In the UK we have a Facebook group for UK charts, mainly for function DJs they ask members what they play then compile charts of the most popular songs by category.
They recently had a poll on what software people use to play out at gigs and here are the results. I voted for VDJ as I didn’t have the Prime Go+ at the time and now I do I only use it for the very odd gig with VDJ still being used for the majority of my work.
Reason I’m posting this is that it’s not one of those big multinational surveys that could be skewed, this is genuine from UK DJs.
Seems Engine still has a bit of work to do in catching up then. In all fairness the placement is pretty much where I would have seen it myself.
…but Engine is not DJ software, in the same way as the others - for performance.
I know it IS possible to hook it up to your Prime kit and play from it, but that only came about after requests from people saying that “Rekordbox does it”.
It also baffles me why people buy a system designed to be used standalone…then use it as a controller.
VDJ for the win, of course. Bear mind as well, that the main competition is from software which gets bundled with hardware products.
Comparing EDJ to other performance apps is not helpful at all. I don’t know why people do that and why they spend thousands of dollars on devices that do a fantastic job on their own and tether themselves to a laptop.
“Catching up” in the imaginary race that people on the internet like to fathom up… or just carry on offering an alternative product for people who want to explore outside the other brand? #
Why does everything have to be tagged into a competition?
I think the people responding are using Engine OS devices for playout and you’ve misinterpreted the poll. I don’t think the Engine DJ laptop software is the result, it’s Engine in general.
Pardon but I think you’re just being pedantic. You know fine well those results are people using Prime 4, Prime Go etc. with the “software” embedded on the players.
Why do companies spend millions on market research, because they want to get ahead of the competition and gain a bigger market share. That’s how business works.
I think your heart is in the right place for posting the above for sure.
One would hope that InMusic (as many of (possibly hundreds of) millions of dollars that they have at their disposal) would hire actual market research companies (Gartner, etc.) over random “trust me bro” polls used in highly isolated social media environments.
No I don’t - and neither do you. The poll was about software. The poll uses the words “Playout Software”. All the other items on the list are software.
Based on those facts, either the people voting for Engine are referring to the desktop software, or they’re voting for their hardware (incorrectly).
I only posted these results as a genuine guide to the use of Engine but it seems you get ripped apart by pedantic people on this forum for just posting something.
Think I’ll be toning down my contributions as it isn’t as friendly a place as I had hoped for.
No it’s a genuine response. If people would vote because of EngineOS, then they also would vote using RekordBox OS.
If that’s not the case, this poll is kinda nonsense.
We’ve seen these polls before and the outcome is similar so “the general place” is about right nonetheless.
I bet most of the RB votes are people who use it bundled with a controller too, the DDJ-400 is widely seen as the most common controller on the market. I know at least 5 people who bought one for casual messing about with after trying to ‘get back into it’ in their 40s.
As I pointed out, the people who took part in the poll are all working DJs in the UK, not random boomers messing about in their bedroom.
I read it as “Denon Engine” equals the use of Engine DJ and OS together, the same as people using Rekordbox both as control software and with the embedded OS.
In a way I’m not really surprised by this ranking… in the UK…
It’s not surprising to see Virtual DJ take first place especially if the survey was conducted on a group more oriented towards “mobile DJs”
If it was a group where the dominant DJs were club DJs, I think Rekordbox would certainly come out on top, followed by Serato, and Virtual DJ would certainly only be in 3rd position.
So I want to say that we have to contextualize the results of this survey according to the profile of DJs that make up this sample of people.
For example, the Engine ecosystem is increasingly popular with mobile DJs, events, bars, weddings. But it is still difficult to penetrate the scene of club/festival DJs where alphatheta/Pioneer/Rekordbox continues to dominate the place. Although it is progressing little by little in clubs, especially small clubs that have fewer means.
Virtual DJ is an extremely versatile software for mobile or event DJs, capable of mixing audio, video, karaoke and in addition to that it is plug & play compatible with more than 500 controllers/hardware while most competing software is in a closed ecosystem or very restricted with little native support.
The results of such a survey would probably be different if it were carried out in France. Here Virtual Dj still has this image of an amateur/beginner/bedroom DJ product. Although it is the most powerful and efficient of all, it is still considered by many as a toy, as a software that is not serious, not professional, and if you play with it you are not considered credible. Mentalities die hard.
So you would probably see a lot more French DJs here citing Serato first, then rekordbox, just to appear more credible in the eyes of their peers.
