, etc. by color
- Slice Mode: Slices waveform into four-beat bars and allows the user to trigger each beat individually for stunning live remixing
Enhanced Performance Modes:
- Slip Mode: Scratch without interrupting the flow as the music snaps back in time seamlessly
- Loop-FX: Beat-matched looping with simultaneous XY-style filtering
- Enhanced Audio Analysis:
- Full color waveforms: Identifies similar musical patterns within a song and associates them with color
- Beat grids: Editable and shared via iCloud across Mac, iPad, and iPhone
- Real Vinyl: Virtual grooves are individually mapped and rendered for every track on djay’s virtual records. It allows to quickly identify breaks within a song, as if the vinyl was fresh off the press
- Perfect Sync: Keeps songs perfectly in sync by time-stretching their beat-grids in real-time
Enhanced Support for DJ Hardware Controllers and Multi-Channel Audio Interfaces:
- Improved MIDI integration: Enhanced djay’s officially supported hardware controllers with new pro-level features: Vestax Spin 2, Numark iDJ Pro, Numark Mixdeck Quad, Numark iDJ Live, Numark iDJ Live II, iDJ 2 Go, Pioneer DDJ-WeGo, and Pioneer DDJ-Ergo
- All-new portrait interface: Optimized for Numark iDJ Pro
