I am personally loathe to let Apple near my local music files, as it famously replaces your files with its own versions and messes with your artwork, and as djay Pro AI cannot work with the Apple Music streaming service, it’s just needlessly odd and confusing. djay Pro AI wants you to use iTunes/Music to do this, but those apps are so entwined with Apple’s own Apple Music streaming service that it all gets confusing quickly. When it comes to your own music files, things aren’t so good. You can use streaming service offline lockers for caching files, too, where available. This works with both streaming and local music. It’s not perfect, though (I couldn’t get beatgrid changes to sync, but maybe I was doing something wrong). Read this next: The Best Music Streaming Services For DJsĭjay Pro AI v4 syncs metadata across iCloud, too, so as long as you have iCloud enabled on your devices, your cues, loops and so on all come across. This is much better than on some DJ software, and works perfectly. All this work then appears both in the streaming service itself and, by extension, in other instances of the app you have running on other devices. For streaming music, it’s easy: You can interact with your streaming services from within the app – making, deleting and editing playlists. On an app designed to work cross-platform, the way music works with it is going to be important. After all, as you can now plug your phone in and DJ using a full pro club set-up from it, the designers had to think carefully about what would and wouldn’t be displayed to you in such circumstances, and all the others you may conjure up. The thinking is that you don’t need to see a set of mixing controls on the screen if you’ve got hardware controls in front of you, for instance.Īs screen real estate is always at a premium on complex interfaces such as these, it’s a smart and welcome addition. This is a recent addition, and is very welcome, taking a leaf out of Serato’s book. The software is designed to adjust what you see on the screen depending upon what DJ gear you plug in. There are many “views” available, depending on the platform and the hardware you have plugged in – this is a simple “classic” deck view on iPad. But there’s also a one-deck view (for when you’re using it essentially as a digital turntable to add to an existing DJ system), an automix view, a four-deck view, and views for both “looper” mode (a bit like Ableton’s Session view) and a video mode for VDJs. The main ones are a “classic” view with turntables on screen, and a “pro” view which looks like most DJ software. The software has various views available to you. Plus, the software also works with DVS (digital vinyl systems), not only on Mac, but also on iPad and iPhone! There is minimal set-up involved here as it auto detects and calibrates, and works with most DVS vinyl – although Algoriddim’s own has a trick up its sleeve (more on that later). Configuration is generally pretty simple. If you have a USB-C iPad or Apple laptop, you just plug in with a USB-C cable, or if you use an iPhone or older iPad, you’ll connect using Apple’s Camera Connection Kit, which also allows you to power the iPhone/iPad via its second socket. There are a few “official” set-ups (mainly made by German company Reloop), such as the Buddy, Mixon 4 and Mixon 8 Pro controllers, but it works with many big-brand controllers, mixers and media players, including Pioneer DJ’s club-standard DJM-900NXS2 mixer and CDJ-3000 media players. You can use the software as-is, without needing additional hardware, but in reality you will want to use it with DJ hardware. (It is also available on Windows and Android, but those versions are not included in this update, and are not part of this review.) One subscription covers you for all three device types. As a Mac, iPhone or iPad user, you’ll download and install djay Pro AI v4 from your App Store.
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