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(MUNICH, Germany) – December 12, 2017 – Algoriddim, creators of the world’s best selling DJ app with over 30 million downloads, today released djay Pro 2 for Mac. The multiple award-winning DJ software has been taken to the next level with a modernized user interface, countless new features, and advanced music analysis tools that make it even easier for DJs to focus on their performance. djay Pro 2 allows users to directly access their Spotify account to find, play, and mix millions of songs in pristine sound quality with up to 320 kbps. Its extensive integration with Spotify’s Browse section provides curated playlists for DJs to instantly discover new music by mood, genre, and popularity.
“Algoriddim has redefined DJ software with djay Pro for Mac and iOS,” said Karim Morsy, CEO of Algoriddim. “This next generation of djay Pro adds a host of new features for live performance, playlist management, and music analysis. And we’re incredibly excited to introduce Automix AI, a revolutionary technology that will assist DJs and change the way people listen to music.”
Automix AI™
Using machine learning and training sets from human DJs, Automix AI intelligently identifies rhythmic patterns and the best intro and outro sections of songs. Automix AI calculates optimal fade durations and automatically applies parameter changes to EQs and filters for a seamless transition. Beats and tempos are matched using Morph which ensures that a song’s BPM is maintained during a transition. This innovative song mixing technology allows for seamless cross-genre mixes with varying tempo.
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Using Match, an innovative song recommendation engine powered by Spotify, users get a continuous queue based on danceability, BPM, key, and music style. Automix AI allows users to fully lean back and enjoy the mix, yet users still have full manual control over Automix AI settings on-the-fly, as well as the ability to change the source music at any time. Using the transition button, users can trigger a seamless mix to the next song at any time.
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Advanced Media Library: Spotify, iTunes, Videos, Photos, File System
Successful DJing is dependent upon having a well organised media library. New in djay Pro 2 is an advanced library management system that is built around a sophisticated integration with Spotify, iTunes, Video, Photos, and the file system. djay Pro 2 now also offers its own playlists that make music management easier than ever. These appear in their own tab in the library manager, and allow users to create their own custom and smart playlists. Via the split view, users can even manage their songs from iTunes and Spotify side by side. To help organize users playlists and quickly locate songs, djay Pro 2 includes a powerful Smart Filter. With 12 different criteria, users can create rules that display exactly what they need, either to create permanent playlists, or to temporarily find a specific song.
PhotoBeat™
People love music as much as they love their photos. Therefore, djay Pro 2 introduces PhotoBeat and unifies music with photos in a first-of-its-kind way. Users can simply drag an album or a selection of photos onto the visual decks and djay Pro 2 instantly creates a perfectly beat-matched slideshow in perfect harmony with the music. Photos are cycled on beat and the rate can be adjusted on-the-fly in a range of a ¼ beat all the way up to 4 beats per photo. Users can also apply effects to their photos in just the same way as video, as well project the visual output via an external monitor through HDMI or AirPlay.
Accessibility
Every feature of djay Pro 2 has been carefully adapted for Accessibility, so vision impaired users can seamlessly dive into the experience. With VoiceOver enabled, users hear a description of everything happening on their screen through their headphones independent of the mix that is playing through the main speakers. This fundamentally transforms the workflow for vision impaired users and opens to them the door to live creativity on their Mac like never before.
Keyboard Shortcuts Editor
djay Pro 2 includes a full keyboard editor which allows users to assign any feature in djay Pro 2 to a custom keyboard shortcut. This is especially useful if users work with the Touch Bar or a hardware controller and want to add more instant features to their setup via the keyboard.
Hardware Integration
djay Pro 2 integrates seamlessly with existing professional DJ hardware and is officially certified by Pioneer DJ for plug and play integration with their CDJ line up, the worldwide standard for performing DJs. In addition, over 60 MIDI controllers are supported out of the box and can be re-mapped via djay Pro 2’s extensive MIDI learn system.
Advanced Features
- Cue Points and Loop saving: save and name up to 8 cue points and loops per song
- Cue Loops: assign loop triggers to cue points
- Split library: view iTunes, Spotify, Finder, and custom playlists side by side
- Single Deck mode: preparation view with a bigger library, ideal for preparing sets
- Smart Filters: instantly filter your playlists by BPM, key, date, genre and other metadata
- New audio engine: high-res waveforms, post-fader FX, high-quality filters, extensible master output effects via Audio Unit plug-ins
Official Video
https://youtu.be/KWE-w4Z7ZJg
https://youtu.be/KWE-w4Z7ZJg
Website
http://www.algoriddim.com/djay-pro-mac
http://www.algoriddim.com/djay-pro-mac
Free Trial
https://www.algoriddim.com/djay-pro-mac/download
https://www.algoriddim.com/djay-pro-mac/download
Mac App Store Link
http://www.algoriddim.com/store/djay-pro-mac
http://www.algoriddim.com/store/djay-pro-mac
Pricing
djay Pro 2 for Mac is available now for a limited-time introductory price of $39.99 (US) from the Mac App Store. The standard price will be $49.99 after the sale ends.
djay Pro 2 for Mac is available now for a limited-time introductory price of $39.99 (US) from the Mac App Store. The standard price will be $49.99 after the sale ends.
Requirements
djay Pro 2 for Mac is compatible with any Mac running macOS 10.11 or later.
djay Pro 2 for Mac is compatible with any Mac running macOS 10.11 or later.
djay + Spotify
A Spotify Premium subscription is required to access the Spotify music catalog. A 30 day free trial of Spotify Premium is available to djay users: http://www.spotify.com/djay
To learn more about using djay with Spotify visit http://www.algoriddim.com/spotify .
A Spotify Premium subscription is required to access the Spotify music catalog. A 30 day free trial of Spotify Premium is available to djay users: http://www.spotify.com/djay
To learn more about using djay with Spotify visit http://www.algoriddim.com/spotify .
About djay
djay, downloaded by over 20 million users on the App Store, is the world’s best selling DJ app and winner of two Apple Design Awards. Available for desktop and mobile devices, it is used by millions of music enthusiasts and professional DJs and VJs around the globe. Seamlessly integrated with iTunes and Spotify, djay gives users access to mix millions of songs instantly. djay also provides a rich hardware ecosystem from industry-leading partners enabling users to connect professional DJ gear to the app.
About Algoriddim
Algoriddim, founded in 2006, creates world-class music and video applications for desktop and mobile devices. Our mission is to eliminate the boundaries between consumer and professional-level software to create a world where every person can be an artist and bring their digital media to life.
Further information:
For more information, images, or to contact the team, please head over to our press page at www.algoriddim.com/press.
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CD. Laptop. DVS. Controller. Touch screen. Sync button. These are all new technologies that over the last 20 years have permeated the DJ scene. And it’s fair to say that each of these has been met with various degrees of resistance, from ambivalence to outright persistent hatred — but importantly ending with wide-scale acceptance. Indeed, the merest mention of the aforementioned sync button still incites FULL CAPS rants from some quarters.
But there’s a new threat to DJ sensibilities looming. It’s one that been around a good while now, but it slowly gaining traction with major players. VirtualDJ and algoriddim’s djay suite have included automixing features of one sort or another for years now. And the recent rekordbox v5.1 public beta (thanks for the heads up Chris) has included the following in the release notes:
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“Auto Mix feature which can mix intro and outro smoothly using analyzed phrase data.”
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But this week’s djay Pro 2 release moves things to an all new level of automation. Instead of a rudimentary hit and hope beat matching technique, djay Pro 2 introduces Automix AI, and with that will come a new wave of hate and irrational fears. I can see the reference to “AI” on a DJ site having some suffering from a fit of the vapours.
In its most basic form, it’s a simple matter of auto-fading between beat gridded tracks for a specific amount of time. It’s literally the rawest form of mixing, and is nothing more than rudimentary beat matching. You throw source files into a queue, and the software does the rest. It’s one step up from a jukebox.
Beyond this, we’re getting into the finer points of actual mixing as opposed to beat matching. If the beat gridding is solid, and the key analysis is accurate, then basic track matching technology can be employed to create a more competent and reliable set.
And now we’re into Automix AI, and all the hackle-raising bitterness and fear that the mention of artificial intelligence brings with it. Don’t worry – you’re not alone in having suspicions. We’ve all watched enough Terminator and Matrix films to see where all this might lead.
But before we equate the DJ industry with Skynet, It’s important to understand that what’s going on here is not artificial intelligence, but is something called machine learning. They’re similar and often interchanged for dramatic effect, but they are quite different. AI implies a self-aware independent state where decisions are made without human intervention. Machine learning however is more along the lines of providing data and a framework of logic and algorithms from which the computer can make a more educated decision.
So the source data will determine the success of the outcome. If it’s just BPM and beat gridding, then the result is likely to be similar to non-machine learning methods. But if you throw additional parameters in, ones that give the computer more to go on, then a more pleasing result is likely to be achieved. And in the case of djay Pro 2 and rekordbox 5.1 beta, they both analyse the tracks to determine intros and outros, thus making intelligent decisions about mixing, and in the case of djay Pro 2 it makes decision on the type of blend as well as the beat matching technique. Oh no — it’s the end of DJing.
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Let’s be quite clear — even when your tracks are analysed and gridded to perfection, you’re still at the mercy of software, algorithms, and other non-human factors. Spelling this out for those foaming at the mouth — your jobs are safe, and DJing is not dead. Driverless cars might be a hot topic right now, but Johnny Cab equivalent of a booth isn’t happening in the near future. And I’m confident in predicting that if someone did try it, an DJ would be back in there pretty quickly.
Look at this another way — the first jukeboxes were seen in the 1940s (no I wasn’t around then). Yet it didn’t stop DJs from pulling themselves from the primordial slime and evolving enough to make us swing our pants on a regular basis. So we DJs came about despite the machines, and they’re not about to usurp us any time soon either. Indeed, we DJs evolved from the machines, and have survived them too. The human spirit has and is always likely to prevail.
I do however have no doubt that in time, machine learning will be able to deliver a technically perfect mix. Having worked in workflow automation in the past, I can see how relatively simple this could be. A good deal of mixing music is numbers i.e. things that can be programmed and manipulated with a simple set of rules. Beat grids deliver the 1234-2234, BPMs can be selected directly or from a range, and equally keys have matching or closely matching values. And with clever use of descriptive tags, further logic can be put in place to select suitable tracks. And all of this is addressable via code. To be honest, I’m amazed that someone hasn’t actually nailed this already.
But no amount of clever C++ slinging can simulate or replace one crucial element…
While some focus on the technology and what it does, they fail to miss what it doesn’t do, and will never have. The best algorithms don’t have eyes. All the programmed logic in the world can’t respond to gut reactions. And cutting edge interface design doesn’t have years of experience.
If I can sum up why DJs shouldn’t fear any technological advance, and why human DJs will never be replaced, it would be this:
CODE DOESN’T FEEL
The human race is the biggest variable on the planet. Logic should apply in the form of common sense. But life throws so many additional variables at us on a daily basis that a decision made one day can easily be reversed the next. We wake up in a good or bad mood for no apparent reason, and that defines the whole day. We are in no way linear or predictable. Even with randomised variables, we are not subject to the rigid structures of conventional programming,
This can become apparent on a dance floor. That mashup you did last week that sent the crowd crazy could quite easily clear the floor this week because of variables that you’re just not aware of. Computers can’t see that, thus the human element is needed to react to other human elements.
If dancefloor=0 then… what? Where is your clever machine learning now? Nowhere without human input, either from someone monitoring the machine, or feedback from the floor. Imagine a “how was my mixing?” sticker on the Johnny Cab booth.
But are human DJs perfect? Of course not. And having played with different flavours of automix, I’d warrant that technically it’s likely to be more competent at beat matching than a good number of people who believe that they can actually mix. Indeed, while making the videos for djay Pro 2 and playing with Automix AI, I was neither scared or threatened, but seriously impressed at how well it works at this point. Back in the day, I’ve got away with far worse mixes than Automix AI managed to do when I threw an Acid House Spotify playlist at it. Lame codec audacity.
The anti-technology DJ sabre rattling has becoming rather tiresome. Each successive wave of technology is seen as the end of DJing, but what actually happens is a familiar process of hate, suspicion, curiosity, and then wide acceptance. And funnily enough, DJing hasn’t died at all. The bottom line is this — you don’t have to use it, but it’s there if you do.
And if you truly fear the rise of the DJ machines, don’t. As explained above, the human element is essential. If however your DJ software starts to question your mixing choice, or just plain overrules you, that’s the time to get all John Connor on your gear.