Which Software?

[Parysatis]

Hi,

I use Engine DJ as a library software for the preparation of tracks and the curation of my collection. Additionally, I analyse the key by ear with a keyboard synth … I love Engine DJ a lot and I have even used it as a performance software once:

Engine DJ as a performance software

Hejsan it has often been said that Engine DJ is for preparation only. But a few days ago it was just too hot, carrying around vinyl records at 33° C is not fun, so I took my laptop with me instead and used Engine DJ in Dual Decks mode for mixing, which worked really nicely. From the laptop the USB audio went into my Roland MX-1 mixer, which offers some effects and a mysterious (but actually cool) mastering, and from there I send the audio into the Xone mixer of the locat…

I use rekordbox only if I have to, in the case that I know that I will be using Pioneer equipment. I select tracks in Engine DJ, copy them, convert them down to 16 bit with 44.1 kHz in Audacity and sometimes even to wav format — because old Pioneer gear often cannot read high quality flac files — , and then I drop them into rekordbox for minimal analysis and export a playlist to USB … I do not like rekordbox so much … the limits of file format compatibility was, what brought me to Denon DJ instead of Pioneer DJ. And I prefer the futuristic look of Denon DJ gear, I love everything that looks like it’s been invented in a Borg cube …

Other software that I have used in the past: Serato and Mixed in Key … but now I use only Engine DJ. The software mp3tag is very useful too.