![]() Interestingly, the 8 beat match is actually 32 counts, the 16 beat match is 64 counts and so on. There's a bunch of different transitions to choose from, ranging from simple cuts, crossfades, 8, 16, 32 or 64 beat matches, a bass cutter that will cut the bass on the first track and a cool one called ping pong that'll apply a gater-like effect for 8 counts. Very simple and I couldn't hear the change. Select a 130 BPM track and a 127 BPM one and tempo will automatically slow down during the transition until it reaches 127. There's no need to adjust tempo - iDJ does it for you in a very elegant manner. The BPM detection is indeed remarkable and does a great job of beat matching. I also experienced a few sporadic sound issues with music that kept playing even though the player was stopped and warped sound. It crashed multiple times the day after when I randomly tapped the mix library button. The second time I made sure to quit the app a few times to save my progress. That was quickly done since I remembered all my transitions and had become familiar with the software, but it's worrying to see that the app doesn't autosave continuously like iMovie for example. I put together a mix tape with 9 tracks in an hour right after purchase, but unfortunately the app crashed after the 5th track and I had to do it all over again. It only gives room for two stacked tracks - the other two will overlap the first ones and make things very hard, nay impossible, to manage. You can have up to four songs playing at the same time but I don't see much use for this feature given how busy the already petite timeline will get. Re-ordering songs and adding new ones in the middle of a mix is a no-brainer and iDJ won't ever mess up the upcoming transitions in your set should you change a track somewhere in the mix. ![]() Playback controls control, well, playback, and the skip buttons are very useful for jumping between transitions to make sure every mix sound right. Of course, you can always make adjustments later or assign your own transitions. That's the idea anyway, but since the UI is so slow, the song rarely drops where you hit the button which obviously renders the feature quite useless. Voila, iDJ will beat match and cut out the unneeded parts of the songs. Let the track play and wait for the exact moment you want to bring in the next track and hit Mix Now. There's also a Mix Now button that will make a transition on-the-fly. Do it once more and iDJ will automatically add an 8 beat match transition between the two. To begin mixing, tap on the song you want and tap the plus button to add it to the playlist. The learning curve is almost non existent. iDJ instead lets you mix music in a digital audio workstation environment. This is in contrast to the newly release djay app from Algoriddim, which is a traditional two deck and mixer setup. I don't know exactly why iDJ is distributed by Numark - it's more or less a light version of the excellent desktop DJ DAW MixMeister Fusion, with the same MixMeister technology underpinnings. It's worth mentioning that you need iOS 4.2 to be able to use your iPod library - older versions will need tracks to be added manually through iTunes' documents tab. It seems iDJ converts tracks and stores them somewhere else so it's a good idea to only have select songs in the library if storage is scarce. It's been spot on all the time, even with tracks that I've had to tap out manually in Traktor Pro! A minor issue is the ability to mass delete tracks, or rather the lack of. During import, tracks are analyzed for tempo and key and the BPM detection has yet to fail me with a single song. The software even warns you about this, though iDJ resumes the process from where it was left off should you ever quit the application. I fired up my favorite house playlist with 235 songs and that was probably a bad idea. It is very straightforward to load up tracks from the iPod library (though it takes time) and get started. That said, the design is intuitive and very iPad-esque and the concept great so that was enough for me to spend a few hours (well, days) with the app despite the lukewarm welcoming. The UI is stuttery and scrolling is sometimes worse than on an Android phone. Right off the bat on a freshly rebooted iPad with iOS 4.2 GM and no other apps running, iDJ is really slow. I started to write my first impressions and it turned out to a full review. It seemed like fun and there haven't been anything like it in the App Store before. I bought the app when I read the DJ TechTools article.
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