# Auto / Pilot - New DJ Software by Deadmau5
**URL:** https://community.enginedj.com/t/auto-pilot-new-dj-software-by-deadmau5/70304
**Category:** General Area
**Tags:** software
**Created:** [August 6, 2026, 1:45pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/auto-pilot-new-dj-software-by-deadmau5/70304 "2026-08-06T13:45:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Ostroff](https://community.enginedj.com/u/Andrew_Ostroff)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2026, 1:45pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/auto-pilot-new-dj-software-by-deadmau5/70304/1 "2026-08-06T13:45:26Z")
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.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksD65Flmrb0)
Older 1.5hr Alpha demo:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2lwxhFPPDI&t=2s)
> **[AUTO/PILOT](https://oscpilot.com/products/auto-pilot)**
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> AUTO/PILOT Public Beta is here.AUTO/PILOT is a performance focused DJ platform built for creative mixing, live arrangements, sampling, MIDI/OSC control, native effects, and deeply customizable workflows. It brings decks, sequencing, automation, and...
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### Author:  [@Pasha](https://community.enginedj.com/u/Pasha)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2026, 10:17am UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/auto-pilot-new-dj-software-by-deadmau5/70304/2 "2026-08-07T10:17:58Z")
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
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### Author:  [@PKtheDJ](https://community.enginedj.com/u/PKtheDJ)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2026, 11:36am UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/auto-pilot-new-dj-software-by-deadmau5/70304/3 "2026-08-07T11:36:06Z")
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…
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### Author:  [@Petrichor](https://community.enginedj.com/u/Petrichor)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2026, 7:03pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/auto-pilot-new-dj-software-by-deadmau5/70304/4 "2026-08-07T19:03:04Z")
I just think the name is cause of his other project, Testpilot. He calls himself that when playing techno etc etc
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### Author:  [@Pasha](https://community.enginedj.com/u/Pasha)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2026, 7:51pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/auto-pilot-new-dj-software-by-deadmau5/70304/5 "2026-08-07T19:51:12Z")
Thats kind of egotistically sad.
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### Author:  [@PKtheDJ](https://community.enginedj.com/u/PKtheDJ)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2026, 9:35am UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/auto-pilot-new-dj-software-by-deadmau5/70304/6 "2026-10-04T09:35:43Z")
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…
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxUCWUDlGRY)
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### Author:  [@NoiseRiser](https://community.enginedj.com/u/NoiseRiser)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2026, 11:04am UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/auto-pilot-new-dj-software-by-deadmau5/70304/7 "2026-10-04T11:04:34Z")
That Steve Stone guy is the least logical dj information source ever… his approach to djing is just bad…
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### Author:  [@Myalteredsoul](https://community.enginedj.com/u/Myalteredsoul)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2026, 6:14pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/auto-pilot-new-dj-software-by-deadmau5/70304/8 "2026-10-04T18:14:15Z")
Mixmeisters was the go to for putting timelines together back then.
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### Author:  [@PKtheDJ](https://community.enginedj.com/u/PKtheDJ)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2026, 3:42pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/auto-pilot-new-dj-software-by-deadmau5/70304/9 "2026-10-06T15:42:08Z")
Seems this feature has now been removed by Deadmau5 - not much of a game changer after all. 🤣