Hands-on follow-up: Touch DJ for iPhone
Jan 6, 2010 phones, tweetmeme, twitter
Holy moley – what is it with iPhone apps recently? Suddenly they seem to rich person transitioned from simple, unity-manipulation oddities, in to fully-fledged killer apps! Case in point: Touch DJ, by Amidio. Now I posted on the liberation of the app, but had not had a chance to swordplay with it – until now that is!
[note: some of the pursuit price mightiness seem a act extraterrestrial being to you if you've not DJ'd before, but don't be put off from meter reading - it's distillery a very good app indeed]
So here is the main UI for Touch DJ, which as you can see, differs from those iPhone apps that choose to manipulation iPhone UI elements/buttons/etc. Amidio rich person elect to customise heavily, because (a) they wanted to pack in a lot of functionality and (b) there’s a draw that goes in to the components of a full 2-channel mix desk setup for DJing.
Above, you tin see the waveform of two tracks (one amobarbital sodium, one reddish blue), scrolling bottom to circus tent, and a long ton of whatchamacallit going on around them. All of these buttons (some obvious, some not so much) spring relevant functions whilst you are in the mix, but the key matter is the scrolling tracks that are playing back – imagine you rich person 2 conveyor belts that you motivation to get running at the same speeding – moreover, imagine that you motivation them running at the same speed, AND each bass drumfish kick mustiness be synchronised too (displayed as a wider line in the upright stack) – this is the perfume of rhythm-matching.
Once your tunes ar run at the same speed, and with bass voice kicks aligned, you can barter between them, and ‘go in the mix’! However, because there is only one audio yield on the iPhone, you need a means to exercise set up the tune that isn’t acting out live, to be at the same speeding/sync – this is where the conception of visual mixing comes in – and hence the waveforms!
Now, as a traditional ex-DJ myself, who has used Vinyl and CD decks, the conception was open, but I have to admit there’s a acquisition curve here – however that hasn’t stopped the hordes of people on iTunes giving this a positive review – and I’m confident with a bit more time I could get things down feather perfectly also.
The UI is packed-in, but well organised – everything you could need (nudge, speeding up/down feather, volume, EQ, FX, load track, intermission/swordplay, FWD/REV, and so on!) are all there on screen, for BOTH ‘decks’ or ‘channels’ – the all-important cross-fader is the block you can see at the top of the blind
There ar also a couple of buttons that pulling up panel overlays, with a stack MORE features on – including sample banks, and social networking features (see photograph above). The other pop music-up is for payload tracks:
It’s quite awesome indeed how much has been fitted in to the UI, and I guess my only rebuff critique (from having been in live mix situations) is that things mightiness be a little too small in some cases – particularly if you ar in a darkened way with flash lights! This is the main understanding wherefore DJ kit manufacturers manipulation big old buttons on their computer hardware
Overall then, after some brief usage, I’m enjoying the app, and look forward to bashing out some hot mixes!
Verdict: very good now, likely to be excellent in the near future!
Touch DJ / Ј11.99 [iTunes link]
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