![]() These come into their own when you start using the loop functionality. For sure, the looping functionality is simple when compared with other apps and suitable only for quick, instant looping during track playback. The feature that made this app shine for me was the quantised beatgrids. After a quick email to the development team, it turned out that the answer is to press and hold the cue number button for a few seconds. Something that isn’t currently mentioned in the help is how to clear a stored cue point after it has been set. Cueing on the app is simple via the headphone button under the volume control, although of course, this will need a splitter cable to function.įinally, we come to the three stored cue points. (I enquired, and the development team is planning to implement this with a future update.)Īt the bottom of the screen is the crossfader with automix buttons at either side. It would be nice to see a tap on the sliders returning them to their zero position. This gets trickier to do when your pitch slider is positioned closer to the extremes. The pitch control is displayed further to the side and you’ll probably notice (like I did) that there’s no “pitch nudge” button as with most other apps (and indeed hardware devices).Īfter a quick referral to the in-app help, I found that to nudge the track faster or slower, just tap below or above the pitch slider. Underneath the waveforms, you get the gain and EQ slider controls, with the volume control to the side. Also, you’ll need the waveform scratch feature switched on if you want to carefully set a cue point. Personally, I found the discs to be better for quickly scrubbing through a track to find a specific point, and the waveforms great for quick spinbacks giving a decent simulation of the same action on a real turntable. ![]() DJ Dex main screen – the brushed metal look is back! However, if you really want to give it a go you can try using the small discs or you can switch on waveform scratch capability. The circular discs rotate during playback like on many DVS interfaces this is probably more useful if you’ve connected the iPad to a USB Midi controller.Īs we’ve discussed before, any form of scratching on a flat touchscreen interface is unlikely to be rewarding. The interface is well laid out, with centre stage being taken by two upward-scrolling waveforms and their beatgrids, with a narrow progress line (in grey) on the outside and another narrow line showing the output levels on the inside. Some basic track data is displayed at the top of the screen, including artist name, track title and time remaining. If you don’t understand a piece of functionality, the in-app help window (via the question mark button near the top left) will usually answer any question quickly. The first thing that strikes you about the app is that everything you need is on one page, which makes it a simple process to load up a track on each deck to start. With other leading software teams already firmly established on iPad devices, and more definitely following, today we look at how DJ Dex fares in this increasingly crowded arena. The long-time development team behind the PCDJ suite of DJ software for the PC and Mac has recently launched an iPad-only app called DJ Dex, borrowing some of its interface style from the company’s PCDJ Dex product.
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