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There’s a record button here too, and a rather limited tutorial that nonetheless gens you up on the basics. This gives you access to gain controls for each deck (although there doesn’t seem to be an autogain for tracks, which is a shame), as well as a master output level.Ī big “quantise” button in here basically locks the beats when you’re messing with loops etc and is well worth turning on for casual DJing – it makes it sound frankly better on a tiny device when you’re not trying to perfectly time everything all the time. You can’t have, say, loops/cues on one deck and FX selected on another, though, and I feel this would be possible with a little bit of UX tweaking rather easily – definitely on the wish list for v2. There’s a little cog button for settings. This works similar to Traktor DJ on an iOS device, with the ability to lock the chosen effect in place if you wish. Hitting “FX” brings up two X/Y pads with 15 FX per side.

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(However, it is possible to do this on the crossfader – kind of, anyway more later.) The software cleverly appears to make use of the available screen size here, the EQ & volume controls are retained alongside the FX, but on my smaller 5in device, in this mode, the volume controls disappear leaving full-screen X-Y FX pads. They’re not multitouch though, and by that I don’t mean that you can’t touch more than one control at once (you can), but that you can’t put a finger at one end of the fader and cut it in/out with another by touching the other end of the fader – something some iOS apps do really well and that can make for some great scratch-type cutting. The next button takes control of volume and EQ (on smaller devices, on large devices they’re on every screen), with big sliders for volume, bass, mid and treble for each of the two decks. There’s a slip mode in here too, which is cool.

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The first of these buttons is the little loop icon, that brings up a half/double loop length set-up, plus eight cue buttons. Holding the jog and doing a scratch movements initiates a pretty convincing scratch sound.īut as I say, it’s been kept simple to access other functions, you need to press buttons to bring up further screens. You can manually beatmatch, too holding the middle of a jog and moving up engages BPM change (moving clockwise or anticlockwise then increases/decreases the BPM) while swiping left/right is like nudging. The Sync buttons work well with most dance music I tried it on, as the app pre-analyses and attempts to beatgrid the music first (would be good to be able to adjust the beatgrid, though). MixVibes has wisely realised that people are going to want simplicity here there are big cue, play and sync buttons a crossfader and not much else on the main screen. This is one of many nice touches in the app. On a Nexus 5 smartphone, the orange and blue decks move reasonably smoothly and the waveforms scroll OK, although for some reason overall the animation was sometimes jerky and at other times close to perfect. The software has parallel waveforms that you can switch to become two whole-track waveforms, and there’s a circular beat/bar counter, similar to other MixVibes Cross software. The app looks simple but nonetheless is quite slick. You can sort by artist, album (shown), song, playlist or genre, and there’s even a section for your own recordings, but it would be nice to have a genre column in the song list, which is where most DJs will work from, I suspect. (It won’t recognise Google Play music, even if stored locally.)

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First, you’ve got to get music into it, and that means putting music in your Android device’s Music folder, via Windows Explorer, or the Android File Transfer app for Mac.

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