You can purchase more in the Algoriddim store which were developed in conjunction with plugin developer Sugar Bytes. Effectsĭjay Pro 2 ships with five audio effects: Echo, Flanger, Phaser, Bit Crusher and Gate. For more serious jocks, though, you’ll want more control, and djay Pro 2 has that: clicking on the Tools button at the top of the screen will show two mini-windows under each deck, which can display either the FX touch pad, loop controls, or hot cues. You get a pitch fader, key lock as well as basic transport and looping controls.įor many casual DJs, this will be more than enough to play a DJ set. You can choose to see them as waveforms stacked or running alongside each other.Įach deck has a track name, artist name, time left, musical key, and waveform display at the top. When using only two decks, they can be displayed in either Vinyl or Decks mode: Vinyl shows your decks as turntables, while Decks shows them as waveforms. The thought of dropping tunes from my playlists thrilled me, but I’ve got work to do, so I started exploring.Īs mentioned, the decks in djay Pro 2 are customisable: You can have either two or four decks, and you can opt to see waveforms (horizontal or vertical) or turntable graphics.

At first blush, Spotify in djay Pro 2’s browser seemed fine – my playlists and listening history loaded properly, and dragging one of the tracks into djay Pro 2’s decks was painless and rather quick. The only other thing that was left for me to do was to log into was my Spotify Premium account, which was also quick.

I was impressed at how quick and painless getting it set up in my laptop was. This is the basic view, and you can change it according to your needs, as we’ll see later on. The djay Pro 2 interface will be familiar if you’ve been spinning with laptop DJ software in the past: the top half of the screen shows your virtual decks and a mixer, and the bottom has your music library. Once downloaded, it’s just a matter of installing it on your computer. A 15-day free trial is also available if you just want to try it out. Djay Pro 2 is a Mac-only app (djay Pro was just released in Windows earlier this year), and it can be downloaded from the App Store or on the Algoriddim website.

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