The (paid) Beta for Deadmau5’s new DJ app with a producer slant has just gone live. Has some pretty cool forward thinking ideas implemented like arrangements and plugins. Fully midi / osc mappable. 16 Cues per track. Ableton Link for both midi clock and audio routing. I like the concept.
Older 1.5hr Alpha demo:
I think that naming any software aimed at a skills based / performance based activity “Auto” is going to stir up some negative feelings from those who have skills.
Adding “pilot” to it, also seems to suggest that a DJ is no longer required.
Hopefully people will look at its features, rather than its name. But perhaps a better , more enabling, name can be found
Interesting that it has an arrangement mode, which was what Atomix were touting as a feature (“timeline”) in early VDJ 8 demos in 2012.
Unfortunately they decided to remove it before release.
Also there was The Bridge by Serato/Ableton (2010).
Plugins? No problem for VirtualDJ - both VST and VSTi.
Ableton Link is already widely supported. VirtualDJ, Rekordbox, Traktor, Serato…
I just think the name is cause of his other project, Testpilot. He calls himself that when playing techno etc etc
Thats kind of egotistically sad.
Steve Stone (thedjlab) making another claim that this Deadmau5 software can do things “no other software can do” and that it’s a “gamechanger” blah blah blah…
That Steve Stone guy is the least logical dj information source ever… his approach to djing is just bad…
Mixmeisters was the go to for putting timelines together back then.
Seems this feature has now been removed by Deadmau5 - not much of a game changer after all. 