![]() It’s a shame that you can’t right now though as a trial version doesn’t exist yet. The temptation is to throw myself into Cross DJ 4 and play for a few days. But generally, the effects (I simply cannot bring myself to say FX ever – apart from this one time) make me happy. Unfortunately the presets don’t seem to save right now. And via the FxTweaker you get a truly granular experience, and importantly appear to be able to save presets, and hopefully share them too. I have been banging on forever about offering the user the ability to edit effects and save their own presets, ideally for uploading to hardware effects units, but definitely for saving inside software. The whole library experience does however give me the warm fuzzies.įxTweaker: This is where things get very interesting for me. I also like the ability to just analyse a track for things like BPM or beat grid if you weren’t happy first time around. It’s also very fast at delivering basic analysis when dropping a track into a deck, but I can’t attest to accuracy. The analysis engine is strong here, and has options such as auto assigning hot cues, which at this beta stage appears to be entirely random bar putting the hot cue on a beat marker and maybe a loud vocal or horn stab. ![]() I haven’t tested it though, because this is a first impressions piece and not a review. You can apparently import from the major apps rightist Cross DJ 4, and seemingly use it as a way to spit out a rekordbox USB drive. Indeed it’s the foundation for rekordbox, and those links are still strong here. LIBRARY: Cross DJ’s strong point has always been the library. the DJWORX typeface extremists) don’t much care for the use of Futura as the interface font though - it’s especially off-putting when displaying BPM to 2 decimal point in the library view. And don’t worry - while the mono colour waveforms are aesthetically pleasing in a 4 deck layout, they can be changed to more conventional multi-colour ones, and those waveforms can be stacked as well as side by side too. I’m also stuck by the use of flat colour to indicate decks too. INTERFACE: The first thing you notice when firing up is the ditching of skeuomorphic shaded controls and adopting a flatter and more modern interface style. And I’ve got a few first impressions for you. So I’ve got the beta, and have spent a very short time poking around the interface. The company also contributed to Pioneer’s rekordbox, the standard music management software used in clubs all over the world. Mixvibes has been developing music, DJ and video apps for Mac/PC, iOS and Android for over 15 years.
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