Must be a slow news month, this appears and has Reddit frothing.
If true that’s awesome but that GUI does look like it’s fan made.
Gimme standalone DVS for Engine DJ (too)! That would be a massive level up for all P4/4+ owners. No more subscription for the Serato club kit and maintaining two libraries.
As for the GUI, it resembles the early days of Engine Desktop a lot. The GUI design became more flat and sleek in the meantime, so I don’t think this is a legit, recent WIP screenshot. But who knows… certainly, very interesting. And it seems highly modular, which I like.
Having an own DJ software solution which works with Denon, Numark, Rane and maybe even some Akai products would certainly be the best answer for all that bs going on at AT and Serato, including their pricing policy. Even more, since Engine Desktop is already very import-friendly, so the entry barrier for newcomers / switchers would be low. Make it happen - fingers crossed.
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I’m just waiting for a new SCx000/M player, I gave up on DVS/performance software the day the SC5000 was released. I’m all in for standalone.
I agree on the import-friendly aspect of Denon, even a simple performance software could leverage more marketshare IMHO.
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I’m getting M-Audio Torq 2 vibes from this. That’s also owned by inMusic.
I’d say it’s not real or it was a concept that got canned. It looks very busy. Times have changed and software looks a lot more spacious now.
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Stop. I just forgot about Torq and now you bring it up LOL
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It’s also called “Engine” (without the ‘DJ’) and those stems don’t seem right. If I was to stem out music, I don’t think the parts would look like that.
“Decimator “ isn’t an effect and the whole appearance (as mentioned) looks a bit ‘3D’ and not flat.
“Elevating Mod Rise” and that out of place ‘Riser’ logo also is off. It’s definitely had elements of Traktor and a few others pasted into it.
Unless it’s a REALLY old demo they made.
Yep. …there are aspects of this that look familiar.
We need to “torq” about this! 
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They also own Deckadance too IIRC. That came with the Stanton purchase.
I thought Skeuomorphism died years ago too. 
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I had to search that!
I knew what it was but never knew that’s what it was called.
Every day is a school day.
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Hey, maybe Neumorphism might become an Engine DJ thing - who knows?
Also I miss the good old glossy style, before iOS7 and especially Win8 ruined everything for me.
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Nah…I just found a bigger image of it, using Google’s image search, and it’s clear that everything on the top bar has been pasted in - you can see the little squares.
Actually if you zoom in and brighten it up, there’s a lot of digital dirt around most of the text and icons.
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Aye. Also there is this:
Denon isn’t using this terminology for years now.
Still a cool mockup.
Which brings me to my “Prime X” project, which I haven’t presented yet. Took me hours to photoshop, but was fun (and without digital dirt/noise).
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Windows today is a complete 
show now with all of the bloatware. Makes windows 8 look heavenly 
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I’d say the keyboard shortcuts would require a PhD to learn let alone the interface 
Further examination - if you shift the colour palette with hue and saturation, the various parts that have been pasted in are all different colours, so come from different sources.
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Looks fake to me.
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Lol torq was my first dvs in 07 i think. I came off the sl dz 1200s and techs haha.
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It was about 2007 for me too. I had it a few months and grabbed Serato Scratch Live with an SL1 soon after.
Torq served me well but I’d had a taste of SSL so decided to jump in. When Torq 2 came out I wanted to use it and go back as SSL wasn’t very advanced at all. They charged quite a large fee for 2.0 and couldn’t justify it. They lost me forever after that.
Nice! It took me until about 09 to adopt serato with an sl3. I was a laggad and had a hard time giving up the quick scratch function Lol
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